Chez Yassine

If you’re after tasty food, you’re in the right place. I especially recommend trying their beef sausages — really flavorful! One small note though: if you’re not good with spicy food, make sure to let them know in advance, or be cautious. If you spot a little red ball of something on top of your dish or salad… don’t just mix it in without thinking 😄 It might be way too spicy for you! Also, their homemade lemonade isn’t your typical sweet-and-tangy kind — it has a slight bitterness, almost like lemon peel. So if I were you, I’d try a small size first to see if it matches your taste. It might not be for everyone.

Nestled in one of the strees of Marseille, this place offers amazing Tunisian food. I ordered the Lablabi with egg and Tunisian tuna and the homemade lemonade. The food was amazing and filling. The lemonade was good but I think the seeds got mixed in as well since it was a bit bitter. Other wise good food and food service.

Just wow. This place is a must for all foodies in Marseille. The staff were so attentive and got our somewhat complex order bang on. 0 mistakes. Not even a missing sausage. The house lemonade hits with a citrusy punch - you could be actually eating a lemon 🍋. It was €18 per head with drinks and we ate like monarchs in a hot year in a nutrient rich land.

Most of the menu is very similar dishes. Almost everything comes with Eggs and Tuna. Seating in the street is not the greatest. On the positive side it's a very affordable place

Small Tunisian restaurant. In Marseille standards, it’s very affordable. I ordered a menu of Ojja Natur, with chips and a drink, in total for 10.50€. The portion was very big, could only finish half. It was tasty but it had a particular spice inside I couldn’t identify and it was very strong. In any case, there are lots of dishes and it’d be good to try a few. Staff is very nice and service is fast.

Very authentic North African cuisine, with fresh mussels and grilled fish that cater to Asian tastes.

First time to this little restaurant. It's always crowded and I understand why. The portion sizes were very generous and fresh. Great value for the money. We both enjoyed our food. My friend liked the bricks but she said the eggs were a little too runny. Overall very pleased and will return!

I was randomly walking down the street, wondering what to have for dinner, when I passed by this place and caught a whiff of some good food. The staff were super friendly and helped me pick a dish since I had never tried Tunisian food before. The food was really good, with generous portions that were definitely worth the price. The taste brought back memories of my home country, which was a nice surprise. Overall, I’d definitely recommend this place. It’s worth a thousand times more than those fancy, overpriced restaurants with low quality. Thanks, Chez Yassine!

Totally recommend this to anyone visiting Marseille. The neighborhood is very bustling and the experience at the restaurant itself is great. The people working there are lovely. I ordered the egg (brick a l'œuf) and the ojja fruits de mer after reading other recommendations. I didn't love the ojja with seafood (felt a little off) and would order it with chicken next time. The lamb sausages (merguez) also looked very good, so perhaps I would order differently. Definitely order the house made lemonade!

The food was amazing! Best Tunisian/North African food I've had. Fresh ingredient and perfect preparation for authentic and delicious food! it's a simple place where the food you eat surpasses expectations.

I stopped here at the suggestion of several locals, and got the signature soup. Wow! Delicious. The portion is huge - it's a great value - and the takeaway container kept it HOT for quite a while after pickup. The outdoor tables were packed, and business was evidently brisk, possibly also fueled by positive reviews on several sites. Service was interesting - not bad, but I did feel a bit out of place (I am clearly not Tunisian). Anyway, I enjoyed my soup, which was fearlessly spicy (my preference), and I'd say it's a hit worth a return visit.

Love this place!!!! My personal favorite dish is the Merguez ( spicy lamb and beef sausage) served with hand cut fries...

Service and food was great! Definitely try the lemonade, it was amazing. We sat outside and we were brought bread alongside our meals

Out of a few remaining options for North African food in Marseille before I needed to leave, I chose this one based off a recommendation from a Tunisian friend, and my need to not eat too much before a large dinner that evening, knowing that Chez Yassine serves the street food peasant classic lablabi for quite a cheap price of 5 euros at its most basic. Right off the Rue des Capucins, a very busy market street where countless people could flash by and depart with your cash unnoticed in an instant, it's in an inconvenient part for travelers of a relatively safe area of Marseille, but once I arrived inside I could breathe easier. This restaurant is almost open-air and could be comparable to a Vietnamese sandwich shop in Houston in terms of décor, prices and menu offerings. As much as I wanted to try ojja and some Tunisian salads, all I had room for was lablabi and the version with an egg absolutely did not disappoint, far exceeding my efforts to make it in my Houston kitchen. The broth is redolent with cumin and chili pepper, spiked with onions and cilantro, and rich with the chickpea liquid, and made smoother and less liquidy by adding the egg, and goes perfectly with the provided baguette. The owner will strongly suggest you order a drink, and I would strongly suggest getting the housemade lemonade which is somewhat bitter but very easily drinkable. If I came back again, with an emptier stomach, I'd try some of the other Tunisian specialties, but I do have confidence that Chez Yassine serves the best lablabi in town and I would eat it any time I needed a cheap snack like I did this day. Americans are unlucky enough not to be able to experience North African food easily and thus visitors to Marseille should explore this fascinating cuisine at every opportunity - unless eating bouillabaisse! Bref, en français : La location de ce resto ne semble pas très sûr, car il y a beaucoup de marchés et il n'y a pas beaucoup d'espace. En effet, mon ami s'est fait volé près d'ici ! Mais, une fois que l'on entre en dedans, c'est assez petit mais le service est très rapide, les prix ne sont pas chers, et le leblebi est d'enfer ! C'est beaucoup meilleur que le mien ! Je recommande la citronnade aussi. Je n'ai pas pu manger n'importe quoi d'autre, mais si je serais retourné à Marseille, je mangerais ici à nouveau tout à fait !

After walking 25 km in Calanque National Park, on my way back to my Airbnb in the Noailles neighborhood, I walked in to this restaurant where half of the people looked very much like me. What made us different was that I did not speak a word of French or Arabic. The tables are fairly close to each other in this place. You end up talking to strangers. I did too. I talked to this young French couple on my right (we were practically sitting at the same table) who enjoyed practicing their English while translating the entire menu to me. Placed my order, then kept staring at what the people on my right were eating. They ordered all kinds of stuff. They smiled when they noticed I was very inquisitive about their food. Perfect opportunity to crack a conversation by asking what they had in their plates. Who says French are unfriendly? They made me try it all. The way they knew the ingredients of all the dishes made me think this wasn't their first time in this place. Chez Yassine is a Tunisian restaurant serving amazing and cheap food. I ordered Lebelebi Nature. It's basically a chick pea soup with some type of amazing broth which reminded me the famous broth of Ken's Ramen in Providence, RI. Lebelebi is not a chick pea dish, it's a soup and it's served hot with endless amount of baguette as all soups should. This garlicky, oniony, cuminy soup with the perfect amount of spice made my day on a chilly March day, what my body needed before laying on my bed and contemplating all the wonderful scenery I saw before closing my eyes for a well deserved sleep. Tomorrow is a new day and I am going back to Chez Yassine to try some of the other things this amazing place has to offer. If you ever end up in Marseille, you should give this place a try. You will eat the best food that 5€ could possibly buy. Enjoy!

We came here for a quick, cheap lunch. Felt we had to try some North African food as there's so many restaurants serving it in Marseille, but wanted something besides the traditional couscous. This place was packed with locals on Saturday night, but we returned Sunday morning for lunch. We had no idea what to order, but some gesturing granted us two dishes - a mixed salad plate of some kind, and lamb sausages in tomato sauce. The bread was fresh, and abundant - we loved how they just kept bringing it to people, who ripped it off with their hands and dug in greedily to the dishes. The Tunisian plate was a mix of all the salads in the window, plus canned tuna (unexpected), egg, and some sort of spicy harissa sauce. It was served cold, but was very flavorful - the egg coated everything, and you'd mix it all around with a hunk of bread and eat with your hands. The sausage was nice too, not as spicy as we'd hoped, but that tomato sauce was made for being soaked up with bread. It was good, and certainly incredibly cheap. We were full at the end, but I think both had hoped for something that would really wow our tastebuds, but we didn't get it here. For a place known for a large North African population, this particular place was a random guess and we felt let down by it. If you know you like Tunisian street food though, then I expect you'll like this, but we didn't know what we were getting into and we hoped it would be more.