Algerian restaurants in Algiers
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Dar Lahlou
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. If wheat couscous is hard to digest, try the barley, corn or rice couscous, though Dar Lahlou also serves tagines and roasts in a place that the owners have made look like home.
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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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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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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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Restaurant le Faubourg
Down a flight of steps off place 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 (family room). No alcohol is available.
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Restaurant Yulmaz
This small, bright place just off place Audin is a little more expensive than others in the alley, but it is a cut above the rest with good grills and tagines, although there’s no alcohol.
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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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