The best restaurants Route Du Sud

Near the small market, in a popular district, the restaurant Le Pousse-Pousse is a popular address for travelers and residents alike. One sits in a décor of fitted rickshaws (children love it, older children a little less), and the cuisine is of high quality. Here, you will enjoy very good zebu brochettes, excellent home-made mashed potatoes, camarons with pastis, but also home-made foie gras... Note that you can also appreciate the musical atmosphere, as well as the "Cabaret" evenings once a month in season.

A must for Asian cuisine in Antsirabe. Installed in a former butcher's shop, a pretty little shack with orange walls, with a terrace, all nicely decorated, the Conterno proposes Asian specialities at low prices. Woks, strips of zebu with Teryaki sauce, egg rolls, stir-fried rice... everything is freshly made to order. The wait can sometimes seem a bit long, but the result on the plate is worth it. Don't leave without having tasted the homemade ice cream! Exquisite. The iced coffee is not bad either.

Excellent cuisine, the best of the coast is probably! Lobster is a first choice: cannot leave Manakara without having tasted it! There are also good Chinese dishes (min-sao, shrimp sweet sour sauce…) and spécialités Creole specialities (sanitary sausages, boucané ti-jacques, rooster massalé…). Sometimes wait a little longer, so drink while waiting for a coco punch or ti-punch, not expensive and delicious! Recommended.

The Zandina is a very popular address for travelers as well as tourism professionals, such as tour operators. In an elegant decor (there are many paintings for sale on the wall), this pizzeria offers a la carte dishes and suggestions depending on the arrival. Very good romazava of chicken and zebu with four breeds. Naina, the owner, trained as a chef in Italy: you can therefore rely on the pizzas and fresh pasta if you are homesick for Europe! The whole place leaves a good memory.

The hostel Chez Jenny has a mixed decoration, both rustic and modern, where the stone marries more contemporary colors. This hostel offers a very nice view on the small pond of the Green Park Hotel, located just next door. The cuisine is at the same time European, Malagasy and Creole (yes, it is possible!). You will eat very good pizzas cooked on wood fire, but also very good salted cakes. Don't miss the fresh fruit juices, each one as tasty as the other. A sure value!

The restaurant La Petite Bouffe is an address still unknown to tourists, and yet considered by the locals as one of the best value for money in Fianarantsoa. We particularly like its Cantonese rice and its misao. The place is also an ice cream parlour, a pastry shop and a pizzeria. The restaurant is part of the hotel of the same name, which offers a dozen impersonal but well-equipped and well-kept rooms. La Petite Bouffe has a second restaurant opposite Villa Sylvestre, in Ampasambaza.

The restaurant L'Ancre d'Or offers an original and welcome menu on the Route du Sud, which makes it a warm and popular address for residents as well as for tourists passing through Fianarantsoa. One will taste here a shank soup of the great days, chicken with vanilla, foie gras or even a fondue bourguignonne of zebu, among other dishes. The proposed cooking is very correct. In the evening, we tease poker between friends. Didier, particularly jovial, will perhaps propose you paragliding baptisms. Beautiful moment in perspective.

The reputation of L'Insolite is well established. We go there for its cuisine, but also for the atmosphere. You always have a good time. The menu changes regularly and all the continents are represented:bò bún, laab kai, gyozas, sweet potato gnocchi with Reblochon sauce, chicken karma, fajitas, burgers, goulash, pan-fried foie gras, zebu fondue, raclettes, truffade auvergnate, just to name a few dishes. And for those who don't want to leave empty-handed, on the other side of the garden, Sam has opened a store selling local products.

Excellent address, as close as generous in the quality of its dishes (homemade soups and pastries, including the famous brownie and its vanilla ice cream). We love the few tables on the terrace, on the back. Dinner on order. An ideal stopover during the visit of the old town.

A rather neat decor, tables set on a shaded terrace, or by the fire for the coolest days. The service is attentive and the dishes, rather well presented, are correct for the price. There are divergent opinions on quality, which seems to be very uneven, but we enjoyed our last meal. The chef's vanilla puree is worth a visit.

Chez Domm, which recently became Chez Deckie, is a pleasant neighborhood restaurant with its colorful tables, which attracts residents and tourists alike at cocktail hour. The atmosphere is friendly and the food quite good: zebu with Saint-Marcellin, hamburgers, Chinese noodles, sandwiches, pasta... You can meet many serious guides and get information, especially from Deckie, because it is now the "HQ" of the Association of Guides of Fianar. An excellent starting point to discover the region (and also good arranged rums!).

A stopover appreciated by tourists and residents alike, in this simple two-story building. Apart from the menus and dishes, one can buy foie gras in trays to take away, in different flavors (plain, grape, green pepper, pink berry or vanilla), for 35 000 Ar. Also in 250 g glass jars at 65 000 Ar, 500 g at 90 000 Ar, and foie gras sandwiches at 15 000 Ar. Smart advice: the starter with tasting of the 5 flavors is largely sufficient for one meal (or even two). The annex, 2 km from Behenjy, offers exactly the same tasting formulas.

A very good table, in a chosen, elegant and refined setting, even romantic. Very pleasant.

Restaurant/bar with terrace on the street, serving good food and tapas. The Patio also offers some simple but well-kept rooms with private bathrooms and hot water. A warm welcome from Pierre-Jean and his team. Free swimming pool at the Sorafa for guests of the hotel "Le Patio" and wifi.

Located on the Route du Sud, eight kilometers south of Ambatolampy, the small but pleasant restaurant L'Iskurna is run by Manuel. He is a Spaniard who speaks with great ease both French and Malagasy! Manuel has set up several tables outside, in the shade which is much appreciated in summer, in a green setting. He serves pizzas and paellas, as well as Malagasy and more classical dishes. The restaurant L'Iskurna is a friendly and recommendable stop, a place appreciated by Malagasy as well as by travelers passing through.

Dishes with Chinese flavors not expensive at all, and also bichiques, types of glass eels (these are not eels, but species of small fish, like alvins in fact), that women are looking in the ocean in the little morning, from water up to the waist, to bring four or five kilos.

Come and enjoy a refined cuisine in the historic hotel of the city. The gastronomic cuisine of the day is extra fresh because it is prepared with the products of the adjacent garden... which we warmly recommend to visit (tropical garden on the edge of the river which invites you to disconnect completely). We recommend eating on the terrace to the sound of birds and frogs. Cherry on the cake: you can also enjoy the natural pools of the hotel (20 000 Ar).

Fara, a self-taught chef, puts his passion to work to concoct Malagasy, Asian and European recipes that delight the taste buds and make the restaurant of the Trianon hotel, "Chez Dom", a success. Balanced flavors, carefully chosen products, perfect cooking, nothing is left to chance and everything is there to make your plate a feast. There is also a good choice of wines. One of the best tables of Antsirabe according to our teams, in the charming and welcoming setting of the hotel Le Trianon.

One of the last born in Antsirabe (2018), XV Be is the result of a project imagined by friends, of mixed origins (France, Spain, Madagascar) and rugby fans: a tapas bar, well animated on match days of course! You can come there to have a drink with friends, enjoy the friendly and festive atmosphere at the end of the week, or taste seafood specialties (parilladas, paellas, among others), in a pretty barrack with turquoise blue walls. An address to discover.

Zebu skewers (tested and approved), zebu steak, rib, rib, rib steak, fillet.... Everything you want is in the zebu! We settle indoors or on the terrace and take the time to quench our thirst while waiting for our meal. It is not very refined, but the meat is generally tender and good. Malagasy specialities are also on the menu.