Get us in your inbox

Search

Zerda Café ( 10e )

  • Restaurants
  • 10e arrondissement
  • price 2 of 4
  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Zerda Café
Zerda Café
Advertising

Time Out says

3 out of 5 stars

A sixty-year old Algerian institution in the 10th, known for its excellent couscous.

This couscous restaurant on rue René Boulanger has been open for almost sixty years. Established in 1946, and taken over fifteen years ago by the Achour family, Le Zerda Café’s orientally decorated main room is always packed with diners hungry for their tagines and coucous.

The classics includes the excellent merguez and meatballs (€18.50), which is gargantuan with a mountain of super-fine couscous or alternatively the sweet-savoury fassi (€18.50) with dried fruit, chickpeas, confit onions, and fragrant, delicately flavoured meatballs. Another must-try (but perhaps not all in one go – the couscous is a proper belt-buster) is the chicken or pigeon pastilla (€8.90), with crispy filo pastry, dusted in icing sugar and baked to perfection. The wine can be left by the wayside (we tried a very forgettable Algerian, Fleur d’Aboukir) but the dishes are so intense that water or beer would make better drinking partners.

Second address: 125 rue de Tocqueville, Paris 17th

TRANSLATION: MEGAN CARNEGIE

Written by
Zazie Tavitian

Details

Address:
15 rue René Boulanger
Paris
75010
Transport:
Metro: Strasbourg Saint-Denis
Price:
Couscous €18.50-22, tagines €15.50-19.50
Opening hours:
Mon-Sat midday-2.30pm, 7-11pm
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like