You eat at Valencia Gardens in a large green space in Lavington, Nairobi, where the restaurant seats six hundred under the trees. The terrace has a stocked bar, and camp fires burn in the cold seasons. The kitchen caters for weddings and corporate events, with past clients including Safaricom Foundation and Nairobi Hospital.

The restaurant is part of San Valencia, a hospitality group with operations along Riara Road, three hundred meters from Junction Mall. The garden is the main draw — open and shaded, with space for large gatherings. The terrace overlooks it, and the bar serves drinks to tables set among the trees.

San Valencia has catered for events as large as twenty thousand people, including the 2006 Kengen Annual General Meeting at Kasarani Stadium. The group handles corporate catering across Kenya, but the garden restaurant in Lavington is its fixed base. The fires on the terrace are lit when the evenings turn cold.