Cape Town
In business under various owners (and names) as a cafe and mini-deli since 1904, the Blue Cafe's latest incarnation is perhaps one of its best. It's a…
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Lesotho
From the mouth-watering Italian food to the enthusiastic service to the delicious craft cocktails, the stars align at this outpost of the Cape Town–based…
Cairo
One of the most popular cheap snack places in Heliopolis, with multiple takes on fuul (fava bean paste) and ta'amiyya (Egyptian variant of falafel); we…
Northern Cape
With a long bar and B&W photos of old-time prospectors, this Victorian-era saloon is a fun place to pause on a Big Hole tour. Dishes include fish and…
Cairo
For Arabic-style pastries head for Cairo’s most famous bakery, easily identified by the crowds of people outside tearing into their croissants, sweets and…
Johannesburg
Just off 11th St, this easy-to-miss restaurant and wine bar is a stylish place with exposed beams and industrial touches, serving superb bistro food like…
Cairo
Perhaps Cairo’s best fuul, and worth elevating to dinner status (note the atypical hours). With each plate of beans, you get a spread of salads and fresh…
Cape Town
As their name suggests, Plant serves only vegan food, and it's so tasty that you may become converted to the cause. Mock cheese and egg substitutes are…
Serekunda & Atlantic Coast Resorts
Arty, veggie, healthy and organic, this is an unlikely addition to Senegambia's loud and boisterous food stations. The airy sculpture garden with its…
Western Cape
Once voted the top Italian restaurant in the country, La Sosta is something special. The beautifully presented food includes treats like butternut-and…
Malawi
This garden cafe has plenty of shaded seating, a menu of rolls, salads, wraps, burgers and burritos, and daily specials such as noodle stir-fry and masala…
Zambia
Long regarded as one of Ndola's best restaurants, this Italian cafe-terrace under a designer awning does thin-crust pizzas, pastas and Western mains…
Les Dauphins Heureux Café-Restaurant
Mahé
A classic beachfront setting with a shady terrace and a tropical garden characterises this classy eatery with a modernish feel. Choose between subtly…
Arusha
Cultured and laid-back, with the best soundtrack of any restaurant in Arusha, this place along the river behind the Natural History Museum is a popular…
Grand Baie
The food here's a good, if unexceptional, selection of grilled meats, seafood dishes and other local and international staples, and their octopus curry…
Zanzibar Town
Sit on the airy terrace underneath the pergola of exuberant bougainvillea and wait for enormous platters of tibs (grilled meat), injera (flatbread) and…
Rwanda
With a roaring wood fire in the corner, a sort of rainforest lodge atmosphere (despite being on Musanze's main street) and a laid-back feel, this is one…
Mozambique
Head to this old-world street-side cafe for caffeine Portuguese style and a bolo (cake) as you watch the passing Beira scene – both the pretty and the…
Santo Antão
A friendly, Italian-owned spot that serves up delicious pizzas and pastas as well as seafood (whatever is fresh for the day). It's located inland, a short…
Réunion
With its tiny terrace overlooking the harbour and simple yet well-prepared cuisine, this sweet lil' den is ideal for a quick and affordable sit-down lunch…
Benin
The chef, Guillaume, serves up French-Moroccan–North African fare such as Moroccan lamb and tagine, creamy hummus, excellent meats and river fish, all…
Sunshine Coast
This friendly, offbeat barn of a place overlooking the Sundays River serves up meat dishes such as kudu, impala or ostrich fillet as well as springbok…
Alexandria
This unassuming and breezy corner cafe serves up some of the best traditional desserts in town. You can get the usual ice cream in several flavours, but…
Gaborone
Indulge your inner carnivore. Part of a chain of Brazilian meat houses/samba parties, Rodizio’s is where waiters walk around with skewers of meat, and you…
Southwestern Uganda
An expat fave, this Danish-owned eatery is best known for its Friday night all-you-can-eat barbecue (USh40,000) with many side salads, but also serves…
Rodrigues
Perched above a plaza of tour operators, Port Mathurin's slickest haunt serves local and international dishes in swish surrounds. The marlin fumé avec…
Rwanda
This hotel restaurant, with its open-air terrace and pleasantly faded dining room (there's a brighter room upstairs), is the most popular place in town…
Meknes
If this friendly restaurant feels a little like somebody's home glamorously made over as a Moroccan palace, that's because it is just that. It's a bit…
Diani Beach
This place and its culinary siblings (there are two other branches, one about halfway down the beach access road and another at Ukunda junction) do…
Johannesburg
Rub shoulders with orthodox Jewish families in this welcoming kosher restaurant, which fills up quickly most evenings. The menu is all milk and fish…
Limpopo
The influence of the Portuguese owner can be seen on the Villa’s menu, and it's a nice little taster if you're on your way to Mozambique: seafood, buffalo…
Cairo
This frantically busy fuul and shawarma takeaway joint has a limited menu, but its food is fresh and good. The fuul (fava bean paste) sandwiches are…
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Réunion
This wholly unpretentious, neon-lit eatery set in a modern house by the main road is worth stopping at for its short list of flavoursome daily specials …
Eastern Cape
It's official – the gourmet-burger and craft-beer craze has reached East London, and Sanook does it particularly well. Burgers are juicy, tasty and come…
São Tomé
Jasmin is noted for being located in the only restored colonial building in the city, the lightly used Casa Cultural. After walking the streets on a hot…
Mozambique
Set in one of the more dilapidated sections of the baixa, Pic-Nic defies its name and location, with waitstaff dressed in starched white shirts…
Réunion
At dinner, wood-fired pizzas go down a treat at this lively joint near the town hall. They come either red or white (with or without tomato base), and are…
Addis Ababa
Come dinner and lunch, this local option sees few tourists and is alive with action. Tables spill onto a large courtyard topped by flowering vegetation…
Giza
Long a favoured post-Pyramids dining spot, Andrea has moved out to a new hilltop spot in New Giza, where you eat in the garden while overlooking the city…
Southern Rift Valley
The pick of the nyama choma (grilled meat) places at the Kikopey Nyama Choma Centre 31km north of Naivasha. The dining area is pretty run down, but the…
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