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Cafés to visit in Senegal

1 café in 1 city. Places change: check opening hours before you go.

Local tradition

Café Touba in Touba

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Local tradition · Around the Great Mosque, Touba

Café Touba is coffee roasted and ground with djar (grains of Selim) and sometimes cloves, then brewed like filter coffee. It is named after this holy city of the Mouride brotherhood, whose founder Amadou Bamba brought it back from exile in 1902, and it is served at ceremonies and the Grand Magal pilgrimage.

Order: Café Touba

💡 Its use has spread to cities across Senegal, so you can try it well beyond Touba.

Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.

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