Port Vila Restaurants

  1. Au Péché Mignon

    A very French patisserie with mushroom pizza you'll keep going back for, and cheesecake you should order in advance in case it sells out.

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  2. Café Deli

    A spacious casual lunch venue with salads, sushi, baguettes, pies, and imported chocolates and cheeses. Watch out for the curry nights.

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  3. Centrepoint Supermarket

    Has rock bottom-priced takeaway lunches such as beef stew and rolls with various fillings.

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  4. Daily Pizza

    An interesting variety of fresh meals including pizzas, Vietnamese shrimp rolls and dumplings etc.

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  5. El Gecko

    Relaxed courtyard dining, fabulous food, great menu, and such friends for waiters. Try the garlic and brown sugar on poulet with kumula (sweet potato) mash and veg.

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  6. Flaming Bull Steakhouse

    Among so many great places to eat, one expects to choose some fab French cuisine. But Flaming Bull's eye fillet on mash is impossible to beat. Add the big hug from the waiter and the outrageous atmosphere and you too will keep coming back. Vanuatu beef is good - organic from contented cows that graze around coconut plantations - but then the seafood is straight from the water to you, so the coconut-crumbed prawns are tempting. There's live music later, with local bands playing mellow love songs.

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  7. Harbour View Restaurant

    A lovely outdoor setting, and a large selection of Cantonese cuisine, but stick to the sizzle plates or bird's nests to avoid the gluggy sauces.

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  8. Jill's Café

    Try one of Jill's famous American-style breakfasts at a table out the back and watch the boats, because you may be here a while - service is slow.

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  9. Kanpai Bar & Sushi Japanese Restaurant

    It's new and it's great. Japanese tranquillity with Vanuatu exotica, an interesting view of the bay, and a great range of food. Try the lunch box to explore the variety.

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  10. L'Houstalet

    Famous for 30 years for its flying fox and wild pigeon, it offers much more than that, with great atmosphere, large comfortable armchairs, and irresistible feathery omelettes stuffed with lobster.

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  12. La Pizzeria

    This simple little place has great comfort food like the best osso buco or fish curry you've ever had. It's a popular spot with expats who chat away to you, and for pizza (eat-in or takeaway).

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  13. Le Café du Village

    Housed in pretty French colonial buildings against a sea wall. Be tempted by Mediterranean and French meals, just kick back with a drink, or come for the champagne and lobster breakfast and watch the activity on the bay as the day gets underway.

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  14. Les Alizé's Restaurant

    Up here in the hills is the best seafood casoulet topped with grilled scallops. Magic. Stay on after the kitchen closes, listening to the evening sounds, watching the lights of Port Vila twinkle. If you book, you will be picked up and returned for free.

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  15. Quick Meals at the Market

    At the ocean end are benches where chicken or fish meals are cooked on the spot.

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  16. Roxy's on the Lagoon

    Erakor's gorgeous restaurant. Gaze out over the lagoon, as Chef Matthew Lambert prepares the best seared yellowfin tuna. There's an extensive menu and pleasant surroundings; check out the special nights.

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  17. Sea View Restaurant & Takeaway

    The best place for fast food. Upstairs, the restaurant is gorgeous, especially at dusk when lights twinkle on the water. The lunch specials like coconut-oated calamari with salad and a Tusker beer are always excellent.

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  18. Tilly's

    Built around Chantilly's sunny foyer. Drink in superb bay views, or take your meal, maybe baked poulet on crispy potato roast with papaya and lime dressing, out onto the private jetty. There's also a great tapas menu.

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  19. Tropik Bistrot

    Its nondescript exterior belies a quaint candlelit interior. The food is French and very rich.

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  20. Vila Chaumières Restaurant

    Sits romantically over the waters of palm-fringed and floodlit Emden Lagoon and serves delicious meals, like chicken with green peppercorn sauce, or fab fish curry (fis long sel kokonas) . The fare is mostly French with some English staples. Be sure to book, and ask for a waterside table.

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  21. Waterfront Bar & Grill

    It's the place for yachties, but it burnt down in late 2005. The new restaurant will be better than ever, with the same hours, same prices, and hopefully the same excellent menu with specialities like beef ribs, vegetarian manicotti (pasta shells), Mexican dishes and fab Tahitian fish salad.

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  23. Wild Pig Restaurant

    The chef here is famous for his beef Wellington - quite the best you'll ever have. But then there's his lobster bisque and steamed fish in champagne. Yumm.

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