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Brazzaville


The menu at this popular restaurant is something of a formality – nearly everyone comes for the speciality, poulet satanique, juicy cuts of barbecued chicken with a suitably hot sauce, which earns the dish its rather alarming name.

Other favourites include l'amirale, a tilapia fillet stuffed with fish meat and served with steamed bananas.


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Nearby Brazzaville attractions

1. Marché Touristique

0.03 MILES

Sift through all the tat at Brazzaville's tourist market and you'll find some decent weavings and woodcarvings.

2. Palais du Peuple

0.27 MILES

Heavily guarded and best not approached or photographed, this is the residence of Congo's long-term president, Denis Sassou N'Guesso.

3. La Corniche

0.65 MILES

This wonderful modernised embankment is a great place for a stroll, and affords fantastic views over the Congo River to Kinshasa, looming in the distance…

4. Hôtel de Ville

0.7 MILES

Brazzaville's modernist city hall has an enviable location just by the Congo River, and anyone who has spent time in France will notice the unmistakable…

5. Brazza Memorial

0.74 MILES

The body of Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, who founded the settlement that became Brazzaville, was returned to Congo in 2006 and is…

7. Marché Total

1.25 MILES

Brazza's biggest market, in the neighbourhood of Bacongo, Marché Total sells everything from technological wonders and caterpillars to monkeys and…

8. Basilique Sainte-Anne

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This modernist 1949 building was the crowning achievement of French architect Roger Erell, who was known for fusing Western architectural ideas with local…