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La Gerbe d'Or is a good place for bread, croissants and pastries. You can also buy yoghurt and milkshakes.
At the second floor is a nice and peaceful restaurant, which serves sandwiches, pizzas and also a full menu. It's a popular place, so it can be crowded at luchtime.
I had a good pizza and a delicious milkshake for 2.500 CFA Leave a Comment Theme: BakeryPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: In the citycentre of Cotonou, Avenue ClozelPhone: 314258
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Just opposite the entrance of the Voodoo Museum is a nice open air restaurant.
Here you can sit outdoors in the shade and feel some breeze, having your cool drink and African meal.
I had a delicous and cheap local meal of chicken with couscous.
Joyce, a small kid, was sitting at my side, holding my arm. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveDirections: In the centre of Ouidah, opposite the Voodoo Museum.
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The food in Benin is excellent. I was very surprised at the quality of the food in the hotels and restaurants and the quantity of fresh food available everywhere I travelled. The climate in the South, where my trip was mostly based, allows an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetable of all types to be grown Mangos, Pineapples, Bananas, Carrots, Rice, Potatos, Beetroot, Cabbage
the list is endless.
The French have left a legacy of delicious freshly baked bread.
The many lakes, rivers and the coast means a plentiful supply of fresh fish, and the variety of fresh meat is amazing I had pork, pigeon, lamb, chicken, beef. You can also get great pizzas and pasta dishes and even curry!
Mineral water and cola are widely available as well as fresh fruit juices. There is a good choice of imported and local beer. The one I preferred was the local Beninoise. The local gin is called Sodabe and is made from palm trees and Cassava. It costs 1200 CFA, less than 2, and is said to be very strong - I didn't try it.
All the places I ate had a very high standard of cooking. Individual restaurant tips will be added to the pages of the places I visited soon.
This is one holiday where I did not lose weight!
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I ate dinner in hotels and lunch in restaurants - all were better class places and I had excelent food. Some of the best places I ate were the Songhai centre in Porto Novo where all the food is grown on the plantation there so is mega-fresh, the Auberge Grand Popo, and the Hotel du Lac in Cotonou. I have to say I didn't eat a bad meal in the 8 days I was in Benin.
Costs in good hotels are about 2000 to 4000 CFA for dinner or lunch (3 to 6) and similar in the restaurants.
Beer was around 1300 CFA (2) and mineral water varied greatly from 400 CFA to 800 CFA (0.6 to 1.2) The most I paid was a whopping 1500 CFA (2) in the hotel du Port in Cotonou.
There is plenty of food available for sale, particularly fruit and vegetables and chickens. Fruit and most vegetables are reasonably priced but meat is expensive and it must be difficult for ordinary people to buy it. Prices of course depend on where you are - if you are near the coast or the lake fish is cheap.
In the voodoo ceremonies it is normally chickens that are sacrificed as these are the cheapest. Sometimes goats are used.
Here are some examples of costs -
Pineapple 100 CFA (0.15)
Mangos 5 for 100 CFA (0.15)
Bananas 300 CFA for a bunch of about 12 (0.45)
A rabbit 3000 CFA (4.5)
A sheep 40,000 to 70,000 CFA (60 to 107)
A goat 40,000 to 70,000 CFA (60 to 107)
A cow 70,000 CFA to 150,000 CFA (107 to 230)
A chicken 1,000 to 3,000 CFA (1.50 to 3) Theme: Local
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If you really want to push your luck eat from one of the many street vendors along any road or pathway. I was able to bring some Miltary, Meals Ready to Eat. A Lifesaver for me.
You see lots of fried fish.
I was not brave enough to try the vendors. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: Anywhere that there is an available space.
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Heres where the locals come for lunch, and you dont get much cheaper than this - for a few hundred CFA youll get a filling meal. The restaurants consist of a few pots filled with delicious stuff, usually meat and/or fish stews, and a variety of staples such as rice, pounded ngam, pasta, and a few benches with tables. If you, like me, are a vegetarian and lucky they also have a green veggie sauce called someting like Krang-krang (prounounced with your nose) - this stuff is slimier than ghost busters. Leave a Comment
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Indiana is in Cocotiers. This is a purely indian restaurant. The food is good and is any Indian's favourite in benin. The interiors are not plush, but then it is cosy. It is open for lunch and dinner and is closed on mondays.
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When we were travelling to Niger by road, we had to spent the night at the Malanville border. The border is secluded, with not much traffic and Malanville is a small town. We tried to figure out whether we can find any hotel to stay and that is when for the first time we landed up in Stables du Roses. It is run by a european couple, there are rooms available for one to stay and the restaurant is also good.
We made it a point to stop here on every trip of ours. Theme: FrenchPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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Youll find these little places all over Benin, serving omelets, bread, coffe etc. Perfect for breakfast! Leave a Comment
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I still dont quite get it - boiled ngam (yams in english i guess) are fantastic, yet they work superhard at pounding them with huge sticks to make a sticky porridge type dish, wich is, admittely, really good too. Try to get near a foufou place when theyre in action, the rythmic sound made when a few people are a-pounding makes your hip shake. Leave a Comment
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