Restaurants in Tunisia
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Restaurant Capitole
This small place is popular with Tunisian families but the service is slow and it's worth it to pre-order especially for the metabgha (Berber pizza; around TD3, pre-order only). Camel steak is also on the menu.
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Café de Paris Brasserie
A very handy little place (great for kids), with a nice, clean little interior and a few outside tables. Choose from pizzas, couscous and a good range of salads, such as Roquefort and walnut. Also serves alcohol.
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Restaurant-Bar Le Petit Prince
Dining under the palms, sipping a fine wine while listening to music is a special experience. This restaurant is tucked in behind a wall a short walk past the arch and serves quality French and Tunisian cuisine.
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Roi Roi du Couscous
A raucous place by Tunisian standards, this restaurant-bar is filled with men, smoke and beer, even in the middle of the day. It's not exactly the cleanest place in town but big servings of couscous are served.
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Neptune
With its curly wrought-iron chairs, Formica tabletops and wicker-framed mirrors that could have been plucked from 1970s suburbia, this chirpy place has simple Tunisian favourites, including fresh fish.
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Restaurant Tip Top
Tip Top is your standard tourist restaurant though it seems to be more popular than others, possibly because their street-side touting waiters are more vocal. The seafood is good though expensive.
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Café Chaoechin
The oldest Medina café, where sheeshas (waterpipe used to smoke tobacco) gurgle among the ornate cubby-holes of the hat-makers' souq, with rickety painted tables under tiled arches.
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Dar Hamouda Pacha
Whitewashed alcoves around small, calm courtyards, and mute-coloured sofas - this is the chichi way to smoke your sheesha (waterpipe used to smoke tobacco); has good Turkish coffee.
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L'Orient
Cluttered and busy. Tall ceilings, brick arches, swords, shells, and yellow-and-green swirling tiling all supply a strong Andalusian flavour, matched by the seafood slant of the menu.
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Restaurant Ali Baba
It's a little derelict looking and the backyard garden is cramped, still this traveller-friendly place about 100m north of the roundabout, is a pleasant place for a quiet evening.
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Restaurant Les Andalous
Overlooking the garden of the Hôtel du Jardin, this restaurant has high-end trappings and a better-than-average menu and, at least as important, wine and alcohol are served.
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Andalous
Dimly lit by ornate lanterns and decorated with carved wooden screens, this has a Moroccan feel, a discreet TV in the corner, affable waiters and tasty seafood and meat dishes.
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M'Rabet
Above the busy traditional café, this is a formal small restaurant with good views of the Zaytouna Mosque, specialising in Tunisian dishes and mainly catering to groups.
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Restaurant Karawan
A clean, friendly family-run place, the Karanwan serves the usual couscous and meat dishes though the tajines and briqs appetizers are particularly good.
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Planet Oasis Tozeur
Gorge on a buffet while watching a sound and light shows at the Planet Oasis Tozeur deep in the middle of the palmeraie. These are only staged for large groups.
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Restaurant Bel Habib
On the ground floor of the cheapie hotel of the same name, the Bel Habib is comfortable and tourist friendly. The menu is no surprise: couscous, meat and chicken dishes.
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Carcassonne
Remarkable value is the name of the game at this small, popular, friendly place, with good-quality traditional food in pleasant, relaxed surroundings. Service is fast.
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Capri
A bit cramped, with lots of pinewood on two levels, this is a lively place popular with heavily smoking businessmen. It serves alcohol alongside good simple seafood.
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Abid
With a busily tiled interior, TV, flickering neon and simple Tunisian staples (specialising in spicy Sfaxian dishes), this is a good-value neighbourhood favourite.
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Restaurant La Medina
A no-nonsense eatery 100m northeast of place Bab el-Hawa, the Medina is clean and friendly and the service prompt. Try the ragout d'haricot (bean stew).
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Restaurant Tozorous
This highly recommended restaurant serves up pizza, meat and chicken dishes in a brick-walled dining room complete with a working fountain in the centre.
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Margaritas
You get good service, cooking and value at this business and tourist favourite: a small hotel restaurant decorated in dusky mauve and dark wood.
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central market
Self-caterers will find fruits and veggies at the central marketThere are more market stalls just across ave Habib Bourguiba.
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Restaurant de la Jeunesse
This is the place to get couscous in the heart of the medina. The restaurant is tourist-friendly though it's worth double checking your bill.
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Capitole
This long-standing place has tasty traditional food, served in a slightly flouncy function room, with views over the busy main drag below.
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