Sahafary plateau · DIANA region
La Rouge
A restaurant on a plateau sixty kilometres from the nearest market. Everything is cooked on site, most of it comes up from the Irodo gardens that morning, and the welcome cocktail is on the house.
Service
- Lunch11:30 – 15:00
- Dinner18:30 – 21:30
Open every day. Dinner is served only to guests staying at the camp or holding an evening booking.
Set menus
What most people order, and what is included in the circuits.
Plateau lunch
Welcome cocktail, one starter, one main, one dessert, ranovola.
€14.42per person
Camp dinner
Everything off the coals, served at the long table, eaten after dark.
€16.92per person
Garden menu
Fully vegetarian, mostly vegan, built from what the Irodo gardens sent up that morning.
€13.08per person
The menu
Prices in ariary. The kitchen changes dishes with the market, so what is listed is what we cook most weeks.
On arrival
The welcome cocktail is offered to everyone who eats with us.
Welcome cocktail
On the houseRum arrangé with vanilla and lychee, or the same without alcohol.
- Signature
Achards and cassava crisps
€3.46Pickled green mango, carrot and ginger, cut sharp against fried cassava.
- Vegan
- Gluten free
Starters
Soupe joany
€4.23Broth of greens, ginger and a little zebu bone, from the north coast.
Sambos
€3.85Four fried parcels, beef or vegetable, with a tomato and chilli sakay.
- Spicy
Lasary voatabia
€2.88Tomato, onion and spring onion dressed with lemon, eaten cold.
- Vegan
- Gluten free
From the kitchen
Every main is served with red rice from the highlands.
Romazava
€8.08The national dish: zebu simmered with anamalaho greens, which numb the tongue slightly and are meant to.
- Signature
- Gluten free
Ravitoto sy henakisoa
€7.69Pounded cassava leaves cooked long with pork and coconut. Dense, green, and the thing to order once.
- Signature
- Gluten free
Akoho sy voanio
€7.31Chicken in coconut milk with ginger and green pepper, from the coast rather than the highlands.
- Gluten free
Grilled zebu skewers
€6.92Over coals, with sakay on the side and a wedge of lime. The camp dinner staple.
- Spicy
- Gluten free
Fish of the day, grilled
€9.23Brought up from Ramena that morning. Whatever came in, cooked simply.
- Gluten free
Vary amin'anana
€5.38Rice cooked with greens and ginger until it collapses into itself. The vegetarian main, and not an afterthought.
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten free
To finish
Koba ravina
€3.08Rice flour, peanut and banana steamed in banana leaf for hours. Cut in slices, eaten warm.
- Vegetarian
- Signature
Mofo gasy
€2.69Small rice-flour pancakes off the coals, three to a plate, with honey from the plateau.
- Vegetarian
Fruit of the season
€2.31Mango from October, lychee in December, pineapple most of the year, papaya always.
- Vegan
- Gluten free
Drinks
Ranovola
On the houseBurnt-rice water, served hot. The everyday drink of a Malagasy table, and free with any main.
- Vegan
- Signature
THB, 65 cl
€2.31Three Horses Beer, cold, which on the plateau is an achievement.
Rhum arrangé, glass
€2.88Vanilla, lychee, ginger or wild pepper. The ginger one is not for beginners.
Fresh juice
€1.92Tamarind, baobab, passion fruit or whatever the garden gave us this week.
- Vegan
- Gluten free
