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Auberge du Moulin
Consistently rated the best meal in town, the old windmill, set in a beautiful garden, serves fine Franco-Algerian food with great style. There's dining outside when the weather allows.
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Big Blue
Omelettes, burgers and frites are served from this stall, just opposite the gates of the university. Extremely popular at lunch and dinner.
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Brasserie des Facultés
The food side of this popular and often smoky bar fills up early and for good reason. It isn't the cheapest place in town, but it is consistently good, with a well-priced plat du jour. Tables alongside the window are referred to as front de mer , overlooking not the beach but the passage along busy rue Didouche Mourad and the entrance to the university.
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Dar Lahlou
A relative newcomer, Dar Lahlou is doing the seemingly impossible: serving upmarket couscous. Yet, it works. But then this isn't just any old couscous. The family is from the Kabylie where they and women in surrounding villages still make couscous by hand, for which they won the gold medal for the best couscous in the Mediterranean in 2005, a source of national pride.
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L'Arc en Ciel
This place is particularly busy at lunchtime, when the small room fills with people from the town hall and other nearby offices, who look as though they have been coming here for years. Service is fast, food is unfussy and fish, couscous and paella are the specialities.
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La Maison de Couscous
Up by the concrete Sacré Coeur Cathedral, high up rue Didouche Mourad, this local no-frills place serves what its name says: couscous. Algerians don't often go out to eat couscous - it's the sort of dish your wife or mother cooks best - but they come here in numbers. No alcohol is available.
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La Vague Bleu
The owner is a fisherman who sells whatever he has caught on his boat in this dark little restaurant under the city rampart, across the road from the port. There's not a lot of ambiance and no alcohol, but the fish couldn't be fresher and the prices are reasonable for the quality.
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Le Dauphin
Don't be fooled by the faux Greek exterior or the muzak inside, this is one of the city's best, where the freshest fish and the best wine is enjoyed by well-heeled locals and oil workers. Alcohol is served and it has a terrace.
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Le Magelan
There's a line of fish restaurants along the Rampe de la Pêcherie, the passage that leads from beside Djemaa el-Djedid to the port (or used to until the lower gate was blocked during the 1990s). All have the same sort of product and prices: choose a fish from the display and say whether you want it grilled or fried. Le Magelan (formerly the Sirène de Mer) also does a fine fish soup, but no alcohol is available.
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Les Puits d'Amour
If you need some serious French baked goods, look no further than this retro patisserie.
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Milk Bar
A reliable all-day food stop on Place Emir Abdelkader, it's good for a coffee and croissant, or a slice of pizza at lunch, and has pavement seating.
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Restaurant le Faubourg
Down a flight of steps off Pl Audin, this restaurant is a simple place that serves straightforward meals of soup and roast chicken on plastic tables, either in the main room (with TV) or salle familiale . No alcohol is available.
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Restaurant Yulmaz
This small, bright place just off Pl Audin is a little more expensive than others in the alley, but they are a cut above the rest with good grills and tagines, although there's no alcohol.
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Tontonville Café
The entrance is on the side street by the theatre. Inside this high-ceilinged canteen, popular at lunchtime, take a tray and choose from a range of dishes - perhaps a tagine, a lamb stew, or a couscous - and have drinks served. Afterwards, you can go out front and have a coffee on the terrace.
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