Tunis Restaurants

  1. 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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  2. Café Ez-Zitouna

    Beautifully tiled arched rooms, full of fragrant smoke, open to the street.

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  3. Dar El-Medina

    Tunis' loveliest hotel has several salons and a roof terrace where you can take a tea, coffee, fruit juice or sheesha (waterpipe used to smoke tobacco).

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  4. 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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  5. M'Rabet Café

    Traditional Turkish café, with pillars painted in stick-of-rock stripes, rush-mat seating on raised platforms, and an airy courtyard.

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