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339 E. 118th St. New York, NY 10035

212-369-7873

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Ivory Coast
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): African, Ivory Coast

Hours: Mon-Sat 1pm-3am
Price: $

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
Parking: No Parking

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The city's only full-blown Ivory Coast restaurant (other establishments we would characterize as coffee shops) is named after a bustling Abidjan neighborhood, and the excellent cooking reflects the combined tribal and Gallic roots of the cuisine. Peppe soup de poisson is really a bouillabaisse-a magnificent collection of seagoing creatures deposited in a fiery West African pepper soup. Other soups are mainly intended to be eaten with mashes and include peanut, white eggplant (known as "garden eggs"), okra, and pistachio. The dinner menu includes the usual French-leaning chops and brochettes.

2008 | Ivory Coast

The fish-pepper soup at Treichville (named after a neighborhood in Abidjan) bristles with crab, mussels, fish, clams, and shrimp. Need we tell you it's way spicy More »
2007 | Angelina Jolie's Last Meal

We suspect that when Angelina flies to Africa to adopt babies, she stays in the finest hotels and eats Western-style gourmet food. Accordingly, we think it only appropriate that she have a real African meal. Let's send her to Treichville, one of the city's few Ivory Coast eateries. There, she'll scarf a fiery seafood "pepper soup" that compares favorably with bouillabaisse, and the mash of manioc and plantains called foutou, daintily dipping wads of it in the garden-egg soup. "What are... More »

Broth-erly Love

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, September 12, 2006

Treichville is a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, that bustles with open-air markets, transportation terminals, and nightclubs that commence at midnight and pulsate till dawn. It's the poorest and most African part of a city that likes to thi... More »

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thevillagevoicebestof | New York, NY | 84 Reviews

| Sun, May 10, 2009

The fish-pepper soup at Treichville (named after a neighborhood in Abidjan) bristles with crab, mussels, fish, clams, and shrimp. Need we tell you it's way spicy?