Tunisian cuisine uses a lot of vegetables, nuts, lamb, veal, chicken, fish and couscous (where vegetables, chicken or fish can also be added).
Brik
couscous
In Tunisia, it is traditional to start a meal with a salad that usually has tomato, lettuce, cucumber and brik (dough is used to wrap a boiled egg and vegetables, but can be made with another meat filling, for example).
Brik and salad with tuna
Along the Tunisian coast there is a greater consumption of fish and seafood, and it is also customary to serve chorba, a fish soup with tomato. Also very traditional is Lablabi (chickpea soup).
As starters, harissa (red bell pepper paste with other herbs) comes to the table with the bread, which can also be used to season meat and fish, for example.
Grilled fish
Try the "little fingers of Fatima" which are stuffed with meat and vegetables; meloukhia, stewed lamb; tajines, which are very different from the Moroccan ones: it is a kind of big omelet, with eggs, potatoes, vegetables and parmesan cheese.
SWEET
Dried fruits are widely consumed, especially dates. Tunisian pastry sweets consist mainly of puff pastry, honey and almond paste.
Baklawa has it all: walnuts, honey, almonds and honey; Makrouhd is a semolina cake with honey and dates or almonds, etc.
Sweets in the Medina of Tunisia
Ftayer is a fried sweet, like a heap, served mainly for breakfast, in the form of donut.
Marry
We often ate at the hotels where we stayed, but here are some restaurants we tried on our trip to Tunisia:
Melodies
- Lunch at La Victoire Restaurant, Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Tunes, Tunisia. Simple restaurant, but good food.
- In the medina of Tunes, we passed by Café e Restaurant M'Rabet.
- In the center of Tunes, on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, we found Le Dôme Restaurant. We did not eat there, but the place alone charmed us.
The Tunes Dome, Tunisia
Café e Restaurant M'Rabet, Tunes, Tunisia
HAMMAMET
- We dined at Chez Achour, which specializes in fish and seafood (but also has meat dishes).
Chez Achour, Hammamet, Tunisia
DJERBA
- We went to ChickKhan Tea House: there is mint tea with pine nuts or cashew and chichas to try.
Chick Khan Tea House - Djerba - Tunisia
Chá Chick Khan's house - Djerba - Tunisia
OTHER
- After visiting the Roman amphitheater of El Jem, we stopped (on the way to Djerba) for lunch at Tamaris. It is a hotel, but the restaurant is open to the general public.
Tamaris Restaurant © Tunis
Tamaris Restaurant © Tunisia
-Sidi Bou Said
Taste the tea with pine nuts in one of the most typical cafés of Sidi Bou Said.
Esplanade of Café des Délices Sidi Bou Said Tunisia
