The whole night market is a tourist scam. Most products are not fresh, price can vary x100 depending of customer face. I clearly don't recommend this. If you really want to play with what your stomach can handle, don't forget to ask the price before ordering.

We had seen the mostly negative comments, but having the night food market in Darwin, Northern Teritory in cherished memories we went to this food market. DO NOT GO! The pictures look amazing, the idea is great - fresh seafood right from the ocean and prepared right in front of you. Reality is the opposite: the food is prepared in advance, has been waiting under the sun for hours without any cooling, has had big black ugly flies sitting on it again and again. It is dry, tasteless and costs •more• than in any halfway decent restaurant. A well-practised scam is: you choose, you eat, and then you OVERPAY grossly.

I see reviews are pretty polarised on this place, and I think that's because there are two aspects to it - 1) the food, and 2) the walkabout, watching-the-sideshow. So, if you go here simply to eat your dinner, it's not gonna be a great experience cos, although there is a great range of food, these are not great chefs (despite the hats), so it's simply a case of heating up the ready cooked food on the barbecue or gas stove and giving it to you on a paper-plate, plus - it's not cheap, in comparison to the same food in a less touristy place - for example small meat kebabs were Tsh 500 in town and Tsh 5,000 here - maybe five times the size, not ten - and less flavoursome. On the other hand, this is a great place to walk around and watch the sideshow, joke with the multitude of "chefs" who will accost you to buy from their stall and you can observe the huge diversity of people around, including the youths dancing to the beats from the DJ above the fish market - where, incidentally, you can get a reasonably priced beer. So, for me, definitely worth a stroll around, and maybe a bite or two - but know what to expect.

It’s a very interesting place. We came here approximately at 19 o’clock. Not much fruit, but we found the perfect guys with coconuts, avocados, mangos 🥭 and other exotic fruit. They even used gloves while most of them don’t 🙈 Many offers of different kind of seafood, but there are also vegetarians options, like sweet potatoes, falafel, bread fruit. We felt safe going here after the darkness. The only disadvantage is that everybody tried to call us and persuade to choose their food - it is really annoying and exhausting.

Very good dishes (meal), good prices. If we will know that every evening is so night food market we dont go to restaurant. You must to try.

I don't know why it has so low stars. Everything is cheap and very delicious. We ate Zanzibar pizza for 4000 TZS.

Not worth, trap for tourists, food in bad condition and prices very high. They will only tell you the low prices so you pick randomly and let you pay after eating, charging you ridiculous prices. They tried to make us pay for double the food we really ate eventhough we told them about the squid in bad condition. At the end we had to bargain the price and we managed to pay even less than half they tried to charge us at the beginning.

Avoid at all cost. Food quality is not good at all. We did not finish our food and very expansive compared to other place such as Lukmaan in the old city part of Stone Town where you can in a cool and local setting with fresh food. This market is a textbook tourist scam, pure and simple. Don’t get fooled by the local eating there, they do not remotely pay the price tourist will be paying.

Avoid this place at all costs!! Food is no where near delicious and they are going to charge you ridiculous prices!! Or at least ask for the price of everything you choose one by one. They charged us 90 usd for 6-8 skewers and 2 fruit juices!! If this happens to you find tourizm police around they are really helpful and get your money back.

Very expensive, the skewer stalls are a scam, they tell you one price and then you pay another, the quality of the food is poor although the local people are friendly

A real tourist trap! Beware of the smiley chefs trying to drain every penny out and pushing you to order. Always always ask for the price before ordering!! The food is nothing to write home about, rather enjoy the ambience in the park and only order when you are certain of the price :)

Scam Market: Even after i asked the price upfront, after we ate they forgott what he told us before and wanted for a small plate 35$. Totally not worth to visit this market. What you get is old, bad food and the most expensive food you ever ate. The only purpose there is to scam tourists.

WARNING! ⚠️ - HUGE TOURIST TRAP SCAM - CAPTAIN MORGAN Every vendor will try chat you up and just have a look at the their shop, with petty we agreed to try out 2 chicken sticks, a flat bread & a lime/lemongrass juice. After eating half the plate we asked how much we owed they guy said 85.000 shillings, was baffled by the amount and asked how come? he than told us we had to lobster sticks... not much to do after eating the plate, he even asked for tips..

Very good place to try all Zanzibari food especially Zanzibari pizza, soo good. Walk around, try different things, falafel, showerma, meshakik, samosa, lots of things. Enjoy the sunset from there and watch the young guys jumping in to the water one after another.

Zanzibar “pizza”, sugarcane juice - yes. Both good and reasonably priced. But the hassle from the stalls with the pre-cooked grilled meat is really annoying. Then the food is WAY over priced. It’s dry, tasteless and inedible. Plus it’s been sitting out for hours. They just reheat it in deep fat fryers. Nice idea but terrible execution. Could be really good but sadly, it’s a real let down. Have the pizza & juice, and leave.

$10 usd per skewer..... I bartered down to $5 but still feel like I overpaid. As many have mentioned pizza and juice were good but hard to overlook the aggressive sales pitches.

The food market is an unforgettable experience, I've never seen so much food variety with such enthusiastic traders. And the food will keep you going back for more, it's a must visit place in zanzibar

Found the market to be very expensive and overpriced. Paying $10 for a stick of shrimp and our fish and calamari were all overdone from various vendors. Cats and people beg and the surroundings are dirty. Tip, look and walk away, find the stall with the longest row and buy there if you really need to. The festive vibe was nice

A Big tourist SCAM, never buy if Price IS not specified. Zanzibar pizzas OK, sawarma for 2500 nice, sugarcane juice fine (prices specified there hence no risk to be scammed)