Restaurants cuisine du monde 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.

A well-hidden piece of the world that deserves itself. Vast wooded enclosure bordered by water and open to the gentle lagoon winds, La Mangrove scatters chairs and tables on a sandy ground planted with coconut trees, and offers the traditional panoply of Ivorian specialties from land and sea: chicken, guinea fowl, bush meat, fish, snail, soups, braised, rice, alloco, chips, yams ... and even yassa. A place that is worth the detour if only for its setting, happy to escape the city frenzy. Disorienting and regenerating. Playground for children. Wifi.

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.

L'art de vivre lives up to its name: this meeting place for epicureans promises an excellent moment at the table. We like the welcome of the owners, the colorful decor and especially the plate. On the menu, salads, kedjénous, rabbit, braised chicken carp and sole... Dishes in sauce like a chicken sautéed in the Provençal style, a distinguished sea bass steak with ginger and lemon sauce, or the chef's specialty, the grouper steak with citrus fruits. Softly cooked lamb shoulder or exquisitely tender beef cheeks are also good options. Brochette party every Thursday.

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.

Renowned for its gourmet refinement, this local version of a fashionable Buddha-bar lounge is spread over two floors: on the ground floor, the tableware shop and the chiquissime "Lounge by Kaiten", all in red, black and gold clothing, and upstairs, the restaurant with its wine cellar and sushi bar in open kitchen mode. We like: the beautiful variety of the menu, the range of fish on offer, the obvious freshness of the products, the creativity and sophistication of the dishes. A top-of-the-range place to try in the evening.

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.

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 Palm Rock Beach Hotel is a favourite meeting place for locals who come here to relax after work, enjoy a good (cabbage) crust with friends, or have a lighter snack while sipping a good beer during lively billiard games. Here you can enjoy German beers (the only place where you can drink Paulaner) and delicious sauerkraut whose ingredients are directly imported from Germany; the musical program is varied and of excellent quality.

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.

Hotel Les Jardins d'Ivoire has a fantastic restaurant, simply the best in San Pedro and beyond, one of the finest restaurants in the Ivory Coast. Fresh seasonal produce and quality ingredients, innovative and subtle flavours, classics of Italian gastronomy and original and creative proposals with local ingredients... in short: a must. Depending on your tastes and preferences, don't hesitate to ask Stefano, the owner, for advice and guidance. The setting is idyllic by the sea.

You are at the right address to devour beautiful plates of local specialties on the lagoon side, especially fresh fish. The setting is enchanting - with a nice zouglou soundtrack in the evening - especially the pretty swimming pool of the resort surrounded by vegetation, open to the customers of the restaurant. The dishes in sauce are worked, we liked the hyper-professional service of the waiters, the dishes of the day on the slate and the original accompaniments like the sweet potato gratin, the generosity of the dishes and its outside terrace facing the swimming pool.