Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Tunisia in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Tunisia
La Marsa and Gammarth anchor Tunisia's coastal dining. These are the places where sea-facing rooms, wine lists, and hotel dining sit closest together.
Le Golfe is a Mediterranean seafood restaurant in La Marsa with an extensive wine list. Open since 1955, it remains one of the city's most enduring dining rooms, with Gulf of Tunis views and a menu rooted in the coastal larder outside the window.
Azur is a Gammarth restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel Tunis with sea views, a wine list, and an extensive wine list. Its Italian and French Riviera coastal cooking sits inside a frame of seafood, market vegetables, olive oil, citrus, and herbs that defines this stretch of coast.
BLU is a waterfront seafood and Mediterranean restaurant in Gammarth, a Four Seasons dining room with a wine list, craft cocktails, and a beer programme. The position is poolside and seafront, on Gammarth's beachfront dining circuit, and the format is à la carte.
Dar El Jeld in Medina and Walima in Tunis Carthage Cedex serve traditional Tunisian cooking in a restored merchant palace and the Sheraton Tunis Hotel respectively. Adra in Gulf of Hammamet serves modern Tunisian cuisine inside La Badira.
Dar El Jeld is a traditional Tunisian fine dining restaurant in Medina, housed in a restored merchant palace. The kitchen works from Tunisian tradition, with regional spices and the coastal larder in the cooking. The menu is à la carte, and nightly musical performances run in the room.
Walima is a fine dining restaurant in Tunis Carthage Cedex, inside the Sheraton Tunis Hotel, serving traditional Tunisian specialties from an à la carte menu. The restaurant has a standard wine programme and an elegant hotel setting.
Adra is a modern Tunisian restaurant in Gulf of Hammamet, inside La Badira, serving revisited local cuisine à la carte. Its Oriental-inspired dining room has a sculpted ceiling, a carved mirror and hammered door details.
Four Seasons Hotel Tunis in Gammarth, Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort in Tozeur, Maison Dedine in Sidi Bou Said, and La Badira in Hammamet each hold Michelin Selected recognition. Four Seasons Hotel Tunis also holds a Star Wine List citation for 2026.
Four Seasons Hotel Tunis in Gammarth is a beachfront luxury resort and the reference for luxury travel on the Cap Gammarth peninsula. It holds Michelin Selected recognition, a Star Wine List citation for 2026, and 95 points on La Liste's Top Hotels ranking that year. The property has four dining outlets, a private beach, and contemporary Arabesque design.
Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort in Tozeur is a luxury desert resort with private villas. It holds Michelin Selected status and a Michelin 1 Key award for 2026. The 93 rooms draw on Moorish and Berber craft traditions, and the resort is positioned within reach of the Chott el Djerid salt flats.
Maison Dedine in Sidi Bou Said is a Michelin Selected boutique hotel in a former painter's villa above the Bay of Tunis. Floor-to-ceiling windows and an infinity pool keep the Mediterranean central, while the house carries the village's artist-friendly character into hotel form.
La Badira is an adults-only boutique hotel in Hammamet, a Leading Hotels of the World member with Michelin Selected recognition for 2025. It stands on the resort coast with private beach access and a Clarins spa, and the hotel draws on Hammamet's artistic heritage.
Chef Zhang serves Chinese cuisine in El Menzah, while The Residence Tunis in Gammarth is a beachfront resort and Dar HI in Quartier Ezzaouia serves sustainable Tunisian cuisine. Meliá hotel in Tabarka is a planned beach resort in Zone Touristique with proposed golf and spa facilities.
Chef Zhang is a Chinese restaurant in El Menzah, a residential northern suburb where Maghrebi tradition shapes the dining scene. It is the only restaurant in our guide for El Menzah, and the menu is à la carte.
The Residence Tunis is a luxury beachfront resort in Gammarth with Michelin Selected recognition for 2025. The property has a private beach and an award-winning Thalasso Spa covering 4,000 square metres.
Dar HI in Quartier Ezzaouia is a Michelin Selected eco-retreat designed by Matali Crasset, with rooms in individual towers overlooking the desert. The architecture draws on earthen building traditions. The hotel serves sustainable Tunisian cuisine and has a geothermally heated pool and a hammam.
Meliá hotel in Tabarka is a planned Meliá-branded beach resort in Zone Touristique, on the cork-forest coast. The hotel remains in planning, with an upscale beach resort format and proposed golf and spa facilities.
The strongest wine focus in our guide sits at Four Seasons Hotel Tunis in Gammarth, where Star Wine List recognition appears in 2026. Among restaurants, Le Golfe in La Marsa and Azur in Gammarth both have wine lists and extensive wine lists, while BLU in Gammarth adds a list alongside cocktails and beer.
Tunisia has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Four Seasons Hotel Tunis in Gammarth holds Michelin Selected recognition and a Star Wine List citation for 2026. Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort in Tozeur holds a Michelin 1 Key award.
Focus on Gammarth and Tunis, which have 3 venues each in our guide, then Hammamet, which has 2. Gammarth's restaurants are Azur and BLU, coastal rooms with wine lists. Tunis has Dar El Jeld in the Medina, a traditional Tunisian fine dining restaurant with a wine list. Hammamet has Adra in the Gulf of Hammamet, a modern Tunisian restaurant.
Formal meals in our guide are à la carte, at Dar El Jeld in the Medina and at Walima in Tunis Carthage Cedex. Dar El Jeld is traditional Tunisian fine dining in a restored merchant palace, with a wine list. Walima serves traditional Tunisian specialties in the Sheraton Tunis Hotel.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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La Marsa, Tunisia
Open since 1955, Le Golfe is one of La Marsa's most enduring addresses, ranked 44th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024. The restaurant sits against a panorama of the Gulf of Tunis, serving Mediterranean plates that draw on the coastal larder directly outside its door. Seventy years of continuous operation in the same seaside town is itself a form of critical credential.
Hammamet, Tunisia
Adra belongs to the hotel-strip side of Hammamet dining, where proximity to the coast and Cap Bon’s agricultural belt matters more than big-city tasting-menu theatre. The useful lens here is sourcing: seafood, olive oil, citrus, herbs, and market vegetables define the regional table, even when a venue keeps its format and pricing understated.
Gammarth, Tunisia
Azur sits in Gammarth, where the northern Tunis coast shapes restaurant expectations as much as any formal cuisine label. The useful frame is sourcing: seafood, market vegetables, olive oil, citrus, and herbs define how serious kitchens in this corridor signal place, even when menus resist neat categorisation.
Gammarth, Tunisia
BLU belongs to Gammarth’s beachfront dining circuit, where the setting matters as much as the kitchen’s relationship with the coast. Its poolside, seafront position places it in the resort-facing side of La Marsa and Gammarth dining, a different proposition from the medina formality of Tunis or the neighbourhood restaurants inland.
El Menzah, Tunisia
Chef Zhang occupies a quiet address in El Menzah, one of Tunis's residential northern suburbs, where Chinese-named restaurants remain a rarity against a dining culture shaped by Maghrebi tradition. The kitchen draws interest precisely because it sits outside that dominant local current. For those tracking ingredient sourcing and culinary provenance in Tunisia's evolving restaurant scene, it merits attention alongside the wider El Menzah offer.
Tunis, Tunisia
Set inside a restored 17th-century merchant palace in the Tunis medina, Dar El Jeld is among the more architecturally significant dining rooms in the Maghreb. The kitchen draws on deep Tunisian culinary tradition, presenting dishes rooted in the region's complex spice culture and coastal larder. Reserve well in advance; tables in the central courtyard move quickly.
Tunis, Tunisia
Walima sits within the Sheraton Tunis Hotel in Carthage Cedex, positioning itself at the intersection of international hotel dining and Tunisian culinary tradition. For visitors orienting themselves in the greater Tunis dining scene, it offers a structured entry point into North African flavour in a setting calibrated for hotel guests and business travellers alike. See how it fits into the wider Tunis restaurant circuit before booking.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tunisia.
Gammarth, Tunisia
At the northern edge of Tunis's coastal strip in Gammarth, Four Seasons Hotel Tunis scores 95 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking and a Star Wine List citation the same year. The property's contemporary Arabesque design frames 500 metres of private beach, four distinct dining outlets, and a hammam-anchored spa. It is the reference address for luxury travel on Tunisia's Cap Gammarth peninsula.
Tozeur, Tunisia
Anantara's Sahara outpost in Tozeur is among the more architecturally considered desert properties in North Africa: 93 rooms shaped by Moorish and Berber craft traditions, priced from $587 per night, and positioned within reach of the Chott el Djerid salt flats, the Star Wars filming locations, and the Tozeur medina. For a brand better known for island settings, the desert pivot is convincing.
Hammamet, Tunisia
For travellers approaching Tunisia's most established beach destination, it represents one of the more considered addresses on the Mrezga shoreline.
Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
A former painter's villa perched above the Bay of Tunis, Maison Dedine translates the particular light of Sidi Bou Said into architecture and atmosphere. Floor-to-ceiling windows and an infinity pool keep the Mediterranean as the constant reference point, while generous living spaces channel the village's long tradition of sheltering artists and travellers with serious tastes.
Nefta, Tunisia
Dar HI is a Michelin Selected hotel in Nefta, Tunisia, positioned at the edge of the Sahara in the Ezzaouia quarter. Its architecture draws from the earthen building traditions of southern Tunisia, placing it within a small cohort of design-led desert properties that prioritise local material craft over international chain formats. For Saharan travel in North Africa, it represents a specific and considered choice.
Tunis, Tunisia
Sitting on the Côtes de Carthage in La Marsa, The Residence Tunis occupies one of the more architecturally considered positions in Tunisian luxury hospitality.
Tabarka, Tunisia
A Meliá-branded hotel in planning for Tabarka, Tunisia's cork-forest coast, signals the kind of international chain investment that has so far bypassed this quietly serious beach and diving town. When operational, it would position Tabarka alongside the country's more established resort corridors, offering a recognisable four- or five-star framework for a destination that has long relied on smaller, locally run properties.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Selected entries from the current guide for Tunisia.
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