Restaurants Near and Middle East cuisine Abu Dhabi

This is a nice place where you can mingle with the Emiratis who take over the restaurant at mealtime. On the menu: saloona, a kind of soup with meat, similar to goulash, or the very hearty machboos, a dish made of rice and meat cooked with spices and cooked for a long time at very low temperature. For desserts and without hesitation, take the small fritters called lekeimat covered with date syrup. No alcohol is served in this establishment.

Nolu's is a fusion restaurant created by its happy owner who grew up in the United States and is of Afghan descent. She has succeeded in mixing a healthy and trendy Californian cuisine with revisited Afghan dishes. The result of this palette of flavours delights the taste buds, all the more so as the resolutely relaxed atmosphere plunges visitors into a space far removed from Abu Dhabi. A pretty room and a terrace, offering beautiful views over the water, make it a very good address for lunch.

Within the Rotana hotel, a few steps away from the Al Jahili fort, here is a very pleasant Lebanese restaurant. It offers a terrace in front of the pool, but out of the sun. This place is renowned for its traditional Lebanese cuisine. You will like to have some mezze, like hummus, babaganoush, fattoush salad, and of course manakish with zaatar. The dishes are very copious, but if you are still a little hungry, don't hesitate to have the lamb keftas! Mediterranean atmosphere with live concerts and dances. Shisha on the terrace.

This is another of the city's popular restaurants. Nestled in the Radisson Blu Hotel, this restaurant, whose name means "my place" in Arabic, is one of the best in the city. The atmosphere is pleasant thanks to its terrace surrounded by palm trees. On the menu, tasty Levantine cuisine like delicious mezze, manakish and saj. Otherwise, a lot of people go there to smoke shisha to the sounds of oriental music. Come for dinner and stay for a nightcap. Friendly, attentive and fast service.

By the pool of the palace, indoors with bay windows or on the bubble terrace, a charming Mediterranean table with Levantine accents. For a lazy lunch with a Greek salad or a slice of bread, an iced soup and a sorbet. In romantic mode with torches, with the dunes as a backdrop for a casual dinner. And since the desert is hypnotic, we extend it late at night by smoking a narguileh over the embers. The restaurant also serves some of the a la carte dishes on the lounge chairs.

We come here more for the atmosphere than for the food which is correct, but not exceptional. It is above all a Lebanese family restaurant. The pleasant garden with its fountain in which there are tables and sofas is a call to relaxation, a good place to come and rest at the end of a long day of exploring the city. You can order some mezzes, a pizza, a shawarma, a shisha or a fresh juice. Sometimes, an oud player, a small orchestra are there in the evening. Often a lot of atmosphere on the weekends.

This is one of the most awarded Lebanese restaurants in the capital and has been for years! Thanks to its large terrace, the restaurant offers a breathtaking view of the Marina and some of the city's iconic skyscrapers. The menu offers all the classic Lebanese dishes and it is absolutely delicious, not to mention the impeccable and attentive service of the staff. One of the best addresses in the city and one that has not stolen all the awards it has won! The best Lebanese restaurant in the capital without a doubt.