Restaurants provide mostly French cuisine, and the coast has excellent fish, giant oysters and shrimps. In Brazzaville the main hotels have good restaurants serving French cuisine, and there are also restaurants specialising in Italian, Lebanese and Vietnamese dishes. Pointe-Noire and Loubomo also have restaurants and bars, usually in hotels, with table service. Some bars also have counter service.
Local groups are popular in the main towns.
Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire have several nightclubs. In Brazzaville there are shops, colourful markets and an arts and crafts centre at Poto Poto which displays and sells, amongst other things, local paintings and carved wooden masks and figures. The two main markets are Moungali and Ouenze. Avenue Foch is crowded with street vendors. Some shops close on Monday afternoon and a few will open on Sunday morning.