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Bulawayo’s The Coach House at the Nesbitt Castle Hotel has consistently enjoyed excellent reviews and scores, and a Five Plate Rating since 2006, but has not quite been able to pip Makuwa-Kuwa to the post as Deluxe Restaurant of the Year. Happily, its time for glory has now come!
Well-deserving of recognition for its outstanding and very unusual dining experience in a unique baronial style castle setting, with superb service and food, The Coach House has won the Award of Excellence for 2009.
The several different reviewers sent to check out the Coach House over the years have consistently raved about the meals, the service, the spectacularly unusual setting, and the ambience created both by this and by the sense which this restaurant is renowned for instilling in its clientèle — that one is being treated practically like royalty and throughout their dining experience, is really special.
The Coach House have delivered this unique, outstanding dining experience regardless of economic woes and challenges. With a new award, the Most Imaginative Dining Experience, going to three-times winner of the Award of Excellence, The Boma in Vic Falls, the judges settled upon the task of identifying its new recipient, and found none better than The Coach House, considered well deserving of this high accolade for consistently delivering such excellence and scoring so highly for the full duration of the Zim on a Plate awards to date.
The Castle itself was built in around 1905 by Theodore Holdengarde, an early mayor of Bulawayo, as something of a gothic “folly”— a building constructed purely decoration, but suggestive of some other purpose — and indeed, what could be more incongruous than an English fortified castle in Matabeleland?! With medieval architecture and spacious, beautifully maintained grounds, the Nesbitt Castle sets the scene for a baronial-style feast in The Coach House.
The Nesbitt family restored this amazing building and surrounds in 1988 and now, it is a venue for fairytale weddings, romantic honeymoons, conferences and fabulous, memorable dining experiences. Hearty congratulations to the Nesbitt Castle team!
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