This must be the quietest pub in town

Fahari Place bar attendants serves a customer at the said apartments on Church Road. January 28, 2014. Photo/DIANA NGILA 

In Summary

• Cook a meal. Eat something other than meat.
• Meet people you have been avoiding for an evening of coffee.
• Leave the toilet seat up. Just do something different.

By Jackson Biko
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Familiarity will kill you with boredom. Variety is, indeed, the spice of life. And we all need to spice up our lives occasionally.

Women wear new hairstyles and buy shoes. They go for spa treatment and drink wine at their girl’s place, as they talk about their children, career and men.

And this is the reason why they live longer. Variety. Us, we die faster because we are stuck doing the same things. Eating the same foods.

Drinking the same beer, served by the same barman. As a result, our lives become colourless and bland.

Then we die. Then someone starts dating our women and they become even happier.

This calls for change of behaviour and thought; Use a different route home. Change your sitting position at work. Hang a painting in your office.

JUST DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Preferably a painting of something that brings you peace; like a beach, or a camel. Whatever. Cook a meal. Eat something other than meat. Meet people you have been avoiding for an evening of coffee. Leave the toilet seat up. Just do something different.

We drink at the same place because it works for us. Plus the barman knows our names and our drinks. But the same bar, the same lounge, the same drink, every week for years will start feeling like work.

Like imprisonment. So you have to seek different places where you can enjoy your drink, places that will shock your senses of location and, in turn, lend a different experience to your drinking.

Fahari Place is one of those places, totally subdued. It’s actually a furnished apartment on Church Road, almost opposite Wasini Apartments. It’s much, much smaller.

There is inside seating, that can only hold a handful of tables and chairs at the bar. But inside is closed out, so you will sit outside.

There is a chef who makes mean meals, so pick their menu. Order a beer (their wines aren’t much to rave about) or spirit. It’s quiet. Your car can be washed by a handyman, as you watch, and he does a great job of it.

It’s hardly ever full. You might sit with one of the apartment guests who is down for a meal, or a drink, but generally, that’s it, you will almost always be less than three people.

Fahari is cool because it’s different. You won’t bump into the usual suspects. You won’t have to shake hands and make small talk.

It will just be you and your thoughts. You can go online if you want, they have fast wireless. Oh, and honk at the gate. It is always closed