The best restaurants Mahé

We are back to the stone age at Maria's! The hot volcanic stone on which the food is cooked is enthroned in the middle of the wooden tables, and here it is the customer who cooks. Ah! these big shrimps to be grilled, or rather to be seized so much they deserve to be savoured nature, accompanied by some pieces of meat and fish in a delicious mix of meat, fish & prawns filets! All washed down with white wine and enjoyed in one of the most unique settings of the archipelago. Because we are there in the fief of Antonio Filippin. An address not to be missed!

This is a marvellous spot: here you can eat with your feet in the sand, overlooking the dazzling Anse Royale, salads made with vegetables from the owners' garden, homemade bread and pasta, good fish or pizzas concocted by the talented chef. And everything can be taken away if you're self-catering. After your meal, you can also take advantage of the deckchairs provided free of charge on the beach, showers and lockers (a good idea when waiting for your evening flight after checking out at a local hotel). Friday evenings feature live music.

This small beach restaurant offers refreshments and simple dishes: pizzas, garlic shrimps, fish, etc. It also serves very good fresh fruit juices (between 60 SR and 100 SR). The place is ideal for lunch before lounging on the beautiful beach it overlooks. There is even a shower available to rinse off after a good sun and sea bath... Ideal also to prolong the pleasure until the last lights of the day with a good cocktail, on the beautiful terrace or the feet in the sand.

To get off the beaten track, leave the road between Anse Takamaka and Quatre-Bornes, and head deep into Mahé. Three minutes' drive later, you'll have a beautiful view of the jungle. This is Le Réduit, Herbert and Ravinia Gerry having named their restaurant after the nearby mountain. Here, you'll find well-crafted Creole dishes such as ginger-marinated fish, squid curry with coconut milk and bat, roasted or curried. Best ordered in advance (1h cooking time). On Sundays, the menu is significantly reduced.

Feet in the sand and sitting on a bench, this is a perfect spot to have lunch between two sea baths or to eat cheaply at nightfall! To the north of the bay, the pizzeria of the smiling Madame Michel, open to the four winds and recently rebuilt, can calm a little hunger, even in swimsuits. Pizzas and pasta are of course on the menu and, if it's not worth Italy, the setting is really nice... The place is very often full, so it's better to be a little patient when you want to order.

This Anse à la Mouche restaurant deserves a tasty break. While the menu revisits all the Creole and international classics, it also offers a touch of originality with very good Indian specialties, such as naans, prepared over a wood fire (in which some pizzas are also prepared). To make matters worse, the large open-plan dining room, on the other side of the small road and facing the ocean, is very pleasant and provides a welcome break between two beach sessions. An address that keeps on convincing.

A little gourmet straw hut with its feet in the sand is a must! Even if the welcome is sometimes a little gruff, the place is pleasant, at one end of the charming Anse Soleil, overlooking the islet Chauve-Souris. Everything you need to take it easy. On the menu, dishes range from octopus curry and marlin salad to peanut chicken. It's not easy to find a seat at lunchtime, especially at weekends, as the site is so charming.

If the Bravo! was the first born of the Eden Island restaurants, the establishment also offers the latest novelty of the artificial island: its sushi bar. In a pleasant air-conditioned room with a neat decoration, around a table or on a high stool facing the bar, you can choose between the great Japanese classics. It is perhaps not unforgettable culinary, but the framework is sympathetic and that changes a little. Afterwards, there is always time to go and drink a cocktail or a Seybrew on the terrace facing the marina and the yachts.

This new address in the small capital is the perfect place for breakfast or a quick, quality mid-day meal. Here, locals and tourists mingle and enjoy the dozen or so tables set up in the small air-conditioned room or on the terrace next to the pretty Hindu temple. The menu includes sandwiches, paninis, wraps, salads, pasta dishes and fish & chips. And don't forget the smoothies for a vitamin-packed break while exploring Victoria.

In the face of the market, at the bottom of the Deevas Complex, this take-away displays some honest dishes, pwason soloists in rougaille sosis and de pwason in spicy chicken, passing through Kari goat, tuna steak and lentils to salted meat.

You can sit out on this terrace on the first floor of the covered market, where you can enjoy a variety of highly recommended dishes: from simple grilled fish to octopus or niçoise salads, from a chicken curry club sandwich to an all-you-can-eat Creole buffet or a seafood platter. From 8 am, a continental breakfast is served and until 3.30 pm, freshly squeezed fruit juices, especially mango or passion fruit juices. All the products obviously come from the market. Above all, you can enjoy the superb view of its cheerful bazaar atmosphere. Authentic!

Since the end of the 1990's, there have been a number of very popular restaurants, such as the Sams Pizzeria with its beautiful wooden décor. It's a bit like a "Hard Rock Café" in the Seychellois style. Some two thousand pizzas are baked there every week, in seventeen versions, to be eaten on the spot or to take away, the most local being the Pacific with smoked marlin, capers and onions. In addition to pasta, salads and grilled meats are also offered, to be sprinkled with a pleasant South African shiraz.

It is essential to sit down in the delicate decor of this beautiful wooden Creole building, where some enlargements of atmosphere dating from the beginning of the th century are attached. The service is provided from noon to 21 h, around a beautiful range of Seychelles dishes, some of which are only available here, such as brèdes broth. We can also choose on the map closed eyes, so Chief France, values the country's products, and the bourgeois net is served in a banana sheet. From octopus from octopus to old in salted fish of the pot and crab crab in sausage rougaille and grandfather boudin, or even more rare, civet of bat, this is "tipik" that we get to the stomach, and until the coconut pie, and mango salad. In short, the stopover is required, if only for a pressed lemon or a milk shake, in this house managed by the National Heritage Foundation. A pot that we regret is now closed on Sunday. Which, a few years ago, gave rise to boukan full of rejoicing. ?? A barbecue to the Seychelles drawing its name from the one used to give a bamboo wand in which the fish were smoked. Now synonymous with party, this boukan has taken on a sound dimension: on that day, "tapaz" of rigour… until midnight di swar, i. e. until more thirst. For in Seychelles too, Sunday and Monday are sometimes de kas (bois).

Here it is, the most famous of Seychelles' Indian restaurants! In a typically decorated setting with a pleasant terrace facing the marina and the island of Mahé, Les Maharajas serves traditional North Indian specialities: cucumber, coriander and cumin salad, tandoori chicken, pakoras or biryanis, accompanied by a good choice of naans, make up a well-stocked menu of some fifty dishes! A good idea for a change from Creole specialties..

Here is a table that you won't forget! In a dreamy atmosphere facing the sublime Anse aux Poules Bleues and in the refined setting of the Mango House, this Japanese table wonderfully combines the ultra-fresh catch of the day and the culinary art of the Land of the Rising Sun. The high quality menu (but the bill is high) also offers extremely well prepared raw fish or fish cooked on a robatayaki grill. A true gastronomic experience that is off the beaten track

Why not spend the day on Cerf with the Lazy Day Package (round-trip transfers, lunch at the resort restaurant and hotel facilities available for SR 1,150)? From Seychelles-style fish of the day to grilled shrimps, you're in for a treat. In the evening, you can also let yourself be carried away by its soft, hushed atmosphere. Taking full advantage of the ocean and surrounding land, its cuisine is nourished by their vegetables: from old-fashioned cinnamon sauce, buttered pumpkin and patole nougat, to salt pork with sea bream, the exotic melts in your mouth.

The News is a ventilated café with a rather modern decoration located on the first floor of Trinity House. Here, you come especially for its copious breakfasts, even if you can always nibble some tapas, sandwiches (paninis, wraps, tramezzini...) or good salads, especially Creole and Thai. The most ? The breathtaking view of Albert Sreet's animation, just in front of the beautiful colonial house of Jivan Imports. In the heart of the capital's atmosphere, this is the perfect address for a short break after strolling through the market

Right next door to the Bliss Hotel, the Rockpool is first and foremost a superb terrace overlooking the ocean and the promise of a magnificent view as you sit down to dinner or watch the sunset. This stopover can take the form of a cocktail or a meal, with a simple but effective menu. Fresh fish, pasta, burgers and fishburgers are all on offer, making for a pleasant stopover in an enchanting setting while discovering the north of Mahé.

This pretty wooden house, which opened its kitchen in 2021, is the new table of Beau Vallon. Since then, it has been delighting its visitors, who mostly sit on its small covered terrace, with a rather original menu. Indeed, one can choose between excellent pasta dishes, with products directly imported from the Italian Botte, and Japanese specialties of very good quality. It must be said that with freshly caught fish (including an excellent raw tuna) directly from the Indian Ocean, the quality products are there! We like it a lot.

An exotic table, where the exoticism does not stop at the decor (very kitsch), since this Mahek (aroma) makes no concessions to Seychellois cuisine. In the plate, indeed, a real cuisine from there. A la carte: lentils cooked in a tandoori oven, small corn with tomatoes and spices, saffron cheese and spicy yoghurt, job Goa sauce, sautéed lamb with herbs and spices, chicken marinated in yoghurt and the traditional Indian rice pudding.

Located at the end of the pontoon, Tamassa specializes in seafood and fish of the day. While there are a few international specialties on the menu (notably good wood-fired pizzas), you'll also be tempted by an octopus curry or a large grilled parrot with baby vegetables. Both foreign and Seychellois clientele flock to Tamassa on Fridays to enjoy a good karaoke session, where budding singers set the mood with a (good) cocktail in hand (195 SR).

In a romantic atmosphere by the splendid 700 ^m2 Savoy swimming pool, Pescado offers a beautiful menu of fish and seafood (we loved the red mullet ceviche) and some refined meat dishes. With jazzy music in the background and a pretty wine and digestive cellar, here is the promise of a good time together.

La Grande Maison is the new top table of Mahé. Opened in 2016, the establishment found refuge in a magnificent colonial home dating back to 1792 and is classified as Seychelles Heritage. Restored with noble materials and in the spirit of the day, it also allows you to live a beautiful culinary experience. The Belgian chef Christelle Verheyden, who runs a local and regal team with a card that changes almost every day. Here everything is made home, including bread, and typical dishes are superbly revisited. One can only advise the heart of fresh palm with truffle and cari leaf, before regaling Creole Creole served in a vase. Unless it is tempted by one of the three fish of the day, the selection of seafood or pig-grown pork on sugar cane. A whole program! Because in every plate, it's minimum 8 ingredients… In short, a table to be tested, especially on Wednesday and Saturday, when a local group occurs live.