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Karibu, lovely friends. The oysters are baking & the sun is going down.

Swiss-French kitchen · Kilifi Creek

Move around · see the evening

Fresh from the creek
& full of sun

Like a small European bistro that washed up on the Kenyan coast. Pietro cooks, Lesley looks after you, and the menu is short on purpose: baked oysters by the dozen, prawns in his sauces, the catch of the day and a cold glass while the light goes.

Baked oysters on banana leaves with lime

Oysters, baked

Prawn cocktail and soup with hibiscus flowers

Prawns & sauces

The chef holding a tray of baked oysters

Straight from the kitchen

Wine bottles against the sunset

A glass at sunset

16:50An evening on the old pier
16:50
Stone steps down through the trees

Down the stone steps

17:00
The blue-railed walkway to the thatch

The blue rail

17:05
The deck over the creek with a shell

A shell on the boards

17:10
The red menu on a gingham cloth

The red menu

17:15
Wine being poured

Something cold first

17:40
Baked oysters

A dozen, baked

17:45
The chef with a tray of oysters

Another tray

18:12
The sun setting over the creek

The sun goes into the creek

19:30
The restaurant under the thatch at night

Fairy lights

Same evening.
New home.

Everything here is packed and moving up the road to Seahorse Road.

Kilifi Creek with the new Nautilus being built on the shore

We are moving house

The Old Ferry pierwhere it began
Seahorse Roadopening soon
Near Kilifi Maghreb HotelKilifi

Same kitchen, same cloths, same shell. A new home on the creek.

Follow the move

Your
Table

The deck at sunset, inside under the thatch, or wherever Lesley thinks best. Ask now and we hold your evening for the opening.

02 · La Carte

La Carte

Cooked by Pietro. Short, fresh and changed by what the boats bring in.

De la mer

From the sea

Huîtres gratinéesCreek oysters, baked, with lime½ dozen · dozen
GambasPrawns in one of Pietro's sauceson the day
Cocktail de crevettesPrawns, pink sauce, warm breadon the day
Le poisson du jourThe catch, however it came inask Lesley

Et aussi

And also

RavioliMade in the kitchenon the day
EntrecôteFor the one at the table who doesn't eat fishon the day

La cave

The cellar

Vin blanc, vin rougeBy the glass or the bottle, cold for the sunsetby the glass

Sample card built from guests' reviews and Nautilus photos. Pietro's real carte and prices go here.

Table with the red Nautilus menu

The red menu

Wine being poured

Something cold first

A table by the rail over the creek

Table by the rail

03 · The Move

Moving house

From the pier at the Old Ferry to Seahorse Road, near Kilifi Maghreb Hotel. Here is where we are.

The creek and the new building
01

The Old Ferry pier

The boards over the water, the blue rail, the thatch and the fairy lights. Where you first found us.

02

Building on Seahorse Road

The new home is under construction near Kilifi Maghreb Hotel. Photos from the build go here as it grows.

03

Opening night

Date to come. Everyone on the opening list hears it first, on WhatsApp.

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04 · Reservation

Your Table

Pick an evening and a seat. Lesley confirms your table on WhatsApp.

Where
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05 · Contact

Find us

Seahorse Road, near Kilifi Maghreb Hotel. Opening soon.

Call

0713 762748

0724 341034

Write

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