The best restaurants Benin

This very good quality maquis offers chawarmas, chicken, cassava couscous(attièkè), etc. So don't hesitate to settle down in its ventilated or air-conditioned room. If unfortunately the large terrace on the opposite side of the street is no longer available because of a prefectural decree, you can still enjoy a few tables set up right in front of the establishment or in its courtyard. It is in any case a very good option for small budgets in Ouidah, especially since the reception of Madame is always very pleasant.

Les Nouveaux Alizés? Here is an excellent option to enjoy every day of the week (and all day long continuously) with your feet in the sand! Under the big central straw hut or under the smaller ones around, you can choose between excellent pasta dishes, beautiful meat proposals and especially very well prepared fish and seafood. After the meal, so that the parents can have a quiet coffee, there are many games for children. Moreover, you are always perfectly welcomed by the smiling manager Clotilde

Le Lieu Unique is a spot not to be missed in the Beninese capital. Under the stars of Fidjrossè, you can choose between the pergola, the garden, the covered terrace or the open air terrace to enjoy a simple but quality cuisine. You can enjoy grilled meat or fish, pizzas cooked on a wood fire or, more original, buckwheat cakes for typical Breton recipes! In this setting, the atmosphere is always warm and festive, especially during the Friday and Saturday concerts.

After having moved from Cotonou, L'Endroit by Olabissi has set up its air-conditioned room, its terrace and its straw hut in downtown Porto-Novo. A rather chic address, run by the friendly Gilles, who offers us a nice menu of African dishes, especially the famous braised rabbit, and international ones (pasta, burgers, pizzas...). To add to all this, we also find some good wine labels. In short, you will have understood, we strongly recommend this address for a gourmet stopover in the administrative capital.

Delightfully located on the beach, the restaurant of the Auberge de Grand-Popo is a beautiful address to put your feet under the table. A dozen tables, covered with white tablecloths, invite you to enjoy a romantic setting. Guy Catherine, the owner of the place, invests in the training of his staff, and you can feel it. The menu is also full of good surprises. Well-stocked and inventive, it highlights many local products at reasonable prices, tender meat, meaty fish and shrimps cooked to perfection.

The Nonvignon center is an application center and aims to train restaurant professionals since 2020. Obviously, young inhabitants of Grand-Popo, surrounded by seasoned professionals, are at the helm of this friendly straw hut, literally placed on the beach. On the menu, African dishes cooked with local products, some European proposals (pizzas, pasta dishes...) and home-made pastries. Not to spoil anything, the setting is really nice and the prices rather soft.

This is the beach version of Code Bar, the famous night bar in Cotonou! Under the sun of Fidjrossè beach, you can enjoy beef, chicken or prawns brochettes, well-balanced burgers or braised fish. And even an excellent seafood platter (from 6 to 12 people, reservation 24 hours in advance). And you can digest on a deckchair, playing soccer, beach volleyball or pétanque, while the children enjoy the playground. The atmosphere is great, especially on Sundays from 5 pm for a DJ set at sunset

The restaurant of the hotel Chez Théo is an address not to be missed in Grand-Popo with its very pleasant terraces on stilts which transform your meal into a unique moment of relaxation. After the inevitable pineapple juice, you will be served the fish of the lake of the day, accompanied by rice, alokos, dakouin or you will choose a dish on a menu that mixes African and European influences. Before finishing with excellent homemade sorbets. The Sunday lunch buffet is also very popular and happily mixes Beninese and tourists

L'Imprévu is a surprising address, a small haven of peace in the heart of Ganhi, the heart of Cotonou. And an address where you can eat very well! The menu offers European and African bistronomic cuisine, with excellent fresh pasta dishes as a house specialty. To celebrate all this, there are nice bottles of wine and imported Belgian and French beers. There are also many events throughout the month: aperitifs, wine and beer tastings, exhibitions, craftsmen's and designers' markets, etc.

Away from the city center of Cotonou (about 20 minutes away) and from the beaten tracks of the tourists, Poulet Piqué is a local address as we like it! Here, you can sit in the large open-air room and enjoy spit-roasted chicken in the company of local thirty-somethings in a friendly atmosphere, whether it's in front of the big soccer games in the middle of the week or to the sound of bands that come to perform live on weekends, this is the guarantee of a good evening purely in Cotonou!

Restaurant with fish, prawns, lobster and vegetarian dishes.