The Rock

Zanzibar's most famous restaurant: a thatched dining room on a coral rock in the sea. A one-room restaurant on a coral outcrop just off Pingwe beach, with windows on every side and the lagoon all around. Founded in 2011, it cooks seafood with Zanzibari ingredients and Italian technique. You walk out across the sand at low tide and take the restaurant's boat at high tide — the arrival is half the experience. Cuisine: Seafood, Zanzibari-Italian.