The Lord Erroll Gourmet Restaurant was built in May 1997 by Hans Stoecklin, Michael Craig, and Felix Howler and maintained by them until February 2013, when the Moi family made a move to acquire it and renovate it into the 43-room hotel that it is right now.
According to a report by Business Daily it was acquired at Ksh300 million and is under the captainship of Gideon Moi's wife Zahra Balewa. It was transformed from a quiet hotel in the leafy suburbs of Runda to a brand to be reckoned with internationally.
The establishment has multiple dining rooms that can accommodate groups as small as six and as large as 100, for banqueting, conferencing, weddings, meetings and bespoke events, and has a lush garden that can take up to 300 people comfortably.
In less than 6 years since the Moi family acquisition, the restaurant has been named the Global Award Restaurant of the Year in 2017 (LTG).
It was also mentioned in CNN Travel 's 14 Hot New Global Restaurants for 2018 and won the World Luxury Restaurant Awards in 2018.
Of all the wins, however, the World Luxury Restaurant Awards was the most prestigious and lucrative for the high-end restaurant.
The awards ceremony was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 14, and had more than 1,000 entries from 140 countries around the world competing for the prestigious awards in 100 categories.
The high-end restaurant has also been shortlisted for the Haute Grandeur Global Restaurant Awards 2020, where it will compete among the best of the best in the hotel industry.
The restaurant is named after Lord Errol (Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll), a British noble who stayed in Kenya alongside between the 1930s and 1940s.
He was killed in 1941 after getting into a disagreement with other nobles, a murder case that has inspired films and books but has never been solved to date.
