A farm-to-fork café and experience sanctuary on a Tigoni tea plantation, 1800 metres into the Kenyan highlands. Thirty minutes from the city. A lifetime from it.
The founding verb
Most restaurants give you a view of something. Aperio gives you the space to see differently.
We sit where the tea hills fall away into a 180° open horizon, creating space to see, taste, and think differently.
The technique is Northern Italian. The land and instinct are African. We don't imitate what isn't here. We make something truthful from what is.
We don't import Italy. We translate it.
THE TABLE
La Colazione opens the morning and Il Pomeriggio holds the afternoon, alongside a beverage list built for the view and a picnic menu made for the grass beneath it.
RESERVE
Four ways to book an afternoon at Tigoni — a window table in the main house, the whole deck to yourselves, a private corner on the Small Deck, or mikeka on the grass under the trees. Pick your space, then your table.
SOME VIEWS CHANGE WHAT YOU SEE.
THIS ONE CHANGES
HOW YOU SEE.
Experience Sanctuary
The café is the introduction. The experiences are where the afternoon turns into something you carry home — strangers into friends.
Our supper club. One long table, one story, one night.
An evening · ~3 hrs02Walk the estate. Read the land.
~1 hr 15 min03Forage the herbs. Formulate what you take home.
~2 hrs10Build a living world under glass.
Coming soon04Fireside storytelling at golden hour, for grown-ups and children together, drinks in hand as the light goes.
Early evening · ~1 hr 15 min05A workday above the tea fields — a desk, a view, a shared lunch, and a walk at midday.
A full day · ~7 hrs 45 min06The estate on two wheels — a 90-minute guided tour, or ride it yourself for as long as three hours.
~3 hrs07Wine through a Saturday afternoon, with a listening session as it turns to evening.
Coming soon08Cocktails through a Saturday afternoon, with a listening session as it turns to evening.
Coming soon09Mocktails through a Saturday afternoon, with a listening session as it turns to evening.
Coming soon
Teams & offsites
The quarterly, the strategy day, the team that needs to remember it's a team — thirty minutes from the city, with the view doing half the work. Build your own day, facilitation included.
Celebrations & private events
Birthdays, bridal showers, anniversaries — for up to 80 of your people. Build it in a few taps, confirm the date with a 30% deposit, and let us handle every detail down to the candles. Your only job is to show up.
Find us
On the tea plantations above Tigoni, in the Limuru highlands.
Tigoni, Limuru
Get directions →Hours
Wednesday – Sunday · 9:00 – 17:00
Getting here
Two roads in: via Kiambu, or via Limuru. Both take about 30 minutes from the city. Full directions on the Visit page.
