At the second floor is a nice and peaceful restaurant, which serves sandwiches, pizzas and also a full menu. It's a popular place, so it can be crowded at luchtime.
I had a good pizza and a delicious milkshake for 2.500 CFA
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 | La Gerbe d'Or: Cotonou, favourite bakery     |  | |
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 |  on April 8, 2004 |
La Gerbe d'Or is a good place for bread, croissants and pastries. You can also buy yoghurt and milkshakes. At the second floor is a nice and peaceful restaurant, which serves sandwiches, pizzas and also a full menu. It's a popular place, so it can be crowded at luchtime. I had a good pizza and a delicious milkshake for 2.500 CFA |
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| Well-chic & a lot of other names: Ouidah, open-air restaurant  | | |
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| on April 6, 2004 |
Just opposite the entrance of the Voodoo Museum is a nice open air restaurant. Here you can sit outdoors in the shade and feel some breeze, having your cool drink and African meal. I had a delicous and cheap local meal of chicken with couscous. Joyce, a small kid, was sitting at my side, holding my arm. |
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| If you really want to push... | | |
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 |  on September 7, 2002 |
If you really want to push your luck eat from one of the many street vendors along any road or pathway. I was able to bring some Miltary, Meals Ready to Eat. A Lifesaver for me. You see lots of fried fish. I was not brave enough to try the vendors. |
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| Lil stands all over: Local food | | |
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 |  on October 23, 2005 |
Heres where the locals come for lunch, and you dont get much cheaper than this - for a few hundred CFA youll get a filling meal. The restaurants consist of a few pots filled with delicious stuff, usually meat and/or fish stews, and a variety of staples such as rice, pounded ngam, pasta, and a few benches with tables. If you, like me, are a vegetarian and lucky they also have a green veggie sauce called someting like Krang-krang (prounounced with your nose) - this stuff is slimier than ghost busters.
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| Indiana: Indian Delight in Africa | | |
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 |  on January 9, 2007 |
Indiana is in Cocotiers. This is a purely indian restaurant. The food is good and is any Indian's favourite in benin. The interiors are not plush, but then it is cosy. It is open for lunch and dinner and is closed on mondays.
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| Le Stables du Roses: Only restaurant at the border | | |
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| on January 15, 2007 |
When we were travelling to Niger by road, we had to spent the night at the Malanville border. The border is secluded, with not much traffic and Malanville is a small town. We tried to figure out whether we can find any hotel to stay and that is when for the first time we landed up in Stables du Roses. It is run by a european couple, there are rooms available for one to stay and the restaurant is also good. We made it a point to stop here on every trip of ours. |
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| Little local restaurants: Local breakfast | | |
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| on October 23, 2005 |
Youll find these little places all over Benin, serving omelets, bread, coffe etc. Perfect for breakfast!
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| Foufou place near UNDP: Mmmm... foufou | | |
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| on October 23, 2005 |
I still dont quite get it - boiled ngam (yams in english i guess) are fantastic, yet they work superhard at pounding them with huge sticks to make a sticky porridge type dish, wich is, admittely, really good too. Try to get near a foufou place when theyre in action, the rythmic sound made when a few people are a-pounding makes your hip shake.
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| Lots of Fresh Food | | |
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 |  on May 4, 2008 |
The food in Benin is excellent. I was very surprised at the quality of the food in the hotels and restaurants and the quantity of fresh food available everywhere I travelled. The climate in the South, where my trip was mostly based, allows an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetable of all types to be grown – Mangos, Pineapples, Bananas, Carrots, Rice, Potatos, Beetroot, Cabbage………the list is endless. The French have left a legacy of delicious freshly baked bread. The many lakes, rivers and the coast means a plentiful supply of fresh fish, and the variety of fresh meat is amazing – I had pork, pigeon, lamb, chicken, beef. You can also get great pizzas and pasta dishes and even curry! Mineral water and cola are widely available as well as fresh fruit juices. There is a good choice of imported and local beer. The one I preferred was the local Beninoise. The local gin is called Sodabe and is made from palm trees and Cassava. It costs 1200 CFA, less than 2€, and is said to be very strong - I didn't try it. All the places I ate had a very high standard of cooking. Individual restaurant tips will be added to the pages of the places I visited soon. This is one holiday where I did not lose weight! |
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| Dont remember: Expat hangout no 1, Cotonou | | |
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| on October 23, 2005 |
This is one of the whitest places in Benin, but the pizzas (CFA 4-5000!) arent bad, and neither is the beer. No west african food whatsoever tho.
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