Restaurants and cafes reflect the German influence on Namibia, and most dining rooms offer a reasonable choice of local and continental cuisine.

National specialities:
• Biltong (air-dried meat).
• Rauchfleisch (smoked meat).
• Game such as antelope, ostrich or zebra cooked on a braai (barbecue).
• Potjiekos (one-pot bush stew).
• Seafood, especially oysters, on the coast.

National drinks:
• Tafel lager.
• Windhoek lager.

Legal drinking age: The legal age to drink in bars is 18.

Tipping: 10% is customary.

In the central area of Windhoek, there are restaurants, cafes, cinemas and theatres.

Windhoek has a selection of fashionable shops. Local crafts can be bought in some specialised shops and at the Windhoek Street Market, held every second Saturday. Good buys include diamonds and semi-precious stones, Herero dolls, hand-carved wooden objects, jewellery, karosse rugs, liqueur chocolates made in Windhoek and Swakara garments.

Shopping hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1700, Sat 0900-1300. Some bigger supermarkets are also open Sun 1100-1300 and 1600-1900.