Congo Republic Entertainment Guide

Restaurants in the main tourist centres that cater primarily to overseas and foreign visitors usually serve French cuisine. Traditional Congolese cuisine is hard to get unless you are game to try one of the smaller, less salubrious places that sell food to the locals. The coastal waters of the Congo are rich in fish and seafood and supply the most wonderful fish, giant oysters and shrimps. The restaurants and in house establishments in the hotels in Brazzaville also serve predominantly French food, a hangover from the years under the French but for those in search of spicier and ‘hotter’ food styles, there are cafes and restaurants that specialize exclusively in Italian, Lebanese and Vietnamese cuisines.

The hot favorites of Congolese cuisine are the piri piri chicken, Mouambe chicken in palm oil, palm cabbage salad and cassava leaves, saka saka made from cassava leaves cooked with palm oil and peanut paste and Maboke, freshwater fish cooked in large marantacee leaves.

 Entertainment options remain restricted to the few bars and nightclubs in Brazzaville and Point Noire. The highlight of an evening  out in Congo would be a live performance by one or the other of local music groups.