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All Libyan restaurants!: Which soup?
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  • TheWanderingCamel
  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on February 10, 2006
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  • Yum! - Libya
    Yum!
    by TheWanderingCamel
    No matter where you eat in Libya, you can be sure the first thing on the menu will be soup!
    Always Libyan soup, maybe Moroccan soup, fish soup, lentil soup, vegetable soup ..... that's about the complete list - though one place I went to had a variation - prawn soup!

    It didn't worry me - I love soup and it was winter. The best I had was a vegetable soup at the Moroccan restaurant on the top floor of the Corinthia Hotel - probably the best vegetable soup I've ever tasted ( for the cooks amongst us - I'd say they made a really good vegetable stock, reduced and strained it to a clear intense broth and then added beautifully trimmed vegetables in tiny dice and sprigs and cooked them to a perfect al dente - it was fabulous!), but a bowl of lentil soup and a sandwich at the Badawen Restaurant (Lebanese) around the back of the Kabir Hotel made for an excellent lunch at 3LD for the soup, sandwiches (cheese and meat filled) and a Coke.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Address: Badawen Restaurant - Baladia St 110-112
  • Directions: A block behind the Kabir Hotel
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    Al-Makulaat al-Lubnaniya: Lebanese in Libya
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  • conny_bazen
  • Updated By conny_bazen on March 1, 2004
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  • Tripoli - Libya
    Tripoli
    by conny_bazen
    This was for me the best restaurant in Libya and it's wasn't one with a Libyan kitschen. This Lebanese restaurant has great mezze and that is what I really love. Also the soup is good and the mixed grill is great. At the end they bring you a nice glass of mint-tea. The prices are around 15 LD, a soft-drink included.

    MEZZE !!!!!

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  • Theme: Middle Eastern
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: less expensive than average
  • Address: Sharia al-Gargaresh, Tripoli
  • Phone: 4776978
  • Directions: it's not in the city-centre, but around 4 km away from it.
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    Mat'am al -Asddaf: Seafood in Benghazi
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  • By conny_bazen on February 11, 2004
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  • Benghazi - Libya
    Benghazi
    by conny_bazen
    Not a very cosy place but the seafood is great. They bring you first the hummus-dip with the bread and the salad, after that a fish-soup. Then you can taste a few different fish. Don't eat to much from everything because every time that you think it will be the last fish they bring you a new one !! The price is very reasonable: less than 20 LD

    The best hummusdip in the country if you ask me..........

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  • Theme: Seafood
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: less expensive than average
  • Address: Sharia Qar Yunis
  • Phone: 2223171
  • Directions: A bit out of town, take a taxi for 3 LD, it's right next to Funduq (hotel) an-Nadi Libya.
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    Sabratha, restaurant close to the ancient site
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  • sachara
  • By sachara on July 22, 2006
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  • shady garden - Libya
    shady garden
    by sachara, 4 more photos
    From Tripoli we visited the ancient site Sabratha during a trip of a whole day. At luch time we visited the restaurant just outside the entrance at the right hand side. We enjoyed the shady and green garden after the burning sun at the site. At the end of the day we came back for a drink before we went back to Tripoli by bus.

    You can sit in the garden under the roofs, but also close to the restaurant building under the wide porch.

    For lunch we took sandwiches kebab and fish. We tried the miranda ananas softdrinks and a red-coloured bittersoda.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: Sabratha
  • Directions: Just east of the parking lot at the entrance of the ancient site.
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    Essaa: dinner in the old town of Tripoli
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on June 13, 2006
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  • entrance of the restaurant - Libya
    entrance of the
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    by sachara,
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    The first evening we walked into the medina of Tripoli and found this lovely restaurant at the lifely square of the clocktower or Essaa tower. Outdoors at the terrace you can drink your tea or coffee or smoke the waterpipe.

    The interior of the restaurant has warm red and yellow colours. We had our dinner at the first floor with a splendid view at the square. Two musicians were playing oriental life-music just close to our table. The friendly waitors told us they came originally from Morocco. It was a rather popular place with many visitors, a mixture of locals and tourists.

    The restaurant serves fresh seafood and varied Libyan dishes. We took a delicious soup, salad, hummus, mixed meat and fish.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: more expensive than average
  • Address: Tripoli, old town
  • Phone: +218 91 219 0683
  • Directions: Close to the clocktower, a few minutes walk from the Green Square.
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    Tripoli, restaurant at the Marc Aurelius Arch
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on July 22, 2006
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  • view from the door of the restaurant - Libya
    view from the door of the
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    by sachara,
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    In the old city of Tripoli is a restaurant at an absolutily stunning location, just beside the Marcus Aurelius Arch. You can enter the restaurant at the lower floor by walking through the arch first. When I visited the arch during daytime, I took the chance to look around in the restaurant and its terrace as well. Unfortunatily I had not enough time in Tripoli to eat here myself.

    Though I didnīt eat here, I had a look at the menu and saw a big choice in Libyan dishes like tagines and couscous with meat or fish, soups, salads and desserts. Fellowtravellers who had here their dinner told me it was of good quality.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: more expensive than average
  • Directions: Just north-west of the Marcus Aurelius Arch in the old city.
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    Al Bayda, chicken restaurant
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  • sachara
  • By sachara on July 22, 2006
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    by sachara
    in Al Bayda we took our dinner two times in the same chicken restaurant at the main shopping street. There are a lot of chickenrestaurants all over Libya, but I don't know the names, because I don't read arabic. This one in Al Bayda was frequented by local people. The food was good and cheap, the staff was friendly and very fast in bringing the food.

    We ordered couscous and chicken, but they brought us nice soup and salad as well and many glasses of tea after dinner. And all for a very cheap price.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
  • Address: Al Bayda
  • Directions: At the main shopping street in Al Bayda
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    Ptolemais, lunch at the site
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  • sachara
  • By sachara on July 22, 2006
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  • our table in doors - Libya
    our table in doors
    by sachara, 3 more photos
    We arrived at Ptolemais around lunchtime. At the entrance of the ancient site under the shady trees were a lot of tables with benches and stairs all over the place. It was crowded with tourist busses. So all tables under the trees and in the restaurants were full. We ordered our lunch and went into the museum first for half an hour.

    We had a tasty lunch with Libyan soup, couscous with vegetables, chicken and fish. As dessert we had dates and coffee.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: Potlemais
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    Cyrene, restaurant close to the ancient site
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  • sachara
  • By sachara on July 22, 2006
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  • Cyrene, restaurant close to the ancient site - Libya
    Cyrene, restaurant close to
    the ancient site
    by sachara
    After visiting the ancient sites of Cyrene we visited one of the restaurants close to the entrance. From here we had a marvellous view at the site. During lunchtime it was rather crowded with toursit busses, but at the end of the afternoon we had the place almost for us alone.

    We didn't have a meal here, but we drunk a coffee, cappucino and tea.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Address: Cyrene
  • Directions: A few metres from the entrance and the shops
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    Shahhat, another chicken restaurant
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on July 22, 2006
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  • Shahhat - Libya
    Shahhat
    by sachara, 4 more photos
    When we arrived at the ancient site of Cyrene at lunchtime all the restaurants at the entrance were totally full. So we decided to head to the nearby town Shahhat.

    We stopped at one of the first restaurant we saw opposite the mosque. There were hardly any visitors, so we didn't need to wait very long for our meal. It was a chicken restauarant, not the first and not the last during our trip.

    The chicken with salad was very tasty. We tried another selection of softdrinks.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
  • Address: Shahhat
  • Directions: Along the road coming from Cyrene. I got a business card, but I can't read the arabic.
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