The best lounge bars Mascate

The Cliff Deck Café offers a breathtaking view of Muscat Bay. Initially, the space was designed to promote the residential project being built just below, hence the huge scale model in the lobby. Nevertheless, the spot is quite exceptional, and one also comes here for a drink with a view. From the terrace, as you quench your thirst with a fresh juice, a beer or a glass of wine accompanied by mezzés, you can contemplate the mountains plunging steeply into the Arabian Sea. Musical evenings at weekends.

Under the oriental style arches and wooden ceilings, in the elegance of a lobby with soft natural tones, Tarini, luxury lounge, opens in panoramic on the bay of Bandar Jissah. If you want to enjoy quick meals or pastries at any time of day, come preferably forAfternoon Tea and its sweet and salty delights (scones, macaroons, chocolate fondue, salmon sandwiches, etc.) to accompany a tea or coffee. A moment of oriental break among the Omani elite who love the place! Terrace.

On the first floor of the Radisson Blu hotel, this is one of the capital's very few cigar bars and smoking rooms. With its coffered ceilings, elegant chandeliers and dark wood panelling, the warm, subdued setting lends itself to hushed conversations between people of good taste. The menu offers a selection of quality tobaccos and a choice of top-of-the-range beverages - whiskies, rums, wines... In a more relaxed style, the O'Malley Irish Pub next door is the perfect place to end or continue the evening in a convivial, convivial Anglo-Saxon atmosphere.

Less impressive than the atrium of the Ritz Al Bustan hotel, but more central and also very oriental, the lobby of the Grand Hyatt hotel is a chic, calm and hushed place where, in the exotic ballet of men in dishdashas, come to have an English high tea with scones and salted delicacies. Mainly frequented by Omanis, the place, all gilded, drapes, stained glass windows and arabesques, has a real power of disorientation and one feels invited in a large Arab residence. Snacking menu also for the small sweet or salty hunger.