The best restaurants Yaoundé

Its name says it all: calmness around a small pool, a lounge atmosphere and an intimate setting, a green setting, carefully measured lighting, and quality cuisine. Cosy Pool offers traditional French dishes (kidneys, scallops, foie gras) and international cuisine (ndole, Thai-style sautéed prawns, tagliatelle). It's a place where you can enjoy a meal with friends, chatting to the sound of the piano, which seems to float above the pool and its bluish halo. A great place to start an evening.

Small and shady restaurant, under the pergolas, with its roof roof and its fabric shop. L'Esplanade offers a wide variety of very successful dishes: steak from capitaine mimosa, shrimps flambées and unavoidable Cameroonian specialities such as bouillon broth or peanut chicken. It also offers a wide choice of pizzas and pasta at moderate prices.

Mont Blanc is a small local invoice restaurant that attracts the world by cooking to Cameroon and French, for the sake of small and medium budgets. On the menu are beef fillets, captain… and frogs'legs!

Considered one of Yaoundé's most chic restaurants, Famous offers an international menu ranging from entrecote to sashimi and from 4-cheese pizza to vegetable wok. Many of the great classics and must-haves of world cuisine are on offer, as well as a choice of wines and cocktails, also selected from the great classics. The Famous is also renowned for its highly decorated and very comfortable setting, ideal for getting together with friends or watching a sports match from the bar.