{"id":484,"date":"2008-03-14T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-03-14T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T11:30:58","slug":"basilico-pizzeria-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/03\/basilico-pizzeria-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Basilico Pizzeria (Nairobi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon we went to lunch to Basilico, a pizzeria a the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaya-centre.co.ke\/\">Ya Ya Center<\/a> in Hurlingham.  My colleagues wanted to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2008\/03\/osteria_del_chainti_nairobi.html\">Osteria del Chianti<\/a>, but I&#8217;d just been there Monday night AND Wednesday night, and there has to be a limit at how often one patronizes a restaurant!  Plus it&#8217;s not like I like their food that much.<br \/>\nSo when Gabriel, a colleague from work, suggested that there was an Italian place at the Ya Ya Center, and Brianna (my boss) said it was OK with her, I was quite happy.  And indeed, I had a pretty good eating experience.<br \/>\nBasilico is your typical shopping mall deli-style restaurant, don&#8217;t expect much in the way of ambiance here.  But it&#8217;s cute enough.  It offers sandwiches, pizzas, pastas and a few main dishes.  But being an Italian place I decided to go for the pasta.  I had fusilli (I think) with a tomato mushroom-prosciutto sauce.  It was quite good, just the sort of hearty Italian pasta I like.  The pasta itself was not cooked al dente (it wasn&#8217;t soft either), which was a big plus for me.<br \/>\nGabriel was less happy with his pasta with a gorgonzola cream sauce.  He&#8217;d had it before and he&#8217;d enjoyed it, or maybe he misremembered.  Brianna had nothing bad to say about her fish &#038; chips, and as someone who has hang out in London quite a bit, that&#8217;s probably a high recommendation.<br \/>\nPrices were in the mid hundreds, my pasta, for example, was Ks. 600 &#8211; $9.  Outrageously expensive if you ask me, but that&#8217;s the name of the game in Nairobi.<br \/>\nBasilico<br \/>\nYa Ya Center<br \/>\nLenana Road<br \/>\nNairobi<br \/>\n0721 618886<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon we went to lunch to Basilico, a pizzeria a the Ya Ya Center in Hurlingham. My colleagues wanted to go to Osteria del Chianti, but I&#8217;d just been there Monday night AND Wednesday night, and there has to be a limit at how often one patronizes a restaurant! Plus it&#8217;s not like I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}