Le Royaume du Couscous
A budget-friendly restaurant in the city center that specializes in couscous, offering lamb, osban, sweet seffa and other variations in one place.
Located at 15 Ho Chi Minh Street in the city center, about 750 m from the Sacré-Cœur Cathedral and about 1 km from the Bey's Palace. It is an Algerian restaurant dedicated to couscous. You can choose lamb or chicken couscous, plus osban (stuffed lamb tripe), masfouf with peas and broad beans, and sweet seffa dusted with almonds and pistachios and drizzled with honey. You can also add merguez sausage, eggs and sweet onion tfaya as you like. The menu also includes rechta noodles and chakhchoukha. Prices are about 1,000–2,000 dinars per person, offering good value, and takeaway is available. It is closed on Saturdays.
Opening hours
11:30–23:00 (until 22:00 on Fridays); closed on Saturdays (confirm with the restaurant)
Nearby sights
- Former Sacred Heart Cathedral
- Promenade de Létang
- Medina Jedida Market
- Ahmed Zabana National Museum
- Palace of the Bey
- Place du 1er Novembre
- Pasha Mosque
- Sidi El Houari Old Town