The best restaurants Togo

A few tapas and burgers to accompany the aperitif.

It is the meeting place for artists and art lovers. Decorated by Togolese painters, Le Régent looks like a Bedouin tent. The ventilated room, with its beautiful wooden furniture, is very pleasant to sit down for lunch or dinner. You can enjoy good grilled meat and braised fish. The restaurant plays excellent country and jazz music. Occasionally, live music is played in a friendly atmosphere. Careful and efficient service. A place we warmly recommend.

Chinese specialities, many of them in the capital.

An address to be recommended especially for its setting at the edge of the fitted out beach, with swimming pool and deckchairs. This restaurant of the Cocobeach hotel is mainly specialized in fish and shellfish. However, there are some meats, including a delicious chicken in cider. The menu changes every week and offers refined dishes concocted from fresh products. The establishment is well frequented on weekends, especially on Sundays by French and Lebanese expatriates from Lomé who come to have a good time. Pleasant staff.

Very nice terrace on the roof where you can eat in the evening.

The hotel restaurant offers classic cuisine.

Since the hotel-restaurant La Douceur underwent a facelift in 2016, the restaurant has moved upmarket at decent prices, rapidly becoming the best address in town. A pleasant dining room with highly professional service, which doesn't take long, and consistently high quality cuisine. Pizzas, chicken with peanut sauce, mixed salads or meats of all kinds, the chef guarantees every dish on his menu, which he renews regularly. A must for hotel guests and Kara locals alike. One of the best value for money restaurants in the area.

It's a small street cooker.

A very good small maquis housed in a family house, which offers basic Togolese cuisine: corn paste, fufu, ablo, rice sauce accompanied by goat meat, beef, or fish... It is very popular with local customers for its generous portions and low prices. Classic drinks such as sweets and fresh fruit juices (orange, pineapple, ginger, tamarind) pressed on demand are consumed on the spot. A bell, made of wrought iron, is used to call the waitresses, who come to take orders without delay.

European and Togolese cuisine in a hotel school restaurant, as Macumba trains young apprentices for their future job as restaurateur. Fish, poultry and meat are cooked on the fire. We won't miss their famous fufu or their excellent fish and vegetable soup. The setting is pleasantly calm. A very good address for those who appreciate a generous cuisine. The service is sometimes nonchalant, but we will not hold it against you. Attached to the ABCN garage, this address is very well known and appreciated by the Togolese.

Fanny's restaurant is one of the very good addresses of Kpalimé. There are excellent French cuisine. The antelope civet is one of the specialties of the house. Mrs Fanny, a Togolese woman who lived for a long time in France, is at the helm of her kitchen and room, with a friendly team.

Marie-Claire welcomes you with a smile in her family restaurant, located on the shore of Lake Togo. With your feet in the sand or in the water under a straw hut, you will be able to savor a local cuisine, prepared with fresh products from the market. The setting is exceptional, facing Togoville, half an hour away by pirogue. The place is very popular with the locals, who gather there in large numbers on weekends. The atmosphere can quickly become very lively when the artists present for the occasion improvise some African sounds, to the rhythm of the drums.

In a chic and elegant decoration, the restaurant suggests grilled meats, fish, pizzas, tapas with a diversified choice of desserts, including creme brulee and ice cream. The dishes are tasty and the portions are generous, and the prices are quite reasonable. In addition, the place offers a pleasant terrace overlooking the main boulevard of January 13 as well as comfortable lounges to rest. We particularly appreciate this pleasant setting for lunch. The service is neat, with a personnel attentive to the customers.

The hotel boasts the most authentic Indian bar in Lomé. It welcomes its guests in the air-conditioned room and terrace.

The restaurant of the Belair hotel is a good address. The large pink straw hut of the restaurant-bar is built in a nice wooded setting. The address is known by locals and visitors alike, who come to enjoy the setting and the good food. A Togolese and French menu with a service that can drag on, but which on arrival is also proof of a home cooking. Fostin Kissi, the owner of the place, has the ambition to make his restaurant autonomous, by developing his own breeding and his vegetable garden. An address with taste and heart.

The Place de la Victoire park is a family venue, open to the public and free of charge. The restaurant in this large garden serves snack food, grilled meats and braised fish, as well as daily menus, either in the open air under the straw huts set out in a large garden, or in an air-conditioned dining room. With its playground and pretty green setting, it's also a good place for a family picnic, provided you enjoy a few drinks on the premises. The venue organizes concerts during major events such as Evala and national holidays.

The front of the Kara Queen Fastfood extends into a long terrace on the outdoor ambiance of the small shopping street. Laurent and Justine, a young Togolese couple from the region, run this place with two core values: kindness and well-crafted cuisine. Between Indian specialties such as Aloo Paratha, Paneer Pakora or braised chicken, there's also an alternative snack menu with a choice of burgers, sandwiches and spaghetti. The decor is very simple, but this little restaurant is very well run and appreciated by the locals.

This hotel-restaurant is a gastronomic reference in Lomé. The Franco-Beninese chef, who has worked in several French starred restaurants, has set up shop in the kitchens, with a very refined fusion menu. A choice of menu or wood-fired pizzas, in an air-conditioned room or in the garden near the pool. Roasted prawns with vanilla butter, tournedos of sole with smoked breast stuffed with a wasabi and ginger cream... Here you can enjoy recipes that are a change from the traditional menus. A beautiful address, which has taste.

Marcelo Beach has been set up alongside Pure Plage to form an attractive coastline in Baguida. A beach restaurant with blue deckchairs, beautiful, comfortable bungalows, paillotes for a snack and a large swimming pool at the entrance. The place is very family-friendly, especially at weekends, and many come to enjoy the all-you-can-eat buffet facing the sea on Sundays. A live band or DJ is invited to heat up the festive atmosphere on this beach, just ten minutes from the center of Lomé.

On the side of the national road, coming from Agou, this restaurant can be a good stop for lunch. It is popular with locals for its varied selection of fast food, from shawarma and hamburger to paninis and hot dogs, all at low prices. You can also eat good hearty dishes, such as beef filet with green pepper or couscous. Also oven-baked pizzas. The large covered terrace is a nice place to sit, unless you prefer a cooler place. In that case, opt for the large air-conditioned room.

Part store, part bar and part restaurant, this authentic place was created by young Togolese in 2013, members of the Organization for Food and Local Development (OADL) to encourage local consumption. On the edge of the lagoon, in the heart of a popular neighborhood, one can enjoy good local dishes, a fresh fruit juice or a local beer. The establishment is appreciated by the locals who come to watch the soccer matches in front of a big screen. Sometimes concerts, cooking workshops and markets are organized there.

In front of the university of Lomé, this address will be perfect for a lunch break. It is appreciated by the customers for its tasty pizzas, well garnished. There is something for everyone, since the menu presents more than 70 pizzas! There is also a varied selection of European dishes such as chicken basquaise or beef filet with green pepper. As for drinks, the menu is rather rich since it proposes many alcohols and sweet drinks. One can even be tempted by Brazilian drinks, good wine or champagne. Pleasant setting.

Nem 24 presents a fast food concept with an Asian label. On the menu, a large choice of Vietnamese dishes, prepared with quality ingredients. With drinks including some beers as well as a pleasant space to sit down. Of course, we will not miss the shrimp soup or the egg rolls as a starter, before being tempted by fried noodles with chicken or grilled fish. The portions are generous for perfectly acceptable prices. In addition, the staff offers a fast and efficient service.

Beluga is one of the most chic restaurants in Lomé. The muffled atmosphere and the subdued lights give a warm spirit to the main room. You can also opt for the outdoor terrace. The chef, of Belgian origin, proposes a delicious gastronomic and Togolese cuisine. On weekend evenings, an orchestra plays at the end of the bar. The menu changes every quarter, to vary the pleasures, but it is possible to order your favorite dishes. At the foot of the Beluga is the pastry shop and delicatessen, Saveurs du Monde.

The best address in town. In this local colour restaurant-bar, also known as "Chez Tanti Séverine", you will see the fufu pounders working continuously so that the pots are never empty. You walk past the steaming pots, constantly fed, and heated by clay pots on the floor. You choose your meal concocted by Tanti Séverine and your drink before sitting down, outside or in a room half-opened on the von. You can then enjoy a generous and tasty cuisine in a warm atmosphere. To discover!

Perhaps the best pizzas in Lomé, prepared on site by Gabriele, an Italian pizza maker who knows Africa well. They are made with natural leaven, which gives a thick but soft dough. Here, you can order pizzas by the slice, which allows you to taste all the flavors and also to share in the conviviality. You can also taste products imported from Italy, such as cold cuts or good wines. Depending on the chef's wishes, lasagna and gnocchi can also be on the menu. A little taste of Italy in the heart of Lomé.

Very good European and African cuisine in this hotel. Possibility to eat around the bar or under the big straw hut in the open air, with a solid wood furniture and some masks and statues well mottled. In addition to the pleasant setting surrounded by greenery, it is also one of the best restaurants in the city. The menu is a clever mix of the French and Togolese owners and their faithful team for more than 30 years: beef bourguignon, steak au poivre, chicken with peanuts and fresh peas or other classic side dishes.

For a change from Togolese specialties, this modern restaurant offers a culinary journey to Italy. On the menu? Wood-fired pizzas, lasagna and gratins, but also grilled chicken and fish. Everything is homemade, even the bread for the salads and hamburgers, with top quality products. You can even personalize your pizza by choosing your favorite ingredients. You won't be disappointed! The terrace is pleasant to sit on, but for more intimacy, opt for the air-conditioned room upstairs. Delicious homemade desserts.

It is one of the best butcher's shops in Lomé, offering a wide choice of fresh and quality meats. At the end of the day, it becomes a restaurant-grill, authentic and pleasant, where you can eat in a friendly atmosphere. You can choose your meats in the window and ask to have them grilled on the plancha, in front of your eyes. All kinds of accompaniments are offered: aloko, kolico, salads, fries or vegetable platter. Also very good homemade hamburgers. To accompany your meats, don't hesitate to ask for the wine suggestions.

Both at the service and behind the stove, Oumy, a courageous Algerian woman, welcomes you in her restaurant, in an intimate setting, with a Maghrebian decoration. Here, everything is homemade: bricks, couscous, tajines, brochettes and lentils with olives. The ingredients are fresh and of quality, the dishes tasty and copious. Also generous salads. The menu is simple but Oumy can adapt to all your desires by ordering in advance. As is the Maghrebian tradition, mint tea is offered during the meal. Efficient service.

This is the step-by-step hotel-restaurant of President Eyadéma, when he was travelling to his home region, Kara. There is a very good skewers.

Part café, part bar, part restaurant, Le Caliendi is a popular spot for locals and expats alike for its cozy, intimate atmosphere. The small room is tastefully decorated in a modernized African décor that is very pleasing to the eye. On the menu, you can find African and Asian specialties at low prices. You can eat very good thiéboudiennes (Senegalese speciality), maybe even the best in Togo! For a lighter meal, the egg rolls and Chinese ravioli are also very good. Delicious house cocktails and flavored sodabis.

A family atmosphere reigns in this small traditional maquis where one eats on large tables of tasty local dishes concocted by Gnamba, an excellent cook. Among other African specialties, you can order fufu with the homemade sauce you want, guinea fowl, goat, beef or fish. Here, we eat the African way, that is to say with our hands that we can wash at the entrance thanks to a very efficient home-made system. If you are not comfortable eating, do not hesitate to ask for a spoon!

The restaurant with its retro decor is spacious but not very bright. Here, businessmen and workers meet to have lunch with hearty dishes at very reasonable prices. The menu includes all the classic dishes, such as chicken, guinea fowl and fish, which you can accompany with allokos, yam fries or rice. Behind his restaurant, Constant also rents out four clean air-conditioned rooms, which are suitable for overnight stays.

What could be better than being comfortably seated on a quiet and airy terrace to enjoy African or European specialties, cooked with organic products? That's what this lounge restaurant, opened in early 2017, offers. For example, you can order fish paupiettes, marengo chicken with Creole rice or braised rabbit with mustard. In the evening, light effects brighten up the terrace, for a more intimate atmosphere. Events are regularly organized in a friendly atmosphere. To be discovered!

Le Phénicien is a snack bar, bakery, quality restaurant and skybar all in one. The first floor opens onto a fast-food restaurant serving chawarmas, burgers and Lebanese specialties. The space is shared with a patisserie where you can indulge in a variety of sweet temptations. The second floor houses a chic purple restaurant. Here, you can choose between Lebanese, Italian and French specialties. As for the top floor, you'll be spoilt for choice on the panoramic terrace overlooking the waterfront.

Here is a very good table where your taste buds will be moved by refined dishes, cooked with quality products. You will have the choice between a European and African cuisine that will not leave you indifferent by its pronounced flavors. We recommend the beef steak with port and duchess potatoes, or the roasted duck breast with carrot purée. For those with a small appetite, there are also sandwiches, salads and grilled meats on the menu. All accompanied by a delicious house cocktail, what more could you ask for?

The menu will whet your appetite with its gastronomic dishes with western flavours. Zebu steak with four spices and lentil cream, rabbit stew Belgian style or grilled lobster with fleur de sel, the choice will be very difficult! You can sit in the pleasant garden by the pool, in the restaurant on the ground floor decorated with cartoon characters or on the first floor, which offers a beautiful view of the ocean. The service is professional, the presentation neat and the food refined!

Both maquis and restaurant, you will have the choice to sit down in this establishment appreciated by the locals. The maquis is located in a large courtyard, where a few tables are scattered under the shade of terraces. Here you can get your strength back with salads, grilled meats and local specialties such as corn dough with peanut or ademé sauce. The air-conditioned restaurant is located at the back of the maquis. Here, you can choose between African, Asian and European specialties. Good welcome.

Wass, a friendly Togolese, lives from his passion in his maquis, located on the side of the road. He prepares in his small kitchen omelets, pizzas, classic dishes and world specialties. You can enjoy his tasty chicken tacos and his homemade samoussas. Here, locals and expatriates sit down in a courtyard where we quickly get to know each other. The atmosphere is friendly and you are well received by Wass who will do his best to make you feel comfortable. An authentic local maquis where it is good to stop.

The smell tickles the nostrils as soon as you enter this small maquis where hot dishes await the customers behind a glass window. Ameyo and her team of cooks cook every morning good local dishes. Fufu, atchèkè, rice sauce or spaghetti are, among others, on the menu. One comes directly to the counter to order one of the suggestions of the day and then sit on a large table on the terrace. The dishes can also be taken away. There is a local and friendly atmosphere in this maquis frequented by a clientele of regulars.

We eat the best lost bread from the square! The cook manager will be attentive to the wishes of your taste buds. Varied cuisine.

Here is a maquis like no other, reserved for meat lovers. In a large wooded courtyard, the most curious will be able to taste a bush meat rarely offered in restaurants and yet hunted in the surroundings. Antelopes, hyenas, jackals, agoutis, warthogs, varans and even pangolins, all can be eaten grilled on the barbecue or in a flavored soup. The maquis also offers good farm meats, such as bicycle chicken or guinea fowl. You can come and eat at any time of the day, in a 100% authentic atmosphere.

The establishment offers a breath of fresh air in the capital, with its wooded area around a pretty miniature golf course where it is good to have fun. Between two games, a few benches invite you to a well-deserved rest, with a delicious house cocktail in hand. Dinner is served under a covered terrace, a little higher up. The menu offers a wide choice of dishes, from beef brochettes to sole meunière, including chicken djenkoumé. Very good pizzas, including the Togolese, the boss's favorite! Good welcome and attentive staff.

This is a maquis well known to locals and expatriates in Lomé for the quality of its dishes, especially the braised fish, which everyone loves. The tables are scattered in a large open space, in the shade of the trees. The atmosphere is authentic and friendly. The menu also includes salads, spaghetti and Togolese specialties, including various pastas and sauces. The service is sometimes a little slow, but in this green setting, the wait is not unpleasant. On the other hand, the welcome is warm.

Built with local and traditional materials, the establishment opens on the mouth of Lake Togo, facing the ocean. The setting is superb for tasting seafood, such as braised lobster, charcoal gambas or marinated shrimps. Some meats are on the menu such as braised suckling pig and traditional beef brochettes. To enjoy the surroundings, boat or jet-ski rides are also available. Popular with locals and expatriates alike, the establishment often comes alive with live bands.

Paintings of the Mediterranean shores brighten up this family restaurant run by a Marseillais and his Togolese family. You will taste, without any doubt, the best pizzas of the city! The restaurant also offers braised fish, grills, burgers and chawarmas as well as a very tasty Provencal cuisine. The plates are well furnished for very reasonable prices. One can also settle down at the bar to have a drink and spend a convivial moment with the regulars of the corner. The team is moreover very sympathetic!