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Le Suffren Hotel & Marina
( 202 4900;
www.lesuffrenhotel.com
;
Le Caudan Waterfront; r from €188; )
Le Suffren is the
trendier sister hotel to the Labourdonnais Waterfront Hotel, just a short complimentary
boat ride away. For better or for worse you feel like you're almost out of the city despite
being just a couple of minutes from the waterfront. The rooms are smaller than at the La-
bourdonnais but the place has a very pleasant, convivial feel, with an excellent bar and
restaurant.
HOTEL
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Eating
Port Louis has a great eating scene where the ethnic diversity of the city again comes up
trumps. As the middle classes tend to reside outside the city, many places are only open
for lunch - head to the Caudan Waterfront in the evenings and on weekends.
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City Centre
The Central Market, Chinatown and the bus stations provide happy hunting grounds for
street-side nibbles, but you'll find stalls all over town peddling
samousas
(samosas),
gâteaux piments
(spicy cakes) and
dhal puri
(lentil pancakes). The general rule of thumb
is to queue behind the longest line - gossip travels fast and everyone seems to simultan-
eously know who's serving up the best stall grub.
Bombay Sweets Mart
SWEETS
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(7 Rémy Ollier St)
Bombay Sweets Mart is famous for the Indian nibbles colourfully known as
caca pigeon
(literally, 'pigeon droppings').
Ru Yi
( 217 9888; 32 Joseph Rivière St; mains from Rs 150; 11am-2pm & 6-10pm)
You can't go wrong with
any of the restaurants in Chinatown, but this one is a favourite for its commitment to high-
quality dishes. The atmosphere is a bit lacking, but then again when has an inner-city
CHINESE
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