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The floating restaurant in the marina at Port el Kantaoui is great,after walking through the sharks teeth make your way upstairs where you can sit and see some fantastic views of the marina.The food is really good and at a cheap price as well.You can't go on and just order a drink you have to purchase food as well.
This place is great but can get quite busy in the evenings,the atmosphere here is lovely and you dont have to wait to long for drinks or food.I would say this is the best pub in Port el Kantaoui.The bar staff are lovely and there is music in the evenings.
If ever you go to Tunisia, don't hesitate to taste local food "spicy and moreover; hot pepper"people in tunisia are known for their excessive intake of red hot pepper.... starter, Kouskous w/mutton chop, Kefteji...
One of the reasons to visit this place is the music provided by Moez and sometimes Rim, the friendliness of the restaurant owner and the staff, the food and the prices. The brik is excellent, but give the vegetable soup a miss, it was totally bland. Beware when ordering couscous here...its comes in a really large plate which is more than enough for two! Nice thing is that they tend to offer free mandarin oranges for dessert.The chicken hunter something was not bad
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.
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...
Les Amirs restaurant in Port el Kantaoui is well worth a visit. We ate here twice during our one week holiday and were very impressed on both occasions. I also liked the fact that the waiters didn't try to drag you in as you passed by, the place must have a good reputation or something! It seemed to be slightly more expensive than nearby restaurants but from what I could see the menu was a lot bigger and more varied. And anyway it's still much cheaper that what you would pay at home. On our first visit I had some kind of spicy sausage in sauce for starters and then cous cous royale for main course. The portions are very generous, I was full after the starter! The cous cous was delicious. The second time we ate here I had the fillet of fish which was lovely also, not so keen on the fries though. We had some local rose wine with our meals which was very good even if I can't remember the...
We decided towards the end of our stay to try the Hong Kong Chinese Restuarant in Hammamet. We got a taxi passing the hotel. This was a Friday night and there was very few taxis around for some reason. The restuarant was a little dark and empty when we arrived with no customers. The was no-one at the downstairs entrance and we suspected that it was closed. On climbing upstairs we found some one behind the bar and he said that they were in fact open. He appeared to be the owner (and not chinese). The lights were turned on and we found a pleasant chinese ornamented seating area, not that different from many Chinese restuarants around the world. The starters appeared to be only several types of soup so we opted to give that a miss and start with a main course. I ordered Chicken Curry ("Chicken of the Curry" on the menu), yeah I know a little boring but it was delicious with excellent Egg...
From my experiences in Tunisia nothing you get in a restaurant will be remotely as good as what the locals eat at home.Dining out is not a big thing in this country and so my best advice to you would be to meet some Tunisians and get invited home for couscous the way it really should taste. There are also a lot of dishes that you will never find in a restaurant but that depend on family traditions. Good luck
At the central cobbled square of Sidi Bou Said you can find the very known café des Nattes. Maybe it's a bit expensive to drink your cup of coffee or tea here, but the ambiance in Moorish style makes it worth to go there.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.
The Residence Tunis Tunis
1 Review and 133 Opinions The Residence is right on the beach near Carthage, with it's own stretch of beach offering various...
Marhaba Tour Khalef Sousse
8 Reviews and 236 Opinions We returned 17/7/2011 our kids aged both 8 years thought it was best kids club ever lots for them to...
Park Inn Ile de Jerba
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