Restaurants in Vanuatu
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Market Meal Booths
This is the life, a million miles from your reality. Sit at a bright little table beside the market, and a cheery face appears at the booth window to pass you your orange cordial - there'll be no red cordial nonsense here. Nothing starts a meal like the smile of a ni-Van, then a choice of five dishes. Steak's the best. Watch it being cooked on a gas burner in the little booth. A flick and twist, a spoon of this and that from sealed plastic containers, and the meal is delicious.
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Deco Stop Restaurant
You're on top of the world, sitting around the beautiful pool, gazing way out over the channel, and looking through an excellent menu. But don't go past the poulet fish fillets, with Deco's secret sauce. And check for the curry night with a magic show.
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Natangora Café
Specialises in breakfast, home-roasted coffee, hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches and cakes. Sit out the back on the deck, for garden and canal views. The pleasant alfresco setting and reasonable prices make it popular with expats and ni-Vans alike.
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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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Ocean King Café & Restaurant
Fabulous fun place serving tasty meals like barbecue pork with fried rice, or garlic chicken fillet, served in the large dining room or out on the veranda. Very popular, as are your hosts Sharyn and Hilton. Go for the lunch special.
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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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Island Chicken & Fish
A charming little yellow place with blue tablecloths. Choose from steak, fish, chicken, pork or egg, served with rice, manioc, yam and salad. Of course, with Santo beef the steak's just too good to pass.
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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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Won Sing Sing Take Away Restaurant
Bench tables under a grand traditional roof give this little café a happy atmosphere. The chef is very good - check out the cakes! Come for breakfast. It will set you up for a cheerful day.
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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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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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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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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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Daily Pizza
An interesting variety of fresh meals including pizzas, Vietnamese shrimp rolls and dumplings etc.
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Tropik Bistrot
Its nondescript exterior belies a quaint candlelit interior. The food is French and very rich.
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Centrepoint Supermarket
Has rock bottom-priced takeaway lunches such as beef stew and rolls with various fillings.
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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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Santo Chinese Restaurant
This is a no-frills place with plates heaving under the generous serves.
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Santo Bakery
Pop into the bakery for yummy French batards.
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