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Try the Palm Wine
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  • Wafro
  • Updated By Wafro on June 26, 2004
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  • The Gambia Restaurants
    by Wafro
    When you’re in Africa you certainly should try the local specialties.
    One of them is Palm Wine, they tap the wine on top of the tree without destroying it.
    The prices are different in each country, but you can buy almost 2 liters of palm wine for the price of one large beer.
    You’ll have to drink a lot of this fluent too get drunk.
    ENJOY IT!!!

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  • Theme: African
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
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    Ali Baba: Senegambia area, open air restaurant
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 7, 2005
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  • Ali baba, garden - The Gambia
    Ali baba, garden
    by sachara
    Around the corner of the Ali Baba restaurant you will find the exchange office, the internetcafe, some more restaurants and several shops.

    At the backside of the Ali Baba bar & restaurant is a lovely garden. Here you can have your meals too. This is also the place to go for listening to local bands and dancing.

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  • Theme: Eclectic/International
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: South Kololi, Senegambia area
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    Ali Baba and others: Senegambia area, the place to meet
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 5, 2005
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  • Ali Baba - The Gambia
    Ali Baba
    by sachara
    In the Senegambia area, the road to the Senegambia Hotel at the beach you will find several restaurants, a few supermarkets, an internetcafe, exchange office and the Senegambian craftmarket.

    It's the place to meet. There are a lot of tourists around. You can sit at the terraces and chose to eat Italian, Lebanese, Caribbean, Gambian or international.

    Everybody knows the Ali Baba Restaurant, so it's a good meeting point . You can park around the corner. Just sit at the terrace and wait till your friends will arrive.

    For lunch I liked the tuna salad at the terrace of Ali Baba. For pizza's I went to Paradisio La Parisienne at the same side of the road about 50 M from Ali Baba.

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  • Theme: Eclectic/International
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: South Kololi, Senegambia area
  • Phone: 461030
  • Directions: South of the road to the Senegambia Hotel.
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    Babula´s café: Ker Serigne, local food
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  • sachara
  • Updated By sachara on February 7, 2005
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  • Babula´s café - The Gambia
    Babula´s café
    by sachara
    In Ker Serigne, the place where we stayed for a few days, were a few local restaurants. Our favourite was Babula's cafe, where they served very cheap and delicious local dishes for a few euros.

    Most of the evenings there was no electricity at Babula's, so we had dinner with candlelight. At our third visit there was suddenly electric light. So I could see the place and found out it was also indoors quite a lovely café. It seemed even to be a bed and breakfast address.

    I took all the three times the local dish with chicken. I forgot the local name of it. At our third and last visit they offered us a lot of extra chicken, rice and pommes frites for free.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
  • Address: Ker Serigne
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    Paradisso and homecooking: Eat with the people
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  • David&Pauline
  • Updated By David&Pauline on December 26, 2006
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  • Lucas & Akoli cook for us in Nature - The Gambia
    Lucas & Akoli cook for us in
    Nature
    by David&Pauline
    Kololi has a government-controlled restaurant on the road to the Monkey Park, with a good selection of local dishes. Paradisso Bar & Restaurant in Kololi is a very friendly, budget priced eatery with a large choice of dishes. The river camp we stayed at on our visit to Janjanbureh did us an excellent couple of meals, though be sure to wash your hands as cutlery is not always provided. We'd really recommend you buying some fresh local produce and sharing it with the locals, the Gambians are all good cooks. There could be a bit of a problem if you have a peanut allergy, domodah is the national dish!

    Benachin has to be one of the best dishes, that's the spiced meat or fish and rice with tomato puree and vegetables. Ask for it as spicey as the locals eat it.

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  • Theme: African
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Address: The Paradisso is on the main road in Sengambia
  • Phone: 462177
  • Directions: You'll find it towards the end of the Senegambia tourist area, near the airport road
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    Lamin Lodge
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  • Updated By traveldave on February 8, 2007
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    by traveldave
    Lamin Lodge is a restaurant built on stilts among the mangroves overlooking the Gambia River. (Lamin means "first-born son" in the local Mandinka language). To reach the restaurant, patrons must cross a causeway through the mangrove swamp, where they may see water birds and small fish in the water.

    The multi-level restaurant is constructed entirely of split logs, and it seems as if there are few, if any, flat surfaces in the whole structure. The building does not seem very sturdy, and it creaks in high winds. Patrons can even see the water underneath the building through cracks in the flooring.

    My group had lunch in the third-floor watch tower, which provided great views over the mangroves and river. We were even able to birdwatch while enjoying our lunch, seeing herons, egrets, kites, vultures, terns, and kingfishers.

    The Lamin Lodge features fresh seafood caught from the nearby river, including several types of fish, oysters, and shrimp. (The mouth of the Gambia River contains salt water and therefore seafood). I had ladyfish with rice, and it was the best-tasting meal I had during my two weeks in West Africa.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Comparison: less expensive than average
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    ?: Pizza joint
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  • JustinJansen
  • Updated By JustinJansen on March 28, 2005
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  • African waxbill - The Gambia
    African waxbill
    by JustinJansen
    Just opposite Senegambia there is a Pizza Joint. Prices are good and compared with Senegambia prices are very good. Food is ok, and owners and waiters are very friendly. Very advisable to eat over here, when try to be a bit budget when in The Gambia

    Pizza's are ok!
    And the coffee!

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  • Theme: Pizza
  • Price: US$11-20    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: less expensive than average
  • Directions: Opposite Senegambia Hotel
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    Aisia Marie Cinema Restaurant: Fast food, Gambian style
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  • David&Pauline
  • By David&Pauline on December 24, 2006
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  • Get a takeaway from here and enjoy it at Marie's - The Gambia
    Get a takeaway from here and
    enjoy it at Marie's
    by David&Pauline
    This place is a gem, opposite the Suma Hotel and used to supply Lana’s Bar, Serrakunda’s top tourist pub, with its food. It’s situated in the cinema’s forecourt, offering an inexpensive dish of the day during lunch hours. You can bring your own beer from the bottle shop just around the corner. Sayerr Jobe Avenue has many fine local restaurants at local prices

    This cafe does a delicious takeaway fish and pasta supper, wrapped in foil. You can take it to your favourite pub or into the cinema!

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: least expensive
  • Address: Sayerr Jobe Avenue
  • Directions: Opposite Suma Hotel and in the cinema forecourt.
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    Michel's Seafood Restaurant: Top Restaurant in Banjul
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  • geordiebutcher
  • Updated By geordiebutcher on September 27, 2007
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    by geordiebutcher
    A clean restaurant with lovely staff who will do everything they possibly can to make your stay in The Gambia enjoyable. They prepared and cooked a special meal for my wife and I plus two friends just because I asked what was in a particular African dish. The beer is half the price you pay in the hotel (35 dalasis for a bottle of julbrew) There is a big menue with a large variety so there will be something to suit everyone, from a cheese sandwich to an African dish such as Supa Kanja Try the Cinnamon Ice Cream with Grand mother's sauce it's fabulous

    Curry soup, a thin soup that tasts just like my local chinese,
    Followed by
    Butterfish with baked potato
    And to finnish
    Cinnamon Ice Cream with Grandmothers Sauce

    I could eat it right now!
    Bon Appertite

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  • Theme: African
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: 29 Independance Drive
  • Phone: 4223108 / 7788066
  • Directions: Just a stone's throw from Arch 22
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    Little places to eat.
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  • Jorry
  • By Jorry on November 30, 2002
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    by Jorry
    This a little restaurant on the beach.
    They don't have a lot but it is OK
    Prices are not to bad.

    We did not like the Palmwine.

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  • Theme: African
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  • Address: Beach of Kotu
  • Directions: Kotu Beach
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