Excellence Café
Restaurant & Café · Hargeisa
All-day dining, fresh coffee and a daily lunch buffet in the heart of Hargeisa.
Excellence Café sits in the Jig-Jiga Yar quarter of Hargeisa, opposite Qaalib Business Center — an all-day restaurant and café that runs breakfast, a midday lunch buffet and dinner from one kitchen, every day from 7 AM to midnight. The menu is broad by design: Lebanese, Mediterranean, Turkish and Arabic cooking beside Somali plates like camel suqaar with shuuro and geel haneed, all backed by a full coffee counter. There is an air-conditioned indoor hall for the buffet and a covered garden terrace for open-air dining, and tables can be reserved ahead by phone or WhatsApp.
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Excellence Café is built around one idea — a single Hargeisa address that covers the whole day. Mornings start with fresh coffee and pastries and a full breakfast menu, from çılbır Turkish eggs and shakshuka to Somali cambabur and loxoox; midday brings an affordable, self-serve lunch buffet; and the à la carte menu — pizza, pasta, grills, biryani, curries, mezze, salads and fish — runs through until midnight.
There are two ways to sit. Inside, an air-conditioned hall with a forest-mural wall holds the daily buffet on skirted linen tables with gold and steel chafing dishes. Outside, a covered garden terrace runs under a black pergola frame and laser-cut screens, with woven armchairs, string lights and a lawn beyond — room enough for a long table when a group books ahead. Service is quick and attentive, and plates come out on the café's own branded tableware.
Come for an early coffee, a working lunch off the buffet, or an evening table on the terrace with friends — and reserve ahead so it is ready when you arrive.
The covered garden terrace, the indoor buffet hall and the coffee counter — the space as it actually is, in the café's own photographs.
Out back, a pergola-framed terrace runs over patterned tiling — woven armchairs at long wooden tables, mashrabiya screens between the bays, string lights overhead and a lawn beyond. It is the seat to ask for on a warm evening.
Inside, an air-conditioned hall with a forest-mural wall holds the daily buffet on skirted linen tables — gold and steel chafing dishes, a floral centrepiece, staff in branded shirts keeping it stocked.
Espresso and macchiato, Turkish and Arabic coffee, and filter coffee by V60, Chemex or French press — plus teas, iced coffee, frappés and juices, brewed to order from the first morning cup on.
The buffet runs every day at a price set for an ordinary working lunch — a rotating self-serve spread of hot dishes, salads and mezze.
Book ahead and the terrace tables are pushed together into one long setting — birthdays, family gatherings and Iftar, with a private buffet built around the group's own choices.
Coffee and tea are carried out in the café's own glassware — a small thing done properly.
Cheesecakes, chocolate, red velvet, Black Forest and cookies — plated for the table or boxed to take away.
One kitchen covers a wide spread. Mediterranean and Levantine mezze — hummus, mutabbal, baba ghanoush, tabbouleh, fattoush — and charcoal grills like shish tawook, kufta and mixed grill sit beside pizza, pasta, burgers, saj wraps and sandwiches. Somali and Gulf plates run deep too: chicken and meat biryani, curries, suqaar with rice, geel haneed and goat haneed, and whole and filleted fish. Breakfast is its own long menu, and a cake counter of cheesecakes, chocolate, red velvet and Black Forest rotates through the day.
On the menu
A full coffee bar: espresso and macchiato, vanilla and latte macchiato, Turkish and Arabic coffee, and filter coffee by Hario V60, Chemex or French press. Alongside it — Somali, camel, black and herbal teas; iced cappuccino, chocolate frappé and affogato; milkshakes, mojitos, smoothies, healthy boosters and fresh-pressed juices.
One address that works from an early coffee to an evening table — and for the occasions in between.
Working breakfast
Coffee, pastries and full breakfasts from 7 AM — a quiet room to start the day or meet before work.
Lunch with colleagues
The daily buffet is the fast option midday; the à la carte menu runs alongside it.
Evening table
The full menu runs until midnight — a relaxed dinner on the covered terrace or in the hall.
Birthdays & celebrations
The space is set up for birthdays and family gatherings; reserve ahead so a table is ready.
Group buffets
Private buffets can be arranged for larger groups, built around the group's own choices.
Iftar gatherings
During Ramadan the café hosts Iftar, with private buffet arrangements on request.
Every day Excellence Café lays out an affordable lunch buffet — a rotating self-serve spread of hot dishes, salads and mezze, priced per person for an ordinary working lunch. For birthdays, family gatherings and Iftar, the café also arranges private buffets built around a group's own choices.
Call or WhatsApp us to reserve ahead, or book directly online.
Call · +252636299996
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Gooladda hoose Jigjiga Yar, opposite Qaalib Business Center, Hargeisa, Somaliland
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