{"id":641,"date":"2010-08-02T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/641"},"modified":"2010-08-02T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:25:00","slug":"the-cave-diani-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"The Cave (Diani, Kenya)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rating: <\/p>\n

To celebrate Vid\u2019s birthday last night, we had dinner at the fanciest restaurant in town – The Cave. The restaurant is set inside two chambers of a natural coral cave that is open to the sky. While mildly gimmicky, the setting is really interesting, and the tasteful lighting added to the romantic atmosphere. <\/p>\n

We started off with some of the house red, which was a surprisingly good cabernet-shiraz. We tried to order a few things that we thought Vid would order if she were with us in person rather than just in spirit. For appetizers we had the soup of the day (cucumber-mint), and a goat cheese tart. The soup turned out to be hot, which was unexpected, but it was enjoyable with primary flavors of chicken broth and cucumber (I couldn\u2019t detect the mint). The goat cheese tart tasted like a frozen quiche from Trader Joe\u2019s. I like TJ\u2019s, but at Seattle-level prices I was expecting (at least a smidge) better. <\/p>\n

On to the main course, with higher prices and greater disappointments. Little Vid\u2019s mushroom crepes tasted much better than their caterpillar-like presentation. They were very cheesy, with lots of mushrooms inside. While it reminded me of upscale diner food, it was still satisfying. Our \u201cpan-seared catch of the day drizzled with homemade pesto\u201d was a breaded and fried tasteless brick that was doused in green lines of goo. We couldn\u2019t bring ourselves to finish it. Given the mediocre results for dinner, we passed on dessert, but fortunately we had already satisfied our sweet tooth with a pre-dinner scoop of mango-coconut ice cream at Kenyaways (as Vid would have done).<\/p>\n

Overall, The Cave has nice atmosphere, and the bar area would be a lovely place to have a glass of wine. However you should plan on going elsewhere for dinner, as the food is forgettable and very expensive.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Cave\u2019s main dining room<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Lighting\"<\/a>
Mood lighting<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>
Little Vid was also surprised by the average-ness of her appetizer<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>
Main course: mushroom crepes<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Forgettable<\/a>
Veering away from the vegetarian side was not well-rewarded, this fish was terrible<\/em><\/p>\n

Ali Barbour\u2019s Cave Restaurant<\/a> (a.k.a. The Cave)
Diani, Kenya
+254 (0)40-320-2033<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rating: To celebrate Vid\u2019s birthday last night, we had dinner at the fanciest restaurant in town – The Cave. The restaurant is set inside two chambers of a natural coral cave that is open to the sky. While mildly gimmicky, the setting is really interesting, and the tasteful lighting added to the romantic atmosphere. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,89,47,51,56,68],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-diani","tag-food","tag-kenya","tag-little-vid","tag-mombasa","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}