KAMPALA CONNOISSEUR FESTIVAL OR CHAMPAGNE BREAKFAST OR BOTH?
(Posted 03rd August 2014)
At noon today will this year’s ‘Kampala-Lite’s Connoisseur Festival’ kick off at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel Lion Centre and Gardens. This now regular event on the socialite’s calendar in Kampala is a sign of the Ugandan capital progressively emerging from the culinary dark days, a good sign for visitors to the country looking for those special local events to really get to know the destination beyond just gorillas tracking, safaris and outdoor adventures.
Co-sponsored by NO. 49 Cheese and Wine – itself now getting known for their regular evening events of cheese and wine tasting – and the Kampala Music School, among others, does the day out promise to be a feast for palate and ears. Traudel Reich from the Munich Philharmonics will perform alongside the Kampala Philharmonic Orchestra – yes Uganda has that too now – the KMS Jazz Bank, the M-Lisada Brass Band and others while NO. 49 will allow for the sampling of their finest wines and cheeses, which are now produced in the region and come from Kenya and the Ugandan highlands, home of the proverbial ‘milk and honey’. Time to put on the Sunday best, hats and all, and go to the Kampala Sheraton to see and be seen.
Meanwhile have those who would like to start their culinary Sunday campaign already at breakfast time the newly launched option of a champagne breakfast at the Patisserie’s Acacia Mall branch, where starting this weekend, from 07.00 hrs to 11.00 hrs delicatessen are served and can be washed down with a glass of bubbly, chocolate croissants and other fine pastries included of course.
Still wondering what one can do on a Sunday while on business or leisure in Uganda’s capital city? There are your answers, sophistication has truly now arrived at ‘The Pearl of Africa’ and today offers so much more than ‘just gorillas’ for tourists coming to explore the country.
Uganda now has daily international flights from key European and Gulf airports by such known brands like Brussels Airlines, KLM, BA, Turkish, Egypt Air, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian, Emirates and Qatar Airways, joined in early 2015 by Etihad. For more destination information visit www.theeye.co.ug, www.guide2uganda.com or click on the tourism board’s link www.visituganda.com
