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  1. The General

    Cocktail Bar

    Drink 71
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    A tiled bar, DJ decks, hanging plants, and a fireplace in the same room sounds like a mood board gone rogue, but at The General it somehow coheres into a cocktail bar that feels genuinely lived-in. The list mixes reworked classics with wilder original builds, all grounded in Nairobi rather than performing somewhere else. It earned a spot on The 50 Discovery list, which tracks places worth watching before everyone else does.

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    Harmony Center, 43 General Mathenge Drive, Spring Valley, Nairobi, Kenya · Nairobi
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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.