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Antananarivo Hotels: 182 Reviews - 440 Photos
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Toamasina Hotels: 38 Reviews - 65 Photos
Salary Avaratra Hotels: 2 Reviews - 3 Photos
Nosy Sainte Marie Hotels: 12 Reviews - 43 Photos
Morondava Hotels: 37 Reviews - 135 Photos
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Nosy Mangabe Hotels: 2 Reviews - 14 Photos
Manakara Hotels: 1 Review - 6 Photos
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Ifaty Hotels: 7 Reviews - 31 Photos
Betanty Hotels: 2 Reviews - 1 Photo
Antsiranana Hotels: 8 Reviews - 2 Photos

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KU DÉ TA: IT'S A COUP ALRIGHT!

by DAO

It’s a coup alright. This fantastic restaurant manages to make French influenced food taste great, have an artful presentation AND give you enough food to survive on. That’s impressive. The service was friendly and always a glance away from appearing at my table. Even something as simple as pâté (pictured) was sublime. It was a variety of pâtés including one made with vanilla. This is simply the best pâté I have ever had the absolute pleasure of eating. The décor was humorous yet still reflected Malagasy heritage. I showed up without a reservation and was made to feel welcome and received a very good table. I highly recommend this fine eatery. My beer was cold, my service warm and my food hot. It is just a fantastic dinning experience. It is one of my world favourite restaurants. It is expensive by local standards, but a fraction of what you would pay in Paris and clearly one of the best...

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Le Cocoteraie: Le Cocoteraie

by ATLC

Langouste, grilled to perfection, eaten outsideLe Cocoteraie is also the top hotel on the island.We came here by boat from hotel Le Crique, along a wonderfully blue sea under blazing sun. After lunch we napped on the beach and found sea stars. Langouste !

Hotel Anita: A little taste of Madagascar

by daleduscher

Hotel Anita, located just outside of downtown, has pretty good food. Some fish, pasta, beef and pork, most items are grilled, some fried. A common item in Madagascar is a little meat stuffed pastry, fried, called a Sambo. If you go, dont forget to try them, they are very good.Also, they have a ground up pepper sauce to put on your food. BE WARNED: these little peppers are by far the hottes thing I have ever eaten, and will take you by surprise, tread lightly! The sambos Deep fried, spicey, bite size finger food, whats not to love. Also, the cooks are willing to make food " made to order".

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HÔTEL DE FRANCE RESTAURANT: IT MAKES ME SICK !

by DAO

'La Brasserie' is a delightful looking restaurant inside the Hôtel de France. I saw the beautiful décor and smartly attired waiters one night and decided that I would eat here the night before I left on my travels across the island. I was greeted cheerfully and seated. Then I was served a wonderful looking and tasting Salade Niçoise (Pictured). This was followed by a beef dish (also pictured) and washed down with a good bottle of wine. Delightful. As soon as I returned to my hotel, I became violently sick. I have never been ill after a meal in Africa before or since. I was ill and at least had heartburn for almost a week afterwards. While I was on my tour, the guide told me he was aware of others who had become ill there. He said that they had changed management recently and things that things were imported frozen rather than be sourced locally and that standards had slipped. I suggest...

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Be cautious if you have special dietary needs

by peachfront

I'm going to go out on a limb and offer some generalities about the food when you are traveling for wildlife viewing in Madagascar. In some areas, you will have a very limited choice of restaurants, perhaps only one restaurant to choose from, and service can be very slow. Also, if you have a special dietary requirement, such as wheat allergies or low carb, you might strongly consider picking up some supplies, such as canned sardines in the Shoprite in Tana before you head out. I didn't see any low carb breakfast bars in Tana, not saying they don't exist, but I brought my own South Beach bars from home just in case. If it's really important to you to count your carbs, you should probably consider doing the same thing.At times, the only choice of breakfast might be a classic Parisian breakfast of French bread, jam, butter, and coffee. If you can't eat wheat and didn't bring your own food,...

Ravitoto

by Norali

Was there a dish that could be qualified as our "national dish", ravitoto it would be. Still, romazava créole (leaves, zébu meat & ginger stock), voanjobory sy henakisoa (round pea & pork meat) could snatch this title to ravitoto. Malagasy style turkey (turkey & pork meat) also uses to be the classical main dish at a local wedding... but ravitoto is well, ravitoto.So, what is all about ? Ground manioc (or cassava) leaves cooked with pork meat. The tender leaves are almost micronised, use to be ground in a mortar with a pilar. It is as delicious as... Nothing to compare to it. Especially when the oil in the pan has acquired this dark green colour by the cooking. We do not add oil to the dish, only the fat of the pork meat would cook & dampen it. A cook has succeeded this dish when one can see the "tar" or "goudron" as we use to name it... It is the darkened oil I talked about earlier....

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Restaurants along Le Grand Sud route

by Norali

Below are some restaurants & other eateries addresses along RN7 or the so-called Le Grand Sud route (the Big South). You may need this list if you travel on your own (or with a driver but on self-imposed schedule) & do not intend to eat at streetstalls with their share of health hazards risks.1/ Halfway between Tana & Antsirabe, you could make a halt at Ambatolampy to dine on frogs (panés with garlic) & snails à la provençale (butter, parlsey, garlic) at Au rendez-vous des pêcheurs. Dessert, have their cornet crème. Delicious! Just be warned that as it relates more to a autogrill, there wouldn't be that many dishes to choose from. The cold cuts & crudités starter is quite generous. Ambatolampy is also the place where to shop for aluminium items or visit aluminium kettles workshops.2/ Many times we passed through Ihazoala, some 84km southward Tana, and noticed this sign claiming to serve...

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Romazava, the "other" national dish

by Norali

Although I use to consider ravitoto as our national dish, Romazava is largely considered as our national dish. It is served all over the island with small variations... So far, I can only recommend a restaurant that serves it well as my dinings out use(d) to be to taste foreign cuisines. Romazava is sometimes called "Romazava créole", it is found in the cuisine of créole island of La Réunion, for instance. Still, it hails from Madagascar. "Ro" means "stock" and "Mazava" means "clear" & seems they use is Malagasy name in La Réunion too. Now, the name does not tell much about the richness of this dish. It is a stock dish obtained from the cooking of 4 zébu meats (knee, the rear back, tail, ribs) with several anana. Anana are leaves that are largely used in our cuisine: are included anamamy (spinach type, also called "brèdes morelles" in French), watercress, different Chinese cabbages,...

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Malagasy food

by Norali

It is where building a restaurant tip on a country page requires a bit of ... organization. After a long long reflexion, I decided to only lits here tips about Maalgasy food. Only about what we use to eat, indulge, swallow, dine on, sip, drink - not about addies. Sooo.. Restaurant Tips in this Madagascar page are only about introducing local fooding customs, ingredients, dishes, snacks, cooking techniques... Addies ? Browse the city pages. The only addies you'll find in my Madagascar pages are:- those of restaurants located in cities I haven't built a page of yet.- those of restaurants, eateries I tried along a roadtrip route. Good example: RN7 Grand Sud restaurants. Cooking technique... Here are pictures of chillies... very common ingredients in Malagasy cuisine. Or should I say in Malagasy eating habit. We do not cook our dishes with chillies although a chili paste is always on the...

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Hot Snacks

by Norali

A list of popular snacks (and God knows how much Malagasy love to have snacks!):- Samosas & quatles & kebabs: the best things the Indo-Paki community ever brought to us... probably the favourite of all snacks. Pic1;- Mofoanana: a kind of chopped onions & tomato & anana (diverse green leaves that are used in Malagasy cuisine, such as pak choi & other cabbages, watercress...). Pic3;- Masikita: tiny garlic marinated meat dices kebabs. Avoid the ones on streetstalls, however & whatever tempting they look & smell. Thinking of where tourists can have some of it... dunno! Pic2;- Nems: Vietnamese rolls (chopped pork meat, Chinese mushroom, chopped prawns, condimennts...), a big fave too! The best are still in Vietnamese restaurants, not the Chinese nor the Malagasy ones ! I know that in 80s Duan Van Bien (Restaurant in Behoririka) used to be a great place to have nems, stuffed crabs... Need to...

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