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Brazzaville


This excellent restaurant offers Congolese, Senegalese and European dishes from its very unlikely location on a sandy backstreet of a Brazza suburb.

Dishes include a superb bouillon sauvage, a stew of several different fish, as well as n'goki à la mouambe, pieces of crocodile in palm-and-mushroom sauce. Have your taxi driver call the restaurant for directions.


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