Places to be: Gaborone has noteably two big malls where some popular restaurants, pubs, coffice houses are located. Well for 193,000 people it is not bad. The malls are Game City and Riverwalk. Night life has very much changed recently as a result of this deveopment. Busy night out revolves around these two malls that have good cinema houses, pubs and restaurants. This is besides other nightly activities in the two main Hotels with Casino Gaborone Sun and Grand Palm. As of restaurant they open fast and closed with the same speed

Game City Mall : Newly built mall with few pubs and restaurants.

Popular Pubs & Restaurants here

O'Hagan's (Irish Pub)
Black Steers
Mag & Bean
Delta Cafe


The cinema at Game City also pulls some crowd renamed capitol

Check this link to see listings and phone numbers of shops and restaurants in Riverwalk Mall: Another mall where few bars and restaurants are located.

Sports Cafe: this short lived cafe is now closed
Keg & Zebra: this short lived Popular Pub is also closed
Primi Piatti : one of the best in town fine pasta and pizza
Equatorial Cafe: fine coffe house by the road side.


Check the cinema at Riverwalk

Besides the Malls

The city provides various entertainment actions around its hotels such as
Gaborone Sun Casino and Hotel- Centrally located
Creta Lodge - Just a little quiter than of all places
Grand Palm Hotel and Casino - The bar in the casino gets busy often

Other popular & upmarket restaurnts
Bull & Bush Popular upmarket restaurant

A New Cafe on the Bloack

News Cafe A popular cool cafe to hang out just behind IDM/BNPC complex
The Syringa Hotel, Plot 21117 Cnr. Mobuto & Maratadiba Drive, The Village, Gabarone
Tel: 09267-319-0666 Fax: 09267-319-0566


Check the local radio stations for events

Radio Sations: Catch weekend events from local radios
Yarona FM @106.6 youth oriented station with interesting DJs
Gabz FM @96.2 another cool radio station Mix of all
RB2 103.0 Government radio station but fine music selections
RB1