Meza Malonga, a restaurant in Rwanda's capital Kigali, serves innovative Afro-fusion cuisine. Chef Dieuveil Malonga opened it in 2020, after years of working in high-end European restaurants.
in Kigali, Rwanda, there's no chocolate river, but there is an entire wall full of seeds, spices and fermented fruits in wide-mouthed glass jars. Malonga calls this his laboratory. It bursts with elements ripe for experimentation. Baobab from Tanzania. Black lemon from Egypt."The base of the cuisine," Malonga calls it.
Standing in his laboratory, it's full of what feels like collective work. There's nobody yelling,"Yes chef!" and Malonga pointedly refers to"project." His longest employee is Frank Buhigiro, who says"the way we work is like we are like family. You know, we don't have pressure because we get time to think and create."The restaurant is only open for eight months out of the year. For the other four months, Malonga and his team travel the continent.
Malonga wants to carve out a space for African food in the global fine dining scene. Something he thinks is increasingly possible based on how people travel. Now, he says, people book trips not based on where they sleep, but where they eat.Meza Malonga's main mission is to promote the ingredients and cuisines within Africa.
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