The best restaurants Lybia

In the evening, the hotel manager makes pizzas to take, shrimp, anchovies, mushrooms and lots of pepper if you don't care. They are good and come at a very opportune time when they stay in a rented house but you don't want to cook!

A small Turkish restaurant offering hamburgers, liver sandwiches, pizzas, and very good chicken shawarma. Further east in the same street is the small restaurant El-Robban, calmer but of the same type.

Bab el-Bahr literally means "door of the sea", name of this quarter of the medina. This brand new little ndaxté sells small sandwiches (0,75 DL the liver sandwich) not exceptional with soft drinks, but it is worth a detour for its marine decor full of photos of sailboats.

A small ndaxté.

Inside the old town, a chic coffee-restaurant with mezzanine decorated in oriental style. The chef prepares Moroccan dishes as well as international, Libyan and even French cuisine for those nostalgic for basquaise chicken! At the time of our passage, the group owner of the restaurant was about to open a second on two floors with a bright decor, with its colourful walls embodying the fabric of traditional tents. Named the Rayma ("tent" in Arabic), it is located nearby (from the Old City, take the street left to go back to the port and turn right: The restaurant is located on the right side of the clock, before the Clock Square and recognizes its décor on the floor.

To eat on the thumb but in a superior frame! The boss is proud to recall that despite his modern decoration the establishment opened in the early 1960 s and shows his aged photos of a meeting of Ittihad, one of the two Tripoli football teams, against the Real Madrid. Moreover, the restaurant's acronym is that of the team. No need to add that his former players (the same as in the photo!) love to find himself at his table under the arcades. A quiet room on the floor, overlooking the medina of the medina, Bab el-Menshia.

The neighbour of the El-Mourjan restaurant is just as good as he and has also built his reputation on fish and seafood dishes. Also good dishes with lamb.

This popular restaurant with a pleasant atmosphere at noon serves méchouis, skewers, fresh salads, mezze and a very good cheese bread, in short, good Turkish cuisine based on fresh products.

This new outdoor café is strategically located near the entrance to the archaeological site at the edge of the forest. Under the trees, it is a nice setting for tea or coffee. Arab mélopées escape from a music station.

Formerly located on the water side in a part of Gargarech during the urban redevelopment, this restaurant has completely changed its face by changing neighborhoods. It is now in the form of a gigantic white tent (reminiscent of the decor of a great wedding) that can receive a few hundred people, and a quiet garden where other very pleasant tables are arranged. The kitchen of this restaurant famous for its seafood specialities and fish is always good. Also international and Italian cuisine. Servings are copious. Every evening at 20 a. m. musicians play under the tent.

The cafeteria of the Galaxy on the ground floor is much less the detour than the Mezzanine restaurant, but the room is very well kept and quiet.

A clean and healthy restaurant. The decor of the first room is pleasant, with pieces of ghadamsis handicraft and a bousouk (traditional musical instrument) attached to the wall. In the bottom room, from 19 a. m. to midnight, a guitarist adapts his or her repertoire to the client. There are pizzas, Italian pasta and delicious shawarma, plate (6/8 DL) or sandwich (2,25/4,5 DL). So taste the octopus salad that is delicious. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

A new restaurant, which has been installed near the low entrance of the archaeological site. The room recalls that of the museum café-restaurant with its colourful tourist decoration. Very clean, it offers a cuisine without surprises but very honest. You can also order tuna sandwiches. Just next to the restaurant, a café is under construction. A few metres above is the old restaurant.

At the time of a stay in Benghazi, you need to visit not only for his delicious cuisine but also for his room on the floor with very carefully decorated décor, recreating the framework of a Bedouin tent (framed canvas on the ceiling) with tables in cloth and benches, in a sifted light. A very nice restaurant, which offers a varied cuisine ranging from grilled fish dishes (a treat) and from delicious Turkish bread to cheese through small salads such as babaganouch. The Thursday formula is often a buffet animated by a singer. Attentive service.

The restaurant, at the entrance to the city centre, was refurbished about two years ago and offers a beautiful view of the harbour from the room upstairs. The cook prepares good fish and oriental, international and Italian specialities. It also serves sandwiches.

Good Moroccan cuisine based on harira, couscous and tajines. Also Libyan soups and couscous, Italian dishes, fajitas and fish dishes. In short, good Mediterranean cuisine. The restaurant is frequented by expatriates and tourists who appreciate the service and the oriental framework based on travaillé stucco and painted tiles. The small mezzanine on the floor is particularly charming.

Set in a fashionable street with quite chic cafés and boutiques, this restaurant offers excellent Syrian cuisine in a pretty distinguished setting at affordable prices.

The Zumit restaurant is also open to non-guests. We eat in the small patio of this ancient Ottoman trade hostel. Good international and Maghreb cuisine and good fish dishes.

The room is somewhat impersonal, but it is an address appreciated for its Lebanese specialities.

From the beginning of many visits from the medina, it makes it possible to start the walk full belly! This small fish restaurant is simply succulent. On the menu, the specialities of the Patron boss Mohammed Abeya, proud to show what he mijoter and to show in English on his recipes. They put water in the mouth: Squid salad, haraimi (fish in very spicy sauce!), white beans (fassoulia) and squid stuffed with rice, fish couscous, fresh fish cutlets, purchased every morning at the harbour.

The small walls decorated with small painted tiles were provisionally closed for renovation during our last passage. But just a few metres towards the green square a beautiful door on the right opens onto a second annexe on the floor, in a pleasant room with a lot of crafts. The evening meals are served in this room (by reservation by the morning).

This expansion testifies to the success of this former canteen at 5 DL breakfast, whose notoriety has constantly grown thanks to the mouth-to-mouth of its clientele of visitors to the Libyan, Libyan or foreign languages, to give rise to many newspaper articles, Libyan and even foreign, carefully compiled by the boss.