Restaurants in Grand Baie
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Le Capitaine
This is a popular place serving good standard seafood and fish dishes in a pleasant convivial space that combines style with informality and great bay views. Fresh lobster is the pick of the menu, while other delicious mains include whole crab cooked in white wine, and lobster ravioli with fresh mushroom and cucumber quenelles. Reservations are essential in the evening.
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Luigi's
Classic little trattoria serving authentic pizza and pasta dishes plus a range of daily specials, such as seafood gnocchi. Make sure you leave room for one of the scrumptious deserts.
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Iguana Lounge
Next to Fusion and incongruously situated facing an Esso garage, Iguana Lounge is one of our favourite places in town. For upscale Mexican - excellent burritos and chili con carne - look no further. Reserve a table in the charming back garden as they're hard to come by otherwise.
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Fusion
Possibly the most self-consciously fashionable dining option in Grand Baie, Fusion looks just as it sounds - flash, minimalist, sleek and a little intimidating. You'll see the smart set out for dinner here, sampling fusion-flavoured Mauritian-Asian cooking.
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Sakura
Despite Grand Baie's wishy-washy dining scene, Sakura has managed to hold its own for 22 years – the faded decor is living proof. The friendly owners are present every evening waving to repeat customers and watching their skilled chefs fling ingredients in the air during the exhilarating teppanyaki shows. Reservations are essential if you want your meal cooked at your table.
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Happy Rajah
Near one of the Tamil temples in a large wooden structure, Happy Rajah satisfies costumers with a large selection of surprisingly filling curries and stews. Lunches are served in the vestibule – if you come in the evening you'll eat in the more atmospheric dining room draped in oriental tapestries.
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Coolen – Chez Ram
The clear local favourite among Royal Rd's endless parade of restaurants, Coolen is situated smack in the centre of tourist town but is usually filled to the brim with Mauritians. Customers are welcomed with fish cakes and a splash of rum while they thumb through the menu of Creole and seafood staples. Go for the fish in banana leaves (Rs 175) and make sure to save room for the banana flambé.
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La Langouste Grisée
This is a restaurant frequented by the great and the good of Grand Baie, offering very stylish dining overlooking an attractive garden and a swimming pool–like pond. As a winner of the Fourchette d'Or in 2005, 'the Tipsy Lobster' is generally recognised as one of the best restaurants on the island. Dishes from its imaginative Franco-Mauritian menu include Dorado fillet with peanut sauce and banana slices. Lobster is obviously the speciality and vegetarians really shouldn't bother coming.
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Thai Foon
Newly opened in 2006 by the original team behind Pereybère's Wang Thai, authenticity is the watchword at Thai Foon. This means fresh ingredients imported from Bangkok, a Thai chef and some excellent Thai cocktails. The eating space is stylish but relaxed, with outside seating available.
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Le Tandoor
Excellent Indian cooking makes Le Tandoor stand out amid some stiff competition in Grand Baie. Even though it's located on the main road, there's quite a buzz each evening (reservations advised) as the place hums to hungry travellers enjoying excellent curries, naans and tandoori dishes.
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La Vieille Rouge
The red snapper isn't exactly a find, but it's one of Grand Baie's more reliable budget eateries. You'll find a standard selection of Creole curries, Chinese dishes, fresh fish and so forth. It's all tasty and comes in decent portions, although the set menu seems a little steep.
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Alchemy
This friendly place set back from the coastal road is a great mix of bar and grill. The pizzas are cooked in a traditional wood-fired oven and are excellent, plus there's a big range of steaks and seafood, and imaginative daily specials.
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Paparazzi
This smart pizza restaurant on the second floor of Sunset Boulevard (on the non-bay side) is a winner. It's far pricier than any other pizzeria in Mauritius, but the quality suggests why. There's free delivery if you're feeling lazy.
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Café Müller
This charming option is a great place to fill the belly for breakfast or lunch. As the name suggests, it's a German-run cafe and bakery that rustles up great sandwiches in a lovely grassy garden.
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Don Camillo
Despite its unpromising location beside the Caltex petrol station, Don Camillo is a great place to taste real pizza. In the evening it's positively buzzing – either get there early or reserve.
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L'Épicerie Gourmand
For a real treat, L'Épicerie Gourmand is a treasure-trove of imported delicacies including cheese, ham and pâté. It also sells luscious cakes and pastries and ice cream.
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Ebisu
Sharing the same site and management as La Langouste Grisée, Ebisu offers a sushi bar as well as more substantial teppanyaki theatrics. Reservations are advised in the evenings.
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Crok Chaud
The best coffee in town, hands down, and a damn fine little patisserie, this roadside gem is a great place to start the day, indulge in a mid-morning cake or have a nice lunch.
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Super U Hypermarket
Located 200m inland from Grand Baie's main drag, the vast Super U Hypermarket is, by far, the best supermarket on the island and sells almost everything self-caterers could want.
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Store 2000
You can buy groceries and other essentials at Store 2000.
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Wakamé
Decorated with the usual Japanese austerity, this popular joint specialises in (yup, you guessed it) sushi and teppanyaki. A word to the wise: on Friday's all-you-can-eat-sushi night it's best to arrive late in the evening so all of the sushi saved from the night before has been eaten by earlier diners. To reach Wakamé follow the main road out to Pointe aux Canonnier beyond Hidden Reef – if you hit the giant plaster elephant you've gone too far.
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Resto Bar Grand Baie
'The dilemma of having a successful restaurant is that it's always swamped with customers' said the cantankerous owner – a veritable Dr House of restaurateurs. 'So I closed my place in the centre of Grand Baie and moved here where it's nice and quiet.' We're not surprised that the diner-phobic chef once ran a popular joint – you won't find a better steak for the price. Order your beef bloody or rare – a well-done piece of meat is a 'crime against humanity'.
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Max Gelato
Widely considered the best gelataria on the island, Max whips up a scrumptious assortment of flavours to cool you down after a day in the sun. We especially liked the vanilla cream and nutella. A half-kilo case of takeaway treats costs Rs 250.
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L'Impasse
Homemade teas, fresh French- and Thai-inspired salads, and fish from the Seychelles makes this little eatery well worth finding. Follow the signs down a back alley – it's next door to the Vaco gallery in 'Dodo Square'.
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Le Goût du Large
Let your nose guide you past the nightmarishly cramped parking lot – once you round the corner you'll find a scrumptious steaks and seafood served in a seaside pavilion. The Astroturf and tiki umbrellas feel a bit out of place, but you hardly notice them when the mood lighting kicks on after sunset.
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