The Beginning
Born in a Zanzibar Spice Market
Spice Route was founded in 2018 by Chef Amina Rashid and restaurateur David Kimaro with a singular belief: that the cuisines of East Africa — from the coastal Swahili kitchen to the highland cattle cultures of the interior — deserved serious culinary attention.
Amina grew up in Stone Town, Zanzibar, surrounded by the aromas of cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom that had drawn traders from Arabia, India, and Persia for centuries. After training in Paris and staging at restaurants in Cape Town and Nairobi, she returned to Tanzania with a mission.
"I wanted to create a restaurant where every ingredient told a story — where a guest could taste the Indian Ocean in a dish, or understand the highlands through a single spice." — Chef Amina
