Toliara Restaurants

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I unexpectedly encountered my best meal in Madagascar in the arboretum outside Tulear.

The restaurant provides welcome respite from the blazing sun and heat, and offers a small menu - if the other options are anywhere near as good as what we had, then you wouldn't need any more choice!

Favorite Dish: We started our meal with a glass of chilled baobab juice - presumably made from the seeds of the baobab fruit, which are rich in cream of tartar. It was absolutely delicious - tart, refreshing and - oh joy! - icy, icy cold: so much so that we downed it in a few gulps and asked for a refill, only to be disappointed that they only make a limited quantity per day (which we had obviously just exhausted).

My main course was a cheese salad because it was just too damn hot to have anything more substantial. The result was absolutely perfect - a variety of french-style hard and soft cheeses on a bed of crisp, varied salad leaves with an accent of red onion. Simplicity can be perfection - and this was.