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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 19 lounges
Best lounges in Nairobi
The 10 most notable lounges in Nairobi, 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
Fifteen Rooftop
15th Floor, The Curve By The Park, Off Mombasa Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.526, percentile 100 of 19
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2
Cavalli at The Manor
73 Westlands Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.367, percentile 94.44 of 19
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3
Asmara Lounge Pangani
Pangani, Nairobi, Kenya
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.311, percentile 88.89 of 19
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4
Ikulu Lounge
Milimani suburb at the junction of Jakaya Kikwete and Ralph Bunche Roads Nairobi
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.309, percentile 83.33 of 19
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5
Amazon Park - Kilimani
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.175, percentile 77.78 of 19
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6
Tipsys Lounge
Suguta Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.000, percentile 72.22 of 19
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7
Oil Change Models
Nairobi
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.809, percentile 66.67 of 19
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8
Rabbit Hole Lounge
Enterprise Rd, Nairobi
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.795, percentile 61.11 of 19
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9
Rarys Sports Lounge and Grill
Zimmerman Estate, Kamiti Road Next to Base stage
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.773, percentile 55.56 of 19
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10
B-Club
Galana Plaza, Galana Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.739, percentile 50 of 19
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 check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
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).