News Cafe

News Cafe is a large bistro-style cafe at the Arcades Shopping Centre on Great East Road in Lusaka, Zambia, and is popular for breakfast and weekend brunch. It is a broad-menu, continental-style venue rather than a chef-led restaurant, so the draw is reliability, space and a long opening day that starts at 7:00 AM and runs to 10:00 PM.

Breakfast plates are the signature offer and the reason many visitors come: cooked breakfasts, eggs and coffee served through the morning and into brunch hours. Burgers and pasta fill the lunch and dinner menu, together with salads and sandwiches, making it easy to find something for most appetites and for children.

The dining room is spacious and informal, with a mix of indoor tables and seating close to the shopping-centre walkways. The atmosphere is that of a neighbourhood meeting place: remote workers with laptops on weekday mornings, families and friends at weekend brunch. Noise is moderate and rises at peak brunch hours, and dress is casual.

The beverage list is built around coffee, teas, juices and milkshakes, with beer and wine available for later meals.

Prices are moderate, with a typical meal costing about K150-330 (roughly $8-17), making it one of the better-value sit-down options in the Arcades complex. Reservations are not normally needed; it is a walk-in venue, though Friday and Saturday dinner and weekend brunch benefit from a phone call, particularly for larger parties. Its position inside Arcades means parking, banking and shopping are close by, so it combines well with errands in the east of the city.