Restaurants in New Caledonia
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Casa Italia
This Italian restaurant run by an Italian lady is tucked away in a small shopping centre. It opens onto a courtyard surrounded by plants. The pizzas and pasta dishes are simply delicious. It also serves Italian wine. Bookings are recommended as it is often full. It's about 1km from the beach at Anse Vata, on the right just after the Shell station, which is on the left as you head away from the beach. It's off a car park.
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Le Faré
By the beach at Hôtel Le Meridien, the Faré serves barbecue lunches. It looks out over Anse Vata and is a relaxing spot for lunch.
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Snack Ulysse
This snack is popular, unpretentious and relaxed. You can eat in or take away. It has seating on a veranda off the pavement. It serves generously filled hot or cold sandwiches, rice or chips, and meat or fish dishes. Attached to the snack is a café serving quiche, salad and cooked meals which are slightly more expensive than at the snack.
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Café de la Gare
This café is at the Gare Maritime where cruise ships dock. It serves quiche and salad-type dishes for lunch and makes excellent coffees. In good weather, tables are set outside the restaurant on a paved terrace surrounded by flowers and greenery.
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Market Café
Serves croissants, toasted sandwiches, and coffee, tea or hot chocolate for breakfast. It also does freshly squeezed orange juice. There is no seating but you can lean against the counter or stand around the high bars in the café area.
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Zanzibar
Zanzibar is tastefully decorated and has an exotic charm. It does international cuisine.
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Le Roof
Everything about this top-notch gastronomic restaurant is impeccable: the food, service and setting. It's on the jetty over the water at Anse Vata. Don't be too disappointed if you can't have a table by the deck as you can watch the tropical fish in the two large aquariums inside the restaurant.
The only drawback is the loud music from the neighbouring bar and nightclub, which sometimes disturbs the otherwise perfect atmosphere. But then again, it may put you in the mood to go nightclubbing after dinner.
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Le Galapagos
The Galapagos does a scrumptious cheese buffet on Thursday evenings. The buffet includes a dozen or so French cheeses, a variety of fresh breads, a tossed green salad and grapes. Help yourself to as much as you like, select a good French red from the wine list and 'bon appétit'. The buffet opens at 20:00. The restaurant often has live music as well. It's upstairs at the squash courts in baie de l'Orphelinat - look for the building with a turtle on the green wall. It's wise to book in advance.
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La Crêperie Bretonne
This cosy family restaurant in Trianon is decorated in typical Breton style. It serves galettes (thin, savoury pancakes) and crepes. You can sit outdoors on a covered veranda but if you choose to sit indoors you can watch the chef preparing the crepes. The service is fast and friendly and the crepes are deliciously filling. It's just off route de l'Anse Vata.
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La Chaumière
La Chaumière is a spacious restaurant serving gastronomic French cuisine including foie gras and beef and fish dishes. Its traditionally French dishes have a hint of the Pacific flavour. Part of the restaurant is in an old colonial building, with interior steps leading down to an adjacent room. The décor is warm and uncluttered.
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La Case
This café has tables arranged on a covered deck surrounded by leafy plants. It is situated across from baie de l'Orphelinat. It is one of the few places you can get a good cappuccino. It does quiche, salads and panini as well as larger meat and prawn dishes for lunch and dinner.
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Routlottes
In the car park diagonally across from the Baie de la Moselle market, roulottes (food vans, open for dinner) serve takeaway meals that are great value for money. A punnet of rice and meat or chicken and chips costs around CFPF600. There is a wide choice of international dishes.
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Le 1881
This restaurant at Nouville is housed in a building that dates back to the penitentiary days. There is an outdoor marquee-covered dining area over the water. Le 1881 specialises in seafood. At lunch the restaurant serves standard French cuisine; the dinner menu is gourmet.
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Huong-Xua Express
This extremely popular takeaway specialises in Vietnamese cuisine. Dishes are priced by weight so what you pay depends on how hungry you are. The Huong-Xua restaurant next door is open for both lunch and dinner.
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Café Shop
This takeaway shop near Musée de la Ville has a salad bar you can choose from for salads or filled sandwiches. It has fresh white or wholemeal bread for sandwiches and also does panini and burgers.
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Coco Glacé
At Coco Glacé are ice creams and sorbets, and also crepes and waffles. You can relax at a table on the deck area under the trees and watch people coming and going in Place des Cocotiers.
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Couleur Café
This café in Galerie Commerciale Port Plaisance isn't cheap but its panini, quiches and salads are excellent. It also makes freshly squeezed fruit cocktails.
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On the Beach
The name of this place describes its attractive setting. It's at the Côte Blanche sailing club about 2km from Anse Vata and serves up international cuisine.
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Le Bout du Monde
This relaxed restaurant and bar has a large wooden deck overlooking Port Moselle marina. On weekdays it does a lunch salad buffet. It sometimes has live music.
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La Bastide
This hill-top restaurant on Mont Venus has views over baie de l'Orphelinat and tables set around a swimming pool. It specialises in seafood.
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La Fiesta Chez Alban
Chez Alban has a warm Basque atmosphere from the French-Spanish border region and a touch of rugby mania. It does good pizzas.
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Snack Loan
This takeaway place specialises in Asian food - try the mouth-watering samosas. It's in a colonial house with a red roof.
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La Kasbah
This restaurant serves generous helpings of spicy Moroccan dishes. The Moroccan décor gives it a warm atmosphere.
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La Pointe des Antilles
This restaurant specialises in tasty West Indian cuisine. The atmosphere is authentic and helpings are generous.
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Boulangerie Marais
This bakery sells scrumptious croissants, chocolate squares, éclairs, fruit tarts and much much more.
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