Sarova Stanley Menu & More About the Hotel

This post is about several eateries at The New Stanley Hotel Nairobi (or as it is now officially called, The Sarova Stanley).

Since many of you come to this post looking specifically for the Sarova Stanley Menu prices, I will begin there.

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The Sarova Menu

The Sarova Stanley has 4 eateries where you can have a meal:

• The Thorn Tree Cafe, on the ground floor,
• Tai Chi, a Thai Restaurant, and The Exchange Bar, on the first floor, and 
• The Pool Deck Restaurant, on the 5^th floor.

This post contains menus for each of these 4 eateries.

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Sarova Stanley Nairobi Menu: Thorn Tree Cafe Menu

See the Thorn Tree Café menu here.

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Sarova Stanley Menu Prices/Sarova Hotel Food Menu: Thai-Chi

Stanley Hotel Menu: Pool Deck Restaurant Beverage List

The Pool Deck Restaurant on the Sarova Stanley’s fifth floor usually has a buffet service, though it may also have an à la carte service with changing menu. Here is the beverage list for that restaurant though.

Sarova Stanley Menu Prices PDF

Tamarind Tree Hotel Menu

You can find the menu for Tamambo at Tamarind Tree Hotel here.

Sarova Stanley Hotel Nairobi/New Stanley Hotel Nairobi

Located at the heart of Nairobi’s central business district, the Sarova Stanley offers you a way to really get a feel of the pulse of Nairobi.

A historical hotel closely tied to the origins of Nairobi as a city (the hotel has existed since 1902 and was Nairobi’s first luxury hotel), the Sarova Stanley offers a lot of old-world charm but also everything you would expect from a modern-day 5-star hotel.

Despite it being so centrally located in noisy Nairobi, the silence achieved in the luxuriously decorated rooms is amazing! I had one of the best night’s sleep of my LIFE(!) at the Sarova Stanley.

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The Thorn Tree Cafe (Nairobi, Kenya)
The Sarova Stanley
Tel: +254-(20)-316377

Sarova Hotels Renovates a Hotel with Lots of History

Almost two decades ago, Sarova Hotels renovated The New Stanley in Nairobi and renamed it The Sarova Stanley.

I don’t know that I really had an opinion of the hotel when it was The New Stanley. What I know for sure is that I like the hotel as it is now!

I often enjoy sitting at the elegant first-floor Exchange Bar (the location of Nairobi’s first Stock Exchange), looking out onto the busy street or just enjoying the quiet, chic atmosphere while catching up with family and/or friends.

Any talk of The Sarova Stanley would not be complete without mention of The Thorn Tree Café, Sarova Stanley’s open-air pavement brasserie/bistro-style cafe.

Built around an actual thorn tree (the original  existing as early as 1959), The Thorn Tree Café, over the years, served as a message board for settlers from various parts of Kenya.

Today, the thorn tree at The Thorn Tree Cafe Nairobi still has a message board that can be used for messaging, though I’m sure travelers leave messages there more to emulate the past than out of a real need to communicate.

Whatever the case, I always enjoy reading these messages whenever I am at The Thorn Tree.

Today, however, I would like to discuss the cafe’s merits as an eatery rather than as a historical establishment.

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The Thorn Tree Café Nairobi

I go to The Sarova Stanley often enough. Usually, I spend most of my time inside the hotel, though, rarely going to the cafe outside.

My experience of the cafe is limited, for the most part, to going there as a little girl with my mother or my aunt and later, as a young woman, passing the cafe on my way home.

On those evenings, the beautiful music playing there would always  beckon me. I would instantly make a mental note to visit it soon.

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I recently got an opportunity to visit The Thorn Tree Café again when a friend’s mother suggested that we meet there for a late lunch.

I made my way to the cafe around 4 p.m.

As usual, the tasteful decor and the Sarova Hotels’ welcoming staff were there to greet me. What did not impress me that day was the food I ate.

I chose to have Pita Pockets with Grilled Vegetables, Hummus, and Olives because I had been to the gym earlier in the day and didn’t want to undo my previous efforts.

I was sure that this would be both a healthy and delicious option.

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Photo Credits: preferredhotelgroup.com;  Sarova Hotels website; PBase