Distant Relatives Ecolodge & Backpackers
Backlit bar at golden hour, glasses catching the light

TasteGarden-grown, wood-fired, slow-cooked

Most of dinner walked here. Wood-fired pizza, Swahili-coast seafood, and the herbs from the bed outside the kitchen door.

Where We Eat

Four spaces, one kitchen

The kitchen feeds the whole lodge from one fire-built corner — but the rooms it feeds are different. Breakfast under the cashew trees, lunch by the pool, sunset cocktails at the bar, dinner in the open dining hall.

Garden breakfast under the cashew trees

Slow mornings, garden eggs

Breakfast

Coffee, fruit, fresh bread, garden eggs, sometimes a coconut from the tree out back. Served until 10am, included with all rooms.

Wood-fired pizza fresh from the oven

Pizza, pasta, vegetables from the bed

Wood-Fired Kitchen

Our pizza oven runs hot most nights. Vegetables come from the garden, mozzarella from a small dairy in Naivasha, sourdough from our own starter.

Fresh Swahili-coast seafood plated for dinner

Seafood, the way Kilifi makes it

Swahili Coast

Whole grilled snapper, prawn pilau, coconut curry, kachumbari. The seafood comes off the dhows in Kilifi town that morning.

Aperitivo on the deck before dinner

Cocktails, conversation, sundown

The Bar

A small bar with a long view. Local rum, garden cocktails, cold Tuskers, and the occasional impromptu DJ set under thatch.