Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 food and drink shops
Best food and drink shops in Lusaka
The 10 most notable food and drink shops in Lusaka, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
ShopRite - Cosmopolitan Mall
Cnr Kufue, & Chipwenupwenu Roads, Makeni
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.523, percentile 100 of 25
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2
Shoprite Select
Shop 01 Novare Pinnacle Shopping Mall Corner Of Chindo Rd, and Mutende Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.481, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Eliado Meats
Los Angeles Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.380, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
Abo Abbas Supermarket
Chipwnupwenu Rd, off Kafue Rd, Makeni
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.365, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
Shoppers Supermarket
zambezi road lusaka ZM
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.241, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
Arogya Groceries
Mwambeshi Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.192, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
Shoprite
Cont ZM, Plot 169 Penda Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.174, percentile 75 of 25
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8
The Pantry Food Shoppe
Shop 9, The Village Complex, Leopards Hill Road, New Kasama
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.153, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
IL Mercato
Leopards Hill Rd Bauleni Junction Lusaka ZM
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.122, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Greens and Grains
St Mary Magdalena Anglican Church, Leopards Hill Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.099, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).