Restaurant Al-Dar

Kinshasa


There's a reason why this large, canteen-like Lebanese place is always full to bursting, and that reason is price. The food is classic Lebanese fast food and everyone from smart-suited businessmen to hip hop–styled young locals and exhausted UN workers come to eat here.


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