More on Airline Food, and Nescafe

Although there are numerous good restaurants in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, for some reason I haven't felt compelled to blog about them on this trip. I will say that if dining in Dar, try Zuane, a new Italian restaurant near the Slipway, and Addis in Dar, located near the US Embassy.  The latter left my fingers smelling of delicious Ethiopian spices for 24 hours after the meal, surely a good sign, right? 

What I am compelled to blog about is airline food.  Further proof to my theory... On Saturday I flew from Tanzania to Kenya, a brief one-hour flight with gorgeous views of Mt. Kilimanjaro.  A one-hour flight in the US=peanuts/pretzels and a soda, with cursory service at that.  Not on Kenya Airways.  On KQ we got actual food.  It was a small snack, but tasty, healthy, and it actually resembled food (a pita pocket with grilled chicken).  And, they served alcohol.  In fact, the folks in the row in front of me were boozing it up with whiskey/Cokes.  And lest I forget, they actually passed out handt owels before the flight took off (which was nice since my fingers still smelled of Ethiopian food).

Lastly, a word about coffee.  Coffee is very important to me, and although I do not have the most discriminating or snobbish taste in coffee, I do like a well-prepared cup.  So it is perhaps a tad painful to think of drinking instant coffee.  But here in the land of great coffee, Nescafe is quite common, and in anything less than the fanciest establishment often the only choice.  And I really like it. Is instant coffee so delicious in the US and I've just been missing out because of my coffee prejudices?  Time to find out, I will let you know.