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Small anonymous restaurant. When I ask "what can we eat", the manager lifted a metal slab closing a parallelepiped made of concrete blocks and showed skewers fitted with pieces of lamb that had slowly steamed in a kind of home made "Berber oven". Good meal for two with 1/2 kilo of lamb, spaghettis, a mechouia salad, a bottle of water and two mint teas for 13 dinars (10 euros). No alcoholic beverage.
After dinner, we could watch the preparation of the next meal to cook in the oven. The owner took out of the fridge half a lamb and began to cut it in small pieces. Then he threaded these pieces on wooden skewers and weighted each skewer on a Roberval balance, in order to get 1 kilo skewers and 1/2 kilo skewers. The weight had to be very accurate. Then, he collected around the restaurant some branches (amazingly few wood), put them into the oven, light them and after a while, closed the oven with the metal lid in order to smother the fire. After that, he put the skewers, standing along the inside of the oven and closed it again. The lamb should cook very slowly, for several hours, at low temperature until the evening. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveDirections: Cross road between the road from the Jorf ferry (C 116) and the Medenine-Gabès road (P1)
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The is a great pub with a nice English feel to it, you can buy all the English beers/wines & spirits here if your missing them back home.
You can also get proper ham from here & nice cheddar cheese....... They have a full menu with allday breakfasts, steaks, burgers, baguettes, cobs, chips etc....
We had a cheese & ham sandwich with chips & a side salad along with a large glass of beer for only 18 Dinars for the two of us. Theme: Pub/BreweryPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: Sousse
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You can easily find this little restaurant, located in one of the main streets that leads to the center of Hammamet. Local people loves eating here, which is a good sign for the quality of the restaurant. In fact the food is very good and the prices too! Lovely briqs and ojjas, fresh sea food.
Briq with tuna; stuffed squid. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalComparison: least expensiveAddress: Avenue de la Republique
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Several small unnamed "gargotes" along the road. We choose one randomly and for 10 dinars we had for two a plate with harissa (mashed chili), another plate with olive oil and 1/2 kilo of mutton (tasty but not very tender). You had to dip a piece of bread in the olive oil, add some harissa and taste. Delicious if you are not afraid of hot dishes. No alcoholic beverage. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: El GuettarDirections: Road from Gabes to Tamerza
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Seemingly every street in Tunisia has a cafe, so you never have to walk far to get a caffeine fix. Most of them are men-only affairs, places where men gather to escape the house for a few hours, catch up on gossip over coffee or tea and maybe a chicha pipe, certainly a full packet of cigarettes. Some play cards, others play backgammon. If there's a television, it'll either be showing music channels or football, in which case it'll be packed. Some are very local, and you feel very much an outsider if you venture inside, but the ice soon breaks, especially if you try and speak some Arabic.
In some cafes, they have waiter service, in others you have to order at the bar. In many places, waiters may decide before speaking to you that you don't speak a language they know, and therefore render you invisible. People will be served around you almost immediately, but no amount of waving or shouting will get the waiter's attention. If that happens, make your presence felt at the bar, or go round the corner to the next place.
Foreign women may be welcome, especially if there is an outdoor section, although you hardly ever see a Tunisian woman in such a place. They stick to more upmarket cafes which serve juice and snacks as well as coffee and tea.
Qahwa = coffee
Qahwa arabiyya = Turkish coffee (sade = no sugar, otherwise they'll make it with sugar)
Ekspress = espresso, usually quite bitter
Allongee = an espresso with a bit more water
Capusan = not cappucino, but an espresso with frothy milk, served in a tea glass
Maa zahar = rose water, often added to coffee
Te ahmar = black tea, sometimes served with pinenuts. It is boiled up with sugar, so extremely sweet
Te akhdar = green tea with mint, again including sugar.
chicha = water pipe...you'll be given a plain tobacco one, unless you ask for...
chicha tufaah = pipe with apple tobacco
nar = charcoals Leave a Comment
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Here are some tips for Tunisian cuisine:
- Couscous is the national dish of Tunisia and can be prepared in a dozen different ways. Meat and vegetables are boiled in the lower half. The top half has holes in the bottom through which the steam rises to cook the grain which is put in this part. Cooked this way the grain acquires the flavour of whatever is below. The usual grain is semolina. To serve, the grain is piled in the middle of a dish, and the meat and vegetables put on top. A sauce can be then poured over before serving.
- Chorba -- soup with lots of pepper.
- Bricque/brik -- tiny parcels of minced lamb, beef, or vegetables and an egg wrapped in thin pastry and deep fried. Brik is very popular, but requires careful eating with your fingers if the egg is not to trickle down your chin.
- Harissa -- hot red pepper sauce used with almost any main dish.
- Makroud -- semolina cake stuffed with dates, cinnamon and grated orange peel.
- Mechouia -- an hors d'oeuvre of grilled sweet peppers, tomatoes and onions mixed with oil lemon, tuna fish and hard-boiled eggs.
- Mhalbya -- cake made with rice, nuts and geranium water.
- Samsa -- layers of thin pastry alternated with layers of ground roast almonds, and sesame seeds, baked in lemon and rosewater syrup. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalComparison: less expensive than average
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 Outside the Restaurant. by cazz38Leave a Comment Theme: LocalComparison: least expensiveAddress: Near the marina.
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Great food, great service and a great view over the marina. The staff are always happy to explain the local dishes and to give advice.
Try the sea food mezze. See it arrive on a neighbouring table after you have ordered something else and you will kick yourself. Leave a Comment
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 café de Nattes, interior by sachara
The caf'é floor has two levels. Down you can sit at little tables. We prefered to sit at the upper level on mats on the ground. While drinking our mint tea, we had all opportunity to look around at the colourful interior and the local people drinking tea, smoking the waterpipe or playing games.
The local mint tea. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterAddress: Sidi Bou SaidDirections: Going uphill from the Sid Bou Said TGM station, taking the cobble stone road with the street staals and souvenir shops, you will see the café just in front of you at the square.
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 Sidi Bou Said, Café de
Nattes by sachara
I visited the cafe twice. The first time with a lot of other tourists around, but in winter I found out there were a lot of local people in the café.
Drink a glass of green tea with mint. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterAddress: Sidi Bou SaidDirections: Going uphill from the Sid Bou Said TGM station, taking the cobble stone road with all the tourist stalls, you will see the café just in front of you at the square.
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