MENA's 50 Best Restaurants 2025: The Complete List

Orfali Bros has held the top position in the Middle East & North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants ranking for three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025) and re-entered the World's 50 Best at number 46 before climbing to 64, all while operating as a neighbourhood bistro on Al Wasl Road. Three Syrian-born brothers run the kitchen across two floors: savoury below, pastry above, with a Michelin star awarded in both 2024 and 2025.

Trèsind Studio holds three Michelin stars and ranked #13 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024, placing it at the apex of modern Indian fine dining in the Middle East. Housed on The Palm Jumeirah with just 20 seats, its 'Rising India' tasting menu maps India's culinary geography across courses, pairing immersive, scene-shifting theatre with technique that draws on both subcontinent tradition and global precision.

Kinoya is an izakaya in Dubai's Greens neighbourhood, awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 and ranked third in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024. Five ramen varieties anchor a menu that extends to sushi, sashimi, robata, and tempura. Counter seats offer a direct view of the kitchen and should be reserved in advance.

Within the Giza Pyramid Complex, Khufus makes a case for modern Egyptian cuisine as a serious fine-dining proposition. Chef Mostafa Seif's kitchen ranked fourth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and scored 78 points on La Liste 2026, placing it at the top of Egypt's formal dining tier. The Pier 88 group property carries a 4.3 rating across more than 2,800 reviews.

Ossiano at Atlantis, The Palm holds a Michelin star (2025), ranks #5 in the World's 50 Best MENA 2024, and scores 93.5 points on La Liste 2025. Chef Grégoire Berger's 10-course tasting menu maps the Atlantic coastline, from Seville to Brittany, in a 54-seat dining room set against floor-to-ceiling aquarium windows. Wine Director Gordana Josovic oversees 885 selections across 4,115 bottles, with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Italy.

Ranked sixth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Fusions by Tala at Gulf Hotel Bahrain is one of the most closely watched dining addresses in Manama. The restaurant earns its position through a premise that the Gulf's ingredient story is worth telling on its own terms, holding a Google rating of 4.4 across 261 reviews.

Jun's sits on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai, where Kelvin Cheung — a third-generation Chinese-Canadian chef with formative years in Hong Kong, North America, and India — runs a kitchen that refuses easy categorisation. Ranked seventh in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024 and recognised with a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, Jun's has established itself as one of the more credentialed addresses in Dubai's Asian dining scene.

Ranked #8 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Shams El Balad began as a flower shop on Mu'Ath Bin Jabal Street and evolved into one of Amman's most quietly purposeful dining destinations. The menu reads seasonal and homey, grounded in Levantine tradition rather than spectacle. A family-run cultural space, concept store, and restaurant occupying the same address, it represents a particular kind of Jordanian hospitality that has found international recognition without chasing it.

Ranked ninth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Em Sherif translates the logic of Lebanese home cooking into a formal dining setting without flattening what makes it compelling. The room layers chandeliers, deep pink and blue textiles, and live Arabic music against a menu built from endemic Lebanese produce. It occupies the upper tier of Beirut's restaurant scene and prices accordingly.

Twelve seats, twice nightly, in a converted Al Satwa address that holds a Michelin star and a top-ten MENA ranking from the World's 50 Best. Chef Solemann Haddad's 12-course creative menu is plated at the counter in full view of every diner. The format is closer to a private kitchen than a conventional restaurant, and the reservation list reflects that scarcity.

Ranked 11th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Fakhreldin on Taha Hussein Street is where Amman's most considered Levantine dining happens. Under Chef Rafic Nakhle, the restaurant has become the reference point against which other serious Arabic tables in the city are measured, earning a 4.4 from nearly 5,000 Google reviews.

A homegrown DIFC fixture since 2014, Boca has built one of Dubai's more considered cases for modern Spanish-Mediterranean cooking outside Europe. Ranked 12th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and awarded a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, it draws a loyal weekday crowd from the financial district alongside weekend diners who treat it as a reliable calibration point for the city's broader Mediterranean scene.

A fashion designer's tribute to Baba-Nyonya heritage, Richard Rivalee operates out of a pair of heritage shophouses on Lorong Macalister, serving Peranakan home cooking with a precision that earned consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025. The room reads like a curated family home rather than a restaurant, and the kitchen keeps waste low by offering most dishes in two portion sizes. Google reviewers rate it 4.3 across 755 responses.

Few restaurants in Dubai have rewritten expectations as decisively as 3Fils, the unlicensed, cash-casual Japanese contemporary spot at Jumeirah Fishing Harbour. Ranked 14th at the World's 50 Best MENA 2024 and twice awarded the Michelin Bib Gourmand, it proved that serious cooking and stripped-back surroundings are not in contradiction — and that the MENA region's most sought-after table doesn't need a dress code or a cocktail list to earn its place.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in 2024 and 2025, and ranked 15th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Bait Maryam brings home-style Levantine cooking to Jumeirah Lakes Towers at prices that sit well below Dubai's fine-dining tier. Chef Salam Dakkak's Middle Eastern kitchen has drawn a 4.5-star rating across more than 4,000 Google reviews, placing it among the most consistently praised casual addresses in the city.

Marble started as a wooden roadside stall on Prince Turki Road in 2018 before its founders opened a full restaurant two years later. The gamble paid off: the venue landed at number 16 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024, placing it among a small tier of Riyadh addresses that now shape regional dining conversation. Google reviewers back the ranking with a 4.3 from nearly 4,800 ratings.

Row on 45 holds two Michelin stars (2024–2025) and a World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 rank of #17, operating from the 45th floor of Grosvenor House Dubai. The 17-course tasting menu unfolds across three distinct spaces for a maximum of 22 covers per sitting, with wine pairing programmes overseen by head sommelier Lorenzo Abussi. Reservations are required; business casual dress applies.

Dara Dining by Sara Aqel in Amman offers Contemporary Levantine cuisine across a chef-led tasting format. Must-try plates include the Seasonal Tasting Menu, Charred Amman Lamb with za'atar and preserved lemon, and the Date & Tahini Tart. Chef Sara Aqel emphasizes locally foraged ingredients, slow-cooked techniques, and balanced spice profiles. The restaurant earned global recognition as World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 — Rank #18. Expect layered textures, bright citrus notes, and warm bread pulled at the table. Dara Dining delivers a carefully paced gastronomic experience that highlights Jordanian ingredients through modern technique and exacting presentation, ideal for celebratory dinners and curious food travelers.

Zuma sits in DIFC's Gate Village as the Dubai outpost of a global Japanese contemporary group, holding a Michelin Plate (2025) and ranked 19th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024. The shared-format menu draws from robata, sushi, and izakaya traditions, while the bar programme — sake, shochu, and Japanese whisky — is woven into the meal rather than treated as an afterthought. Weekend DJs, a large terrace, and an island bar make this one of DIFC's more animated dining rooms.

On Rainbow Street, Amman's most culturally layered address, Sufra translates traditional Levantine hospitality into a structured dining format that earned it the #20 position in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list. Under chef Hassan Mezal, the kitchen builds its menu around the architecture of a shared Jordanian table, where cold and hot mezze, grills, and slow-cooked dishes arrive in a sequence that mirrors how the region has always eaten.

Ranked #21 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list in 2024, Zooba in Zamalek has spent over a decade making the case for Egyptian street food as a serious dining category. The Zamalek branch sits on 26 July Street, where the menu's architecture around traditional ful, ta'meya, and koshary formats signals something more considered than casual fast food. With 4.2 stars across nearly 6,000 Google reviews, the crowd verdict has long kept pace with the critical one.

La Grande Table Marocaine at Royal Mansour holds a place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 (ranked 22nd) and earned 97 points on La Liste 2025, alongside a Les Grandes Tables du Monde award. Under executive chef Karim Ben Baba, the kitchen reframes Moroccan cooking around vegetables, aromatics, and slow-cooked proteins rather than the familiar procession of tagines and cooked salads that defines most of the city's fine dining.

A fixture in Dubai's financial district for more than a decade, La Petite Maison (LPM) at DIFC has built a reputation that most restaurants in the city never reach: consistent enough to stay perpetually hard to book. With a Michelin Plate, recognition from La Liste and Opinionated About Dining, and a 470-label wine list weighted toward France, it sits at the serious end of Mediterranean dining in the Gulf.

Ranked 24th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Kazoku brings contemporary Japanese cooking to the Swan Lake compound in New Cairo, reached via a winding path through gardens and tennis courts. With a Google rating of 4.6 across more than 2,600 reviews, it occupies the top tier of Cairo's fine dining circuit and offers a measured, technique-driven alternative to the city's louder dining formats.

Ranked 25th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and holding a Star Wine List White Star, Gaia occupies the eighth floor of DIFC's Gate Village 10 with a Mediterranean format that has drawn a consistent celebrity following since 2018. Among Dubai's upper tier of internationally recognised dining rooms, it remains one of the most booked addresses in the financial district.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder in 2024 and 2025, and ranked 26th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, 21 Grams brings Balkan cooking to Umm Suqeim 2 at a mid-range price point that puts serious culinary recognition within reach. Chef Milan Jurkovic's kitchen occupies a second-floor space in Meyan Mall, drawing a 4.6-star rating across more than 1,000 Google reviews.

Sachi Cairo in Cairo delivers contemporary Mediterranean fine dining driven by seasonal Egyptian produce and a tasting-menu focus. Notable dishes include Seasonal Tasting Menu, Charred Local Fish, and Slow-Cooked Lamb Shoulder, each tempered with bright citrus, roasted vegetables and house-made sauces. The kitchen emphasizes live plating and precise technique, offering vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options alongside a curated regional wine and arak list. Recognized in World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 at #27, Sachi Cairo pairs confident flavors with warm service, textured plates, and crisp, mineral-driven wines for a striking, appetite-focused evening in Egypt's capital.

A Michelin-starred wood-fire kitchen operating out of a Jumeirah villa, 11 Woodfire ranks #28 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and carries a Opinionated About Dining placement for 2025. Chef Brando Moros builds his menu across meat, seafood, and vegetables, treating each with the same precision over oak, hickory, and hay coals. Dinner service runs from 6 pm on Mondays; Tuesday through Sunday opens at noon.

Ranked 29th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Marmellata Bakery operates outside every familiar pizza reference point — no New York slice shops, no Neapolitan tradition. Located at Abu Dhabi's waterfront Souk Al Mina, it draws queues hours before opening and holds a 4.7 Google rating across more than 1,100 reviews. This is the city's own answer to the pizza question.

Ranked 30th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Kuuru brings Nikkei cuisine to Jeddah's Al Khalidiyyah district under the Leylati Group banner. The restaurant draws a direct line between Japanese technique and Peruvian ingredient tradition, a pairing that finds unexpected resonance in a city shaped by generations of migrant communities. It is one of the more considered entries in Saudi Arabia's accelerating fine-dining scene.

Lunch Room in Riyadh redefines contemporary Middle Eastern dining with seasonal tasting menus and bold regional flavors. Signature dishes include the Seasonal Tasting Menu, Slow-Roasted Local Lamb and Charred Cauliflower with Za'atar. The kitchen focuses on Saudi produce, precise technique and balanced spice, offering layered textures from crisp pickles to silky reductions. Recognized on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list at #31, Lunch Room delivers an intimate, sensory meal where aromatic spices, bright acid, and warm bread arrive in thoughtful sequence. Expect attentive, polished service and an evolving menu that highlights the best of the region in every bite, perfect for discerning travelers seeking roast, smoke, and seasonal freshness.

Sesamo brings the Italian kitchen of Massimiliano Alajmo into the Royal Mansour, Marrakesh's most architecturally ambitious hotel. Chef Riccardo Barni works local Moroccan produce alongside imported Italian ingredients, framed by a dining room and sunset patio that rank among the medina-edge's most considered settings. La Liste places it at 89 points (2026), and it holds a Les Grandes Tables du Monde award and a World's 50 Best MENA ranking of #32 (2024).

On the second floor of the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Atlantis The Royal, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal reconstructs centuries of British culinary history through dishes drawn from medieval manuscripts, Tudor kitchens, and Georgian banquet tables. The wine program runs to 1,560 selections across 7,310 bottles, with Burgundy and Bordeaux as the headline strengths. Ranked #33 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and #76 on La Liste's 2026 global list.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for 2024 and 2025, Izakaya brings Japanese contemporary cooking to Zagreb's Selska cesta at single-euro price points that sit well below the city's starred competition. Chef Num Samuay (Weerawat Triyasenawat) has earned a global footprint: the kitchen ranked 34th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, a credential that makes this one of the most internationally recognised addresses in Croatia.

A Sydney-inflected all-day dining room in Marrakesh's Gueliz neighbourhood, +61 landed at #35 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list — a signal that its casual, produce-led format has found real traction beyond the expat crowd. With a Google rating of 4.7 across nearly 800 reviews, it occupies a distinct position in a city where most celebrated tables default to Moroccan tradition or French formality.

13C Bar in the Back in Amman serves contemporary Middle Eastern tasting cuisine that balances bold regional flavors with precise technique. Notable dishes include Charred Aubergine with pomegranate molasses and smoked yogurt, Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with freekeh and tarator, and Rosewater Semolina Cake with pistachio cream. The restaurant pairs a seasonal tasting menu with a focused cocktail and wine program, delivering an intimate, bar-in-the-back experience that earned World’s 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 — Rank #36. Expect warm, tactile textures, bright citrus notes, and slow-cooked depth that make each course memorable and share-worthy.

At the Four Seasons Dubai Jumeirah Beach, Mimi Kakushi draws its references from 1920s Osaka, pairing an era of Japanese cultural flourishing with a contemporary kitchen that applies global technique to quality-sourced ingredients. Ranked 37th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, it sits at the sharper end of Dubai's Japanese dining tier, where atmosphere and culinary craft are expected to operate at the same level.

LPM Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi presents French Mediterranean cuisine rooted in Niçoise tradition. Must-try dishes include Niçoise-style Salad, Whole Grilled Sea Bass and Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb. The kitchen highlights market-fresh seafood, seasonal produce and simple, bright preparations that let ingredients sing. A recent accolade—World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Rank #38—underscores the restaurant's regional standing. Expect warm service, an extensive French and Mediterranean wine list, and plating that emphasizes color, texture and clean flavors. The overall experience is lively yet polished, with fragrant olives, caramelized crusts and citrus brightness on every plate.

Aseeb in Riyadh presents Modern Middle Eastern fine dining that centers on seasonal Saudi produce and refined technique. Notable dishes include Smoked Lamb Shoulder with date glaze, Charred Eggplant with tahini and pomegranate, and Cardamom Panna Cotta with rosewater syrup. The tasting menu moves through coastal fish, local grains and desert fruits, each course delivering layered spice, bright acidity and precise textures. Recognized on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list at #39, the kitchen balances local ingredients with international technique. Expect warm service, a focused wine and tea pairing program, and a meal built to be shared and remembered.

Ranked 40th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Sachi Giza has established itself as one of the most closely watched dining addresses in the Egyptian capital region. Located in First Al Sheikh Zayed, the restaurant holds a 4.6 Google rating across more than 800 reviews, placing it in a peer set that includes the country's most serious contemporary tables.

TakaHisa at Banyan Tree Dubai on Bluewaters Island holds a Michelin Plate (2025), a Star Wine List White Star, and a ranking of 41st in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024. The kitchen is led by wagyu specialist Chef Hisao Ueda alongside sushi master Takashi Namekata, a two-chef model that positions this as one of the more seriously composed Japanese addresses in the UAE.

Baron occupies a pastel-pink building in Doha's redeveloped Mina District, bringing the Beirut original's approach to a room of exposed pipework and an open kitchen. The menu moves across the eastern Mediterranean and into North Africa, with generous sharing plates built around familiar aromatics pushed in less predictable directions. A 2025 Michelin Plate and a rank of 42 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list confirm its position in Doha's mid-to-upper dining tier.

CUT by Wolfgang Puck reimagines the modern steakhouse with exacting precision, world-class sourcing, and cinematic flair. In a sleek, artful setting, guests embark on a progression of meticulously selected beef—Japanese Wagyu, American ribeye, and rare cuts—each kissed by fire, perfumed with woodsmoke, and finished with a jeweler’s attention to detail. Elevated sides and vibrant, globally inflected sauces add nuance, while an encyclopedic cellar offers vintages as bold or restrained as your evening requires. Service is poised yet warmly intuitive, ensuring every moment feels both exclusive and effortless. For the traveler who collects experiences, not just reservations, CUT delivers a singular expression of luxury: elemental, sensual, and unmistakably modern.

Open since 1955, Le Golfe is one of La Marsa's most enduring addresses, ranked 44th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024. The restaurant sits against a panorama of the Gulf of Tunis, serving Mediterranean plates that draw on the coastal larder directly outside its door. Seventy years of continuous operation in the same seaside town is itself a form of critical credential.

Smoked Room at The Palm Jumeirah holds a Michelin star and a top-45 ranking in the World's 50 Best MENA list for 2024, placing it among Dubai's most critically recognised contemporary tables. Chef Massimiliano Delle Vedove's kitchen works a fire-and-smoke format that earns its weight in a city where theatrical dining concepts are common but rarely this disciplined. Google ratings of 4.9 confirm the reception.

Ranked 46th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Le Petit Cornichon holds a confirmed position inside Cairo's most-recognised dining tier. With a Google rating of 4.6 across 327 reviews, the restaurant draws consistent attention from both regional and international visitors. For travellers building a serious Cairo itinerary, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the city's other award-recognised tables.

Cairo's first outpost of the Dubai-born kushiyaki format, Reif Kushiyaki in New Cairo ranked #47 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024. The format centres on Japanese skewer traditions adapted for a regional audience, with a 4.3 Google rating across 302 reviews confirming consistent execution. It sits in New Cairo's By The Waterway development, at a remove from the city's older dining districts.

Ranked 48th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, La Grande Brasserie by Helene Darroze operates inside the Royal Mansour — Marrakesh's most architecturally considered hotel — bringing a French brasserie format into conversation with the city's medina context. A 4.5 Google rating across 683 reviews suggests the recognition lands with guests as consistently as it does with industry judges.

Ranked 49th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Myazu brings a pan-Asian culinary approach to the As Sulimaniyah district of Riyadh, guided by Scottish chef Ian Pengelley. With a Google rating of 4.4 across more than 9,000 reviews, it occupies a clear position at the upper tier of the Saudi capital's international dining scene. Expect technique-led cooking that draws on texture and aroma as structural principles.

On Saadiyat Island, NIRI brings a restrained Japanese contemporary sensibility to Abu Dhabi's dining scene. Holding a Michelin Plate (2025) and ranked 50th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, the mid-price restaurant pairs clean design with ingredient-led cooking at an accessible price point that few recognized Japanese kitchens in the Gulf can match.