Where Kenyans feel at 'home' abroad

Patrons laugh heartily cuddling various bottles of their favourite drinks. From Tequilla to Bud Lite, Budweiser, Heineken and even our own Tusker Export. They catch up with news and events thousands of kilometres away from home and engage in serious, light and even boisterous discussion after one too many.

Safari DC Restaurant

and that of his family, including his Kenyan relatives, are plastered all over the walls. Other heroes whose pictures have pride of place on the walls include Martin Luther King, Tom Mboya, Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah.Mukabane went to the US in

1978 and did odd jobs to support himself. Later, he did a course in classical French cuisine and worked for various hotels in

Washington DC as an executive chef. "Although I cooked good food in big hotels, I always missed the kind of food my mother used to

cook and I realised many East Africans felt the same way, so I convinced Alice to open this restaurant