I’m a sucker for weird meats, so when the chance to try some camel at a fancy local restaurant came up in Ghardaia I was on it like shit on a stick. This led to our slightly clueless guide taking us to Tacha Restaurant, located at the edge of the Tafilalt “ecological village”. Which I’ll…
Ghardaia is a pretty damned cool place, but the highlight of a trip here, for The Street Food Guy at least, is the Souk El-Gharbia. This colossus of a place is not just some tourist hell hole, but a full-on eating, sleeping, living market. And that does not just mean life, but also great street…
Fattoush restaurant is located in the Old Town of Tripoli and is one of the city’s established dining venues. It has been in operation for over a decade and is family-owned. The current owners manage both the kitchen and front-of-house operations. The restaurant serves Libyan cuisine alongside regional dishes from neighboring countries such as Tunisia,…
When you have not been to a city it is hard to imagine what its nightlife is like, and this is what happened to me in Algiers. What I did know though was that it had to be better than Tripoli. For there was drink, at least in places like Hotel Suisse! To be fair…
With a lack of an actual nightlife eating basically becomes the thing to do in Libya. Thankfully or perhaps because of this they do have great restaurants, with Al Walima Restaurant in Tripoli being a case in point here. Known as “the seafood restaurant” the destination has seafood delivered daily which can be perused and…
Compared to much of North Africa Algiers is a pretty decent food city. And this is not really surprising when you factor in that Algerian cuisine is pretty decent, and that they have the whole French influence thing going on. This makes “Algerian Restaurants” really unique in how eclectic their servings are, with the centrally…
