Shopping in Kampala

Garden City: Kampala’s Best One Stop Shopping Center.

Garden City is the best one-stop destination for shopping, eating, banking, entertainment and leisure, located Kololo along Yusuf Lule road next to Golf Course Hotel. Featuring a great range of restaurants, shops, banking services, beauty salons, health and fitness centres as well as entertainment venues, Garden City is a one stop shopping place worth visiting during a tour in Kampala city. For lovers of fashion, the mall has a number of signature outlets that will attract your attention. Experience the latest fashion collections from world renowned designers and also find fine jewellery as well as the latest in footwear.

Clothing Shops at Garden City

Looking for trendy fashions, Garden city has many fashion outlets for ladies, gents and kids that will upgrade your looks. The shopping mall has a lot more clothing alternatives than pointed out here however these are a couple of the more well-liked stores.

Woolworths – has clothing for children, men and women with mainly casual wear items. They offer pretty and trendy clothes.

Enka Pasha – this clothing store as well offers great clothing alternatives for children, men and women.

Sylvia Owori– for fashionable women, this is the best clothing store for any kind of lifestyle and trending fashions to show off on the streets of Kampala.

Knights Polo – this is a men-only garments store with great long and short sleeve button-ups in addition to pants and a number of other stunning items all to make gents look great.

Wina Classic – The best place to find this kind of shop is Garden City, famed for its high-end clientele showcases exclusive designer fashion brands and latest fashions for both ladies and gents.

Brovad Linen and Fashion – they bring the sense of style to life with a wide range of fabrics for men.

Lady Charlotte – they have mostly women’s fashions and they do massage, facials, steam bath, sauna & body scrub.

Crafts and Souvenirs at Garden City
Whether it’s a kitenge dress, scarf, kikuyu bag, African sandals or perhaps, bangles, ear rings and necklaces, you will find quality African arts, crafts and souvenirs being sold out at Garden City crafts and souvenir stores.

The Banana Boat – located on the ground floor of this incredible shopping mall and it is an excellent option for people reluctant to head to the markets. They offer all the items one would get in the craft markets in the city.

Charity’s Boutique – this store has African classic clothes, shoes, hand bags and jewelry.

Banking in At Garden City

Garden City Shopping Mall has numerous banking halls and ATMs such as Stanbic Bank, Orient Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, ABSA Bank (formerly known as Barclays’ Bank) Housing Finance Bank and many forex bureaus.

Entertainment at Garden City

Garden City has a great number of entertainment venues such as casinos, lounges, kids’ area, and cinema halls among others.

Cineplex Cinema – here you can loosen up from all the chaotic everyday life of Kampala and try to get caught up with Hollywood. Actually Cineplex shows the most recent blockbuster hits approximately one month after they have been released in the United States. The design is similar to the majority of movie theaters found in the United States and you may purchase various goodies such as candy, popcorn as well as soda at Cineplex.

BodaBoda – this place has the ambiance of a higher-end lounge bar. It is a great place to have a drink with some friends as you catch up. This place normally is very packed on Saturday plus Friday nights.

Kids Playground – in case you want a place to keep your kids as you do some shopping then taking them to an outdoor playground situated outdoors on the 1st floor is the best fun option. This playground is equipped with many kids games facilities that will keep your kids well entertained for one or two hour.

Casino Simba – situated within the mall, is among the best casinos in the whole of Uganda. Gamblers will completely enjoy themselves in this place and will also be entertained each hour by a couple of female dancers performing different cultural dances on the little stage.

Alleygators Ten Pin Bowling Alley – this is home to the best bowling alley in Uganda coupled with pool tables, karaoke, and bar and an arcade making this place an incredible enough spot for a weekend.

Restaurants at Garden City

Garden City Shopping Mall has a wide range of cafes and restaurant that serve local and international dishes with some of the best hot and cold beverages.

Nawab – found on the roof of Garden City, this Indian restaurant prepares one of the best s dishes in Kampala and once you leave Nawab you’ll be planning your following visit. The substantial menu offers several options for regular visitors and they’ll gladly cater to big groups.

New York Pizza Kitchen – looking for a decent Pizza in Kampala, NYPK is the place to be with decent prices. The style is similar to a 1940’s soda-fountain shop with huge soft red booths as well as Betty Boop décor. They possess a pizza special every Monday for ‘buy one and get another half off all the pizzas. Certainly a great place for exciting group dinner.

Café Pap – situated on the 1st floor in the middle of the mall, Café Pap provides typical coffee -shop food as well as drinks. They offer cold plus hot coffee beverages with an attractive number of smoothies. It serves dinner, breakfast plus lunch items such as salads, sandwiches (one of the most fascinating is the roast beef together with peanut butter) and rolex.

Ranchers Butcher Shop and Grill – as you may determine from the name, Rancher’s has high quality meat cuts, however they as well have unusual imported items such as Aunt Jemima’s pure maple syrup, Al’s barbeque sauce, nerds, blue diamond almonds as well as fruit roll ups.

Dormans – they offer coffee, breakfast, cocktails, lunch plus dinner with mid-range prices in line with the majority of coffee shops in town.

Food Court – has a selection of ethnic options together with a remarkably beautiful view of the nearby golf course that significantly enhances the standard food court experience. Actually the most appealing food alternative at Garden City is A Lo Cubano – a Cuban food restaurant. The food court in addition has Lebanese, 2 Indian places, an “oriental” kitchen and Italian.

Tutti Frutti – this is one of the best places to get ice cream in Kampala. Tutti Frutti offers a wide variety of ice cream flavors like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry to mention but a few.

Electronics at Garden City

Then Garden City is probably the best place to check out for any electronics that you may need.

Pavan Computers – located on the basement floor, has all sorts of electronics that you may think of from computers, laptops, mobiles phones, printers and many more.

Colour Plus – in case you need passport pictures or simply a couple of normal pictures printed, visit Colour Plus for all your photo requirements. In addition they process video.

Kings Gadgets & Car Accessories – for all car accessories, mobile phones, cameras, original watches, perfumes, laptops, home theatres, car alarm systems, etc, Kings Gadgets has got you covered.

Simba Telecom­ – Offering a wide range of smartphones and accessories, samba telecom is one of Uganda’s leading mobile phone sellers.

Bookstores in Kampala

Aristoc – It is a bookstore but additionally offers toys, art supplies plus games. Aristic is one of the few places within Kampala where you can get the latest releases. Aristoc can as well custom order books that aren’t in stock.

Telecom Shops
In case you want air-time or Internet, Garden City has a store for MTN, Airtel and Africell. You can purchase Internet bundles at any of these stores and going there to see the types of deals available there for the phone plus Internet is highly recommended.