| Restaurants in Mauritania |
| Restaurants in Mauritania |
| Where to eat (to be incorporated) in Mauritania |
| Under this heading you will find on-line documentation with photos, the type of cuisine served , prices and a map of where the restaurants are located. |
| In the interim, here are a few recommendations so you won’t starve. |
Keep in mind the desert personality of Mauritania and do not hope to find restaurants, in the occidental sense of the word, outside the large towns such as Nouakchott and Nouadhibou.
In these towns, the price of an international cuisine is between 8 to 30 euros. Certain hotels are permitted to serve beer and wine to western visitors.
In the smaller towns such as Chinguitty, Atar, Rosso, etc, you can stop at an ‘inn’ (several offer pretentious touristic meals from 4 to 10 euros) or the authentic ‘roadside’ restaurants where the local population eat.
Finally, it is not impossible to find at the crossroads of two tracks in the dunes, a modest sheet-metal stall, or a tent, acting as a sort of stop-over restaurant for the native population in transit They serve meat or grilled fish with rice or vegetables for a few euros.
Without succumbing to the‘tourist’ psychosis, we encourage you to eat grills well cooked – our occidental intestines have a tendency to be a little fragile. The same could be said for those living in the large Mauritanian towns. The ancestral principles of hygiene that permit the nomad population to survive in a hostile environment, are certainly better preserved in the desert than in the suburbs of Nouakchott. |
| PS : Finally, don’t forget that patience is the first virtue of desert travellers. Sometimes you may think they have gone fishing for the fish you ordered! But, is it not this rupture of time that you came to find? |
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