Must-see restaurants in Algeria

  • Le Caïd

    Algiers

    This classy, intimate and laid-back restaurant is perhaps the best place in Algiers to eat gourmet versions of local classics. It's best known for its…

  • Cafe-Restaurant El Salam

    Algiers

    A handy place to eat when exploring the Casbah district, this cheap locals favourite serves traditional home cooking that can be hard to find elsewhere…

  • Restaurant la Comete

    Algeria

    At this old-fashioned restaurant, ever popular and rather dusty, waiters wear pristine white suit jackets and look like they've been doing the job for…

  • Restaurant Le Saint

    Algeria

    With daily specials that, depending on the day of the week, can include fish couscous or prawns served fried or grilled and with a range of different…

  • Lalla Mina

    Algiers

    This gorgeously renovated old building, with its star-studded roof, Andalucian-style tiled walls, Moorish arches and an interior stage that was once…

  • Café Tontonville

    Algiers

    This Algiers institution is a great place for breakfast and coffee on the ever-busy terrace of the cafe. Around the back is the restaurant serving grilled…

  • Oriental Restaurant

    Algiers

    A fast, fun, noisy and busy Palestinian restaurant with a calling card of succulent dripping shawarma and plates of mezze loaded with hummus, olives and…

  • Restaurant Belle Vue

    Algeria

    Right outside the entrance to the ruins, this little place is normally busy with locals glued to the football on the TV, busying themselves with endless…

  • La Maison de Couscous

    Algiers

    Up by the concrete Sacré Coeur Cathedral, high up rue Didouche Mourad, this local no-frills place serves what its name says: couscous, along with chorba …

  • Brasserie des Facultés

    Algiers

    This venerable spot on Algiers' main drag offers hearty meals of the steaks and couscous kind in an atmospheric dining room with partial sea views. Good…

  • Restaurant le Concorde

    Constantine

    The travel-mad owner of this restaurant will fill you up with steaks, red lentil soup and the local speciality of chachoukha (think: chopped pasta with a…

  • Restaurant des Excursions

    Algeria

    Right next to the entrance gates to the ruins, the cheery owner of this cosy cafe with local textiles hanging on the walls will whip you up an after-ruins…

  • Restaurant Palmier

    Central Algeria

    This is the best and most established restaurant in town. It has a very chic dining room – bright white walls with traditional arts and crafts on display …

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