Douala Restaurants

Confidential area, smooth and for friends who know that it exists. Very good Music Band will play for you. People will take care of you, and any food is perfect. You will eat quietly, on chairs or sofa. Meat, Fish, ... european good cooking. Feel like in your private place where anybody know each other. You can have a drink at the Bar before, or play pool after, or enjoy the cabaret area with very good music and participative ambiance. Feel good, and no need to change place for enjoy your evening and night, ... up to ... very late.

Favorite Dish: I very often eat ... different foods here. Boeuf Bourguignon, Blanquette de Veau, Côte de Boeuf grillée, Grilled Fish or Meat, Gambas à l'Espagnole, ... with good wine (not expensive), and never forget Crêpes Flambées or Profiterôles. So many good things.

I am always a little more than leery about eating sushi in the third world and I thought the sight of Africans wearing kimonos was a bit odd…but Okinawa proved to have pretty good sushi as well as other Japanese specialties.

Another great meal in Douala…the German Seamen’s mission serves up grilled sausages and other meats each night in the open-air courtyard of the mission and Wednesday nights they even have potato salad…but then again nothing goes better with the grilled foodstuffs than an ice cold pint of “33.”

The Medi offers up pretty good grub for cheap, cheap…nice pasta dishes, good pizzas and excellent salads (love those Cameroon tomatoes) top the menu and it’s hard to beat the covered open-air patio. With all overhead fans blowing air down on you, one might even forget they are sitting just six degrees north of the equator…

Favorite Dish: The Salad Greque...with a healthy serving of tomatoes dripping in olive oil and oregano, this salad is hard to beat in Douala....

The Colonial is an open air restaurant with set behind an old "colonial" facade....the place serves up surf and turf with a local flare with excellent views of the Western sky over the Atlantic Ocean and the fishmen in their dugout canoes on the Wouri River...

Favorite Dish: The seafood is pretty good, the portions of the Captaine are large and meaty...the Sole is a bit thin, but tasty all the same....naturally, these dishes are washed down with some "33".....I just hope the catch doesn't come from the Wouri River.....

Wherever you are in the world, you can always find a Chinese restaurant... Restaurant Chinois was "alright" and that's to say it was nothing special. The food was what you would expect to see in a Chinese restaurant and the ambience was a little better than most places in Douala... Perhaps the most interesting thing about Restaurant Chinois is the salute you get from the guards in front of the place.