Must-see restaurants in Southern Tunisia

  • Restaurant Fruit de Mer

    Southern Tunisia

    This hugely popular open-sided restaurant near the port serves up the best seafood in town and has plenty of staff on hand to efficiently keep the crowds…

  • Restaurant La Lune

    Southern Tunisia

    La Lune serves up healthy portions of pasta and pizza, but come instead for the rather good steak, beef stroganoff and excellent seafood. The candles on…

  • Restaurant Mazar

    Southern Tunisia

    Formerly the Oasis, this restaurant adds a touch of class to the usual fare, with both Tunisian and Franco-Arabe dishes served up in elegant if not…

  • Restaurant Le Rendez-Vous

    Douz

    A cheery restaurant tricked out in orange and blue, with dining room walls dedicated to the motor rallies that have always passed through the area. Or you…

  • Fastfood Ham Hama

    Tozeur

    This small place is hugely popular, serving up everything from chapatis and shawarma to rotisserie chicken and couscous. The side salads and beans are a…

  • Restaurant Dar Deda

    Tozeur

    A restaurant popular with tourists and locals alike with friendly service and an intimate candlelit atmosphere. The mains on the menu hold few surprises…

  • Tej El Khayem

    Douz

    Tej El Khayem has some of the better food in Douz, and you eat in a Berber-style tent or out on the sand, but it is heavily reliant on tour groups. The à…

  • Restaurant Ghilane

    Southern Tunisia

    This restaurant-cafe has a prime position next to Ksar Ghilane's spring. It serves up couscous and grilled meats, or soup and brik (savoury flaky pastry)…

  • La Casa

    Douz

    No-frills fast food place serving up pretty good pizzas and excellent sandwiches and shawarma plates – the turkey on the menu is especially tasty. Eat-in…

  • Restaurant Le Soleil

    Tozeur

    Make like you're in the palmeraie with the plaster palm tree decor at Le Soleil. The couscous is good here, along with the stews a la jarre (baked in a…

  • Restaurant Tozorous

    Tozeur

    This recommended restaurant serves up pasta, grilled meat and couscous dishes in a brick-walled dining room complete with a working coffee pot–shaped…

  • Restaurant de la République

    Tozeur

    Set back off the street, in an arcade next to the Mosque El Ferdous, this is an ever-popular local place and great for kebabs or couscous and salad.

  • Patisserie El Qods

    Tozeur

    A handy and welcoming place to drop into for a quick sandwich, or something sweet and sticky, washed down with a fresh juice or good coffee.

  • Pizzeria Azzura

    Tozeur

    One of the few Zone Touristique restaurants that have weathered the tourism downturn, Pizzeria Azzura serves quality pizzas.

  • Pizza Tomato

    Southern Tunisia

    This is a small, modern place done up in Italian-Tunisian decor. It's cute, and the pizzas are good.

  • Restaurant Paradiso

    Southern Tunisia

    A cheery restaurant with brightly coloured wood panelling and fun art on its blue walls that come as a pleasant surprise in such an unassuming location…

  • Centre d’Animation Bedouin

    Douz

    In happier times, this was a popular haunt for tourists, who were entertained over dinner with a floor show in an over-sized Berber tent. Those days may…

  • La Joconde

    Southern Tunisia

    Maybe Medenine's best place to eat is La Joconde, the restaurant of the Hôtel El Kssour. It has excellent Tunisian standards, including couscous and stews…

  • Patisserie Sahara

    Southern Tunisia

    Patisserie Sahara is a good place to fill up on corne de gazelle pastries shaped like gazelle’s horn and filled with chopped nuts soaked in honey, which…

  • Restaurant Semiramis

    Southern Tunisia

    It’s a bit of a dive but if you want to complement a standard Tunisian meal with a beer or glass of wine (and secondhand smoke), try Restaurant Semiramis,…

  • Chez Abdoul

    Southern Tunisia

    A cheery hotel with terrace just across the road from the louage station, and the only good eating option outside the hotels. Expect standard Tunisian…

  • Pizzeria les Princes

    Douz

    If you need a break from couscous, this bright and clean fast-food-style place might be an option. As well as some big pizzas, you can get chapatis,…

  • Restaurant Essendabad

    Southern Tunisia

    Across from the local bus station, Essendabad has a range of grilled chicken, couscous and the like, though it’s filled as much with people waiting for…

  • Corne de Gazelle

    Southern Tunisia

    A good patisserie to pick up a corne de gazelle pastry filled withchopped nuts soaked in honey and shaped like a gazelle’s horn, Tataouine's signature…

  • Restaurant Pino

    Southern Tunisia

    Pino is a pleasant and modern canteen restaurant, serving up large portions of the standard meat dishes, plus salads and pizzas. The 2nd-floor dining room…

  • Restaurant Ben Kachoukha

    Southern Tunisia

    An unassuming and no-nonsense place, Ben Kachoukha serves a regular clientele but welcomes strangers. It serves standard Tunisian fare and freshly caught…

  • Restaurant Erriadh

    Southern Tunisia

    One of several like-minded restaurants next to the bus station, serving quick, unpretentious servings of grilled chicken, Tunisian salads and the like.

  • Restaurant Abid

    Southern Tunisia

    This is a sparkling-clean place with a bright checkerboard floor and high-backed chairs serving Tunisian fare. A popular lunch spot.

  • Restaurant El Khima

    Southern Tunisia

    If you want to eat in over-the-top kitsch surroundings, try this place in the Jugurtha Palace west of town. Alcohol is served.

  • Mac’Dor

    Southern Tunisia

    Like its American namesake, Mac’Dor is usually hopping, though the menu here is mostly hearty shawarma and pizza.

  • Restaurant Chez Magic

    Douz

    A lunchtime favourite with locals, all tucking into speedily served dishes of couscous, soups, salads and grills.

  • Café de la Corbeille

    Southern Tunisia

    Take in the setting over a coffee at the Café de la Corbeille, which has a terrace overlooking La Corbeille.

  • Restaurant El Jawhara

    Southern Tunisia

    Basic restaurant offering chapattis, briks (savoury flaky pastry) and so on. Decent but unexciting.

  • As You Like Chapati

    Southern Tunisia

    The name says it all at this lively fast-food-style joint – it’s good, tasty and very filling.

  • Restaurant El Baraka

    Southern Tunisia

    Cheap Tunisian standards of soup, chicken, and couscous, in a handy location for the bus station.

  • Restaurant La Medina

    Southern Tunisia

    Fair and cheap but unsurprising Tunisian standards are served up in this restaurant.

  • Restaurant Les Sources

    Southern Tunisia

    A a small, modern restaurant with Tunisian standards, grilled chicken and the like.

  • Restaurant Du Sud

    Southern Tunisia

    Basic eatery serving grilled meat, chapattis, sandwiches and couscous.

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