Tuku to dine at Garwe on Valentine’s Day

Living legend Oliver Mtukudzi and Picky Kasamba 

Garwe Restaurant, an enterprising eating house offering Zimbabwean traditional cuisine has engaged superstar musician, Oliver Mtukudzi for a memorable Valentines dinner on February 14. Tuku is well-known for his famous love song Svovi Yangu. Tuku’s unwavering union and love of wife Daisy can be testimony that the hit maker sings from the heart. 

Mandy Bvukwe, Garwe Restaurant owner said: “Come to Garwe and experience the pangs of your first love, be reminded of the first days by the food that used to be served in your mother’s kitchen and music from Zimbabwe’s great musician.” A comedian would be present to spice up the evening with adult jokes. 

Bvukwe said preparations for the big day of celebrating love are at an advanced stage. Located in Eastlea, Garwe Restaurant has become an eating and meeting point of senior company executives, ministers, government officials and other notables within society. With huge gazebos and paths that lead to different little places under lush trees, the joint offers an escape from the bustling city albeit only just four kilometres away. 

Mandy Bvukwe, Garwe Restaurant owner said: “This place offers a different setting for one to enjoy food and drink than in the city. “We are bringing in Tuku this Valentine’s Day, to offer mature couples a moment to share their love with good music and authentic cuisine.”  Winner of the best restaurant offering authentic cuisine at the Tourism awards in 2011, Garwe Restaurant offers 23 African dishes enjoyed across the country. 

“We offer a variety of foods on our menu, all drawn from different parts of the country.“We obtain our foodstuffs straight from the source in rural areas where crops are grown and animals reared in their natural state,” said Bvukwe. She said her restaurant engages with Members of Parliament from rural areas from whom the restaurant buys traditional food stuffs and livestock, hence providing a regular source of income to villagers. 

Valentine’s Day menu includes mouth-watering dishes including a starter of Cream of Msasa woodland mushroom soup and the main course selection include mazondo (cow hooves), chicken road runner, maguru nematumbu(tripe and offal) , popular mkwepete, hanga, biltong in peanut butter, oxtail and tsuro.

The food would be served with white sadza, rice nedovi (rice and peanut butter), sadza rezviyo (millet) and mhunga (sorghum). The menu is accompanied with exciting love notes like for guru nematumbu, ‘‘I am made up of everything; I mean all the qualities of a perfect lover” and for chicken road runner, “we have been bonded, so let us never be separated, Solo naMutsai."

Two options of dessert, tropical fruit salad and ice cream and home-brewed mahewu. The desserts are accompanied with a message saying, “after a long and tiresome day, you come home to my delicate arms, a cold glass of mahewu and any of the dishes from my kitchen, but above all, I cool you down so you can wake up tomorrow and toil for the family.”

Bvukwe said it would be a red carpet event with couples expected to be in their top element in dress. Instant prizes would be won based on the best-dressed couple and other exciting aspects that will enable couples to win something. A number of functions are lined up this Valentine’s Day but none boast of having the superstar Tuku performing. Tickets for the event are almostrunning out and can be obtained at the popular Restaurant on Donald Macdonald Road Eastlea. (Dailynews)