Restaurants cuisine du Maghreb Midi-Pyrénées

You have to slip into a small street in the St. Roch district to find the entrance to this Ali Baba's cave. In this astonishing establishment, devoted to the cuisine of the Maghreb, you'll experience a change of scenery. In addition to the food, the owners have invested in the decor, the atmosphere and the show to allow a total escape. The room seems to be straight out of the tales of a Thousand and One Nights: furniture, mirrors, earthenware, red and gold decoration… Everything comes from Morocco. In the middle of this setting, the specialties of the country parade at a high speed rhythm, it must be said that the reputation of the restaurant precedes it. Finally, on Saturdays, an oriental dancer comes to entertain already charmed guests.

On a night street in Nîmes, where you can be served late, Lakayna is the oldest Maghreb restaurant in the city. Maintained by a Kabyle family, for nearly 20 years, this restaurant has maintained its course with the creation of a day tea salon in 2010. The beautiful display of pastries at the entrance makes it really tempting to try. Bois, octagonal, octagonal tables, colourful curtains, oriental music and oriental music, you will find North Africa in all its evocative decorum. The traditional and family kitchen is supervised by the Sympathique Sympathique, which likes spicy flavours, often sweet-salted, and the ras el hanoud (curry, cumin, turmeric). Pastillas, laminated to meat and cinnamon, hello and tagines, home specialities are served dildo. Lamb, chicken, merguez, hefta (white viande) or fish, seafood accompanied by a semolina of common wheat, vegetables and legumes (chickpeas). The gourmands will continue with desert cakes or faisselle to honey. All accompanied by a mint tea, of course.

Amateurs of orientalism, exoticism to the Thousand and a Night may be disappointed by discovering Le Djerba. A terrace under bâche (winter), a counter that holds more than a snack than a real restaurant, this is for the basic decor… For the rest, i. e. the essentials, what is on the plate: no mistake, we're at the right address! The couscous, of course, from the simplest (vegetables, bouillon, wheat semolina) to the most royal, such as the Berber served with five meats (chicken, sheep, merguez, boulettes, kebab) are served in beautiful terracotta plates filled with semolina and chickpeas and vegetables raised in spices, notamment in particular. And if Mohammed Bencherifa has had his place for a long time on Victor Hugo Boulevard, without doing more salamalecs, there is one reason: Its kitchen of Magrehb (grill, salads, tajines, oriental pastries) and its mint tea are really good.