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Restaurant Name: no name

Small anonymous restaurant. When I ask "what can we eat", the manager lifted a metal slab closing a parallelepiped made of concrete blocks and showed skewers fitted with pieces of lamb that had slowly steamed in a kind of home made "Berber oven". Good meal for two with 1/2 kilo of lamb, spaghettis, a mechouia salad, a bottle of water and two mint teas for 13 dinars (10 euros). No alcoholic beverage.
After dinner, we could watch the preparation of the next meal to cook in the oven. The owner took out of the fridge half a lamb and began to cut it in small pieces. Then he threaded these pieces on wooden skewers and weighted each skewer on a Roberval balance, in order to get 1 kilo skewers and 1/2 kilo skewers. The weight had to be very accurate. Then, he collected around the restaurant some branches (amazingly few wood), put them into the oven, light them and after a while, closed the oven with the metal lid in order to smother the fire. After that, he put the skewers, standing along the inside of the oven and closed it again. The lamb should cook very slowly, for several hours, at low temperature until the evening.


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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Directions: Cross road between the road from the Jorf ferry (C 116) and the Medenine-Gabès road (P1)

Restaurant Name: no name

Several small unnamed "gargotes" along the road. We choose one randomly and for 10 dinars we had for two a plate with harissa (mashed chili), another plate with olive oil and 1/2 kilo of mutton (tasty but not very tender). You had to dip a piece of bread in the olive oil, add some harissa and taste. Delicious if you are not afraid of hot dishes. No alcoholic beverage.


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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: El Guettar
Directions: Road from Gabes to Tamerza