The best restaurants Ivory Coast

The Blue Box is one of the best tables in Grand-Bassam, at a reasonable price. The chic industrial-style decor highlights the large volumes and high ceilings of the colonial building. You can choose between Ivorian flavours (kédjénous, guinea fowl gnangnan, smoked rabbit soup, sautéed snails...) and French flavours (hunter rabbit, beef bourguignon, grilled meat...) and Cameroonian (chicken DG) and Caribbean specialities (Creole stuffed crab, acras de morue, scorched pork...). Elegant cuisine, all finesse and sensitivity.

Parisian friends, you will not be disoriented by this Art Deco setting with woodwork and dimmed lights that served as a set for the 2013 film Les Rayures du Zèbre with Benoît Poelvoorde. This restaurant is frequented by expatriates and the local bourgeoisie. The Italian trattoria offers a divine risotto with foie gras and oyster mushrooms and a homemade tiramisu to die for. On the French side, various seafood specialties and iodized platters are recommended, as are the meats (Chateaubriand steak, pork shank...). Warm welcome.

With more than twenty years of activity, this typical brewery is a classic in Abidjan, one of the most famous in the Plateau. In an Art Nouveau décor of wood and brass, the cuisine is French and Italian: pizzas cooked over a wood fire, well-processed meats, fish and seafood and excellent fresh homemade pasta. The must: the Chef's fresh pasta with lobsters, duck confit and Argentine beef! We like the old-fashioned atmosphere, Cyprien the sommelier and his pine-lined waistcoat, the weekend's singing tricks. Reservation recommended.

A well-known figure of the local nightlife, Georges Zouhinde sets the tone as soon as he enters his large open-air maquis set in a beautiful flowered garden (terrace on the street side and open room in the garden at the back). For sure here one goes green, but not on the plates, because the only watchword is: bombance. If the choice is relatively small compared to other maquis (a majority of kédjénous as well as excellent braised chicken and fish), the dishes are well worked out and served fairly quickly. A very nice classic.

The Bushman café is a cultural bar, an art gallery, a hotel, but also a good restaurant. On the roof terrace, the garden-restaurant Le Wêlé offers poetic dishes: Sahel chicken or Gnamakou (with ginger), gaou burger, captain/merou/thon brochettes... In addition to the classics of Ivorian cuisine: sauces, braised fish and chicken, choukouya of kid or guinea fowl... and even klaklos with red oil and camel! Cherry on the attiéké: affordable prices and a trendy setting combining art, good music and nature.

The All-Abidjan frequents the "beach" of this scrubland: faroteurs, champagnards, starlets, diplomats, humanitarians, old bushmen. And the beautiful people: Macky Sall, Pelé, Stromae.... However, there is no VIP area: they are all housed in the same place, with their feet in the sand. We come here to taste "the best kebabs of Abidjan", beef, grouper, snail, fish or chicken braised with attiéké, yam or allocos fries, in generous portions. The wait may be excessive, but Ambroise may offer you the koutoukou or the bandaged wood as a digestive.

This top-of-the-range maquis opened in 1988 has become a veritable institution in the Ivorian gastronomic landscape, prized by both locals and expatriates alike. A la carte: Ivorian, African and European specialities worked with finesse and know-how, and homemade "signature" dishes such as rice with olives, garba du Val and grouper kebabs. In addition to its beautiful consistency and the homage it pays to the richness and variety of African terroirs, the Maquis du Val is distinguished by its peaceful and green setting in the heart of Cocody.

A historic address, open since 1965, Di Sorrento is set in the beautiful, lush garden of a villa. It consists of a central straw hut-bar, tables nestled under private ventilated apatams, their privacy carefully preserved by green hedges. In addition to the courteous welcome and diligent service, the plates are generous and the products very fresh. Our recommendations: pizzas - of course! -carpaccio, seafood mix-grill, lasagne, osso buco. La dolce vita à l'ivoirienne.

Welcome to Francky's, a great rugby enthusiast, who runs one of the best tables in the city. On the menu: good small Gallic dishes (grilled andouillette with mustard sauce, duck breast with goat's cheese, steak tartare, cassoulet...), Ivorian specialities (soup, braised or choukouya mutton, agouti kédjénou, captain in sauce accompanied by excellent yam fries...) or pizzas. French wine list which honours the quality of the dishes. A very pleasant setting and atmosphere, lively on match nights.

Tuna & Co" in Abidjan, a famous fishmonger who opened his restaurant near Notre-Dame d'Afrique in Biétry, is no longer present, just to be able to salivate in front of all the local fish before tasting them on the spot. The carpaccios of fresh fish are divinely prepared, lobsters, prawns, tuna, sea bass, everything is prepared with lightness, a lot of greenery, following a healthy cuisine and creative recipe variations. Even the desserts are successful (special mention to the mango crème brûlée). A good table of the sea to discover.

La Maison de la crêpe is a 100% Breton corner. Here you can pour a bowl of cider over buckwheat pancakes such as the Saint-Brieuc (leek and scallop fondue) or the Lorientaise (goat's milk cheese, honey, walnuts and salad). For sweet crepes, there are original creations such as the Druide (pineapple, salted butter caramel, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream). The setting is pleasant: on the garden side, a wooded area where tables and lounges are spread around a pond, on the dining room side, Brittany is at the forefront, from the doilies to the napkins, through Celtic music.

the "old-timer" Rallye opened 5 years before independence. With its "Papa's Africa" side, its tiled floor, old photos of Abidjan on the wall, its phlegmatic fans, its shady terrace, it attracts Papys Broussards never short of an anecdote or an anisette, Ivorian businessmen, tourists, civil servants... The waiters, just like the menu, have not changed for years, and offer a family cuisine of simple dishes (carpaccios, salads, bolognese).... at low prices and of a constant quality.

A Japanese restaurant that defends itself, even if he does not play the fashion card like his colleague Le. In any case, you will eat entirely honourable sushi at relatively reasonable prices (possibility of getting away from 10 000 or 15 000 FCFA meal). Most of the Osaka: A very welcoming boss, a typical Japanese piece, a panasian card (salads, soups, nems, skipped noodles, beef specialities, shrimp, chicken, sheep, pork and seafood, wide choice of sushi, sashimis, makis, temakis, futomakis, ura makis, California makis…), and the Sunday buffet, which never always. For 10 000 FCFA, you will have the choice between a wide variety of Asian specialties, consumables and renewed consumables as needed. Counsel: for a maximum of choice (and a minimum of gourmets pressing around the buffet), better arrive at around 12 pm.

White. Blue. Chic and clean. Tropezian. Little brother of the old Chez Momo, the Bistro (yes, without "t") tropezian is a popular address of the insiders and friends of Modest, the friendly, fantasy and colorful patron of this institution. Brand of the house, a bisergic kitchen with Mediterranean accents honoring the classics of French breweries (headache, mimosas eggs, herring apples with oil, mouse or lamb, beef filet, interwoven, long-standing calf blankets, osso buco…) and offers a delicious carpaccio, and gourmet formulas of an unbeatable quality/price ratio for the Zone. An authentic address and no chicked to add to your good plans.
NB: In 2016, Le Bistro welcomed her little sister, La Tropézienne, a nightclub of the restaurant where you can even extend the evening if the atmosphere is at the meeting and if the heart tells you.

It is impossible to miss this massive architecture on the main road of Grand-Lahou, with its upstairs room and its bright green and yellow colours. This maquis, open at almost any time of the day, is one of the unmissable meeting points for Lahoussians of all ages. Local specialities such as fish or braised chicken and sauces are eaten there, and as is often the case in the maquis, one should not be in too much of a hurry and die of hunger on arrival. A nice stop to soak up the local atmosphere of the city.

The restaurant of the Iris Mont Korhogo hotel is one of the best for lunch or dinner in Korhogo. It has an air-conditioned room and a few tables outside under the corridor, below the pool where there are other tables and a pizza oven. On the menu, local specialties, two on the slate each day (leaf sauce, eggplant sauce, kedjénou) and meats or pasta. The braised chicken with ginger is particularly good, affordable and hearty. For breakfast, you can try the local millet porridge, which is both delicious and exotic.

The Zion Hotel is one of the best restaurants in Assinie, and to make matters worse, you can enjoy its two magnificent square green pools, if you have lunch there. In the kitchen, quality is paramount: fruits and vegetables from sustainable agriculture, grilled fish (sole, sea bass), crayfish, squid and lobsters caught locally, organic and farm chicken from Aboisso... The compositions are divine, from the delicate tuna tartar to the grouper brochettes. We have lunch with pleasure on the teak terrace overlooking the lagoon with a reggae sound background.