The best restaurants Djerba & Area

Every Friday night, folkloric evening: belly dancers, fire spatter, fakir, horse volt… Complete meals, brik, couscous, mint tea and pastries. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

The restaurant la Lagune is a small restaurant where you can eat excellent fish with your feet in the water since the tables are placed on the beach. Service with a smile. A good little address to enjoy the beach as well. In summer, the place is crowded and the wait can be long! The restaurant is located on the sea arm near the former Club Med (now closed). The beach is pleasant: fine sand and transparent water. What to spend a good time both gourmet and outdoor. We recommend it!

The restaurant Sidi Ali is a small beach restaurant which is worth the detour: the setting is superb, the plates are very copious for a price which remains light, and the reception of Adel, the owner of the places, is remarkable... We appreciate the quietness of the place and the nature in its raw state, whether it is with the decoration or in the plate with the catch of the day. Here is an address which will change from the restaurants of the hotels-clubs of the Tourist Zone!

Djerbian restaurant highly appreciated by the local population. Good quality/price ratio. You will certainly see Mr. Lazhar or members of his family sweating behind his stoves to offer you creative dishes according to the market products. In addition to briks and couscous, come and taste the Chorba hout, meloukhia, kamounia, ras mosli, markat jilbanaand other medfouna. It is very good and just spicy enough. With walls full of pottery, old keys and other peasant objects, the decor is both traditional and original. We recommend it!

The restaurant "Le Petit Marin" is in fact a simple wooden hut. You will find here a few tables placed on the sand on the beautiful beach of Sidi Jmour, next to the mythical mosque of the same name. The place, in the heart of the wild coast, is simply dreaming... Beyond the sumptuous setting, we eat there rather well: fish and seafood will be honored here... A recent and still relatively confidential address. The young people working in the restaurant are very attentive and caring. We recommend it!

Don't be mistaken by the relatively basic look of this roadside restaurant. The setting is basic, but here we're interested in what's on the plate! The traditional cuisine of this address revolves around local fishing. Fish of the day and seafood. The waiter will prefer to recite you the suggestions of the day rather than bring you the menu. We particularly like the shrimps, perfectly spiced with homemade spices prepared by the chef himself. Excellent value for money: we recommend...

Welcome to Chokri aka Chouchou, a small restaurant very well known among locals and residents here, fast service. A simple and efficient cuisine, noise, warmth, and a lively atmosphere, beyond the tourist restaurants too smooth! The inevitable bricks, ojjas, but also squids or shrimps sautéed with garlic, fresh grilled fish of the day, grilled meats, etc. Try the clams dish (depending on availability), which is excellent, hearty and inexpensive. The lamb with gargoulette and the Djerbian couscous can be ordered 24 hours in advance

A good address that this small family Italian restaurant where we eat good specialities of the boot prepared by Ana, an adorable Calabrian mamma married to a Tunisian. The restaurant doesn't look like much from the outside but you come here above all for what you find in the plate, here the products are fresh and of quality (seafood, fish, crab...)! We also like very much the room with colored walls where are suspended beautiful photos of the south of Italy. We recommend you the fish soup and the homemade tiramisù!

Since 1971, one of the first restaurants still open in Djerba, an institution! Cuisine and service always at the same (very good) level. A passionate Djerbian, the owner Sélim is president of the federation of restaurant owners in Djerba and owns a travel agency. On the menu, the products of the sea in all their forms: fishing of the day, couscous with fish, shrimps, octopus, fish with coarse salt or other lobsters. Small terrace at noon, large terrace on a boat in the evening. Animations every Thursday evening in summer: Tunisian dinner-show.

Aïcha, which you can reach by phone, can prepare a typical Gabes couscous on order. Otherwise, go on its small terrace on the road to eat a sheep cooker sold by weight. It also prepares it under the earth. A new, simple and generous address.

Relatively local, this is the classic rendez-vous for the kamounia, meat beans, grilled lamb ribs and couscous. A gentle addition in a restored atmosphere.

Opened in May 2016 in the golf course, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful addresses of the moment in Djerba. With its large glass windows and clean lines, the place is recommended to drink a coffee during the day before or after having trampled the green, to enjoy a semi-gastronomic dinner at a time when the last rays fall on the verdant slopes, to sip a cocktail accurately dosed in the evening, and to break up all night in a chic and fashionable atmosphere. Chef Slim Khanchouch, a German star, has returned to his native lands and offers a varied map combining djerbian flavors and European accents, like the mead and burrata salad. A success!

Ze Mess is a top concept in terms of both atmosphere and food! We discovered Ze Mess in its first summer, and everything let us think that it would be a success in the months and years to come. The idea: a Mediterranean and Tunisian cuisine revisited in the form of tapas, a menu renewed almost daily, a young and dynamic team, and a jazzy musical background - when not attending a live concert (every ten days or so). To be discovered, whether you stay at the adjoining Dar Ali or not.

The Fatroucha restaurant is a very good 2-fork restaurant in the Tourist Zone. You will find here fish and good specialties around seafood (lobsters, crabs, gambas, etc.). The terrace is more pleasant than the room (a bit dark) and the service is as pleasant, attentive and professional. It remains a little expensive that said, but one will remember that one pays here the site in this district of the island of Djerba.

Tasting briks in Houmt Souk is an experience in itself: it is an opportunity to taste the very good Judeo-Tunisian kosher cuisine! This experience illustrates the excellent inter-religious living together that prevails on the whole island of Djerba, where Jews and Muslims have been getting along for generations. The briks here are excellent, it's an address that everyone loves! If you can't find this address, ask the Djerbians where you can eat good briks, everyone has his favorite address...

Adel welcomes you with a smile to the restaurant "Bach Hamba" in a pleasant setting. Two rooms, downstairs and upstairs, we prefer the upper one. Here, the cuisine is prepared over a wood fire. Special mention for the brick with a perfect cooking and for the Djerbian couscous with grouper, a real favorite. The restaurant also proposes various dishes from all over the world (if you want to change from the Tunisian classics). A brand new address that we recommend!

In this tiny gargote of a few square meters, perfectly clean and tiled, Djerbians come with their families or friends to have a break between two shopping. Two sandwiches are offered here: tuna or sardine based. Fresh products are prepared in front of you behind a large window. Chez Saad is a simple address, good and undoubtedly the most accessible to your purse in all Houmt Souk. The perfect place for a little gourmet stop between two visits!

This storefront does not look like much: don't let yourself be impressed, this is where you can eat the best pasta in Djerba (and maybe even in Tunisia!). The famous macaroni of Naoued accompanied by meat and a sauce that only he has the secret are a delight. Don't hesitate to stop here, in the heart of downtown, when you visit or cross Midoun, probably several times, during your discovery of the island of Djerba!