Restaurants in Aqaba
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Ali Baba Restaurant
With its wooden awning, leafy cannas and potted palm trees, this favourite still draws the crowds. It has a large outdoor seating area wrapped round the corner facade and offers a large menu of mezze, grilled meats and fish, including sayadieh (JD8). It’s a sociable place to come for breakfast, a fresh juice or a cake between meals, but it really comes into its own in the evening.
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Royal Yacht Club Restaurant
With views of the marina, this elegant, wood-panelled restaurant is the place to savour a romantic sunset and mingle with Aqaba’s nouveau riche. The mostly Italian menu includes Mediterranean favourites like crab, avocado, shrimp and artichoke salad, mussels Provençale, and homemade vegetarian pasta. Reservations are recommended. Above the restaurant is a bar which closes around 11pm.
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Al-Shami Restaurant
In a lane between Raghadan and Zahran Sts, the Shami is another cheap place recommended by readers. The menu (printed in English outside) is quite extensive and the air-conditioned dining area upstairs has good views.
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Mina House Floating Restaurant
This is an old favourite but recent travellers' reports suggest that it's now become more of a local male hang-out, so lone women might want to get a second opinion before heading out here. The restaurant is on a boat moored (or rather cemented) to the shore south of Aqaba castle. The fish is good considering it is always freshly caught, and not frozen as in some other Aqaba restaurants. The setting is very pleasant, with good views over the gulf to Eilat and Taba.
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Silk Road Restaurant
One of Aqaba's finest restaurants, this is a great place to blow the budget or celebrate a special occasion. It would be a false economy not to try the delicious seafood salads, chowders or main courses. There are three attractive dining areas, with traditional low seating, and nightly (Russian!) belly-dancers in summer which you can easily enjoy or escape. There's also an extensive, reasonably priced wine and alcohol list.
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Blue Bay
The seafood menu here is a cut above the rest with large portions of beautifully prepared catch-of-the-day, presented with finesse. The sleek glass tables and open-plan upper seating area attract Jordan’s in-crowd and groups of ‘in-the-know’ expats. Imaginative salads make this a good choice for vegetarians.
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Floka Restaurant
Choose from the catch of the day (which normally includes sea bream, silver snapper, grouper and goatfish) and select how you would like it cooked. Service can be a little slow but it’s a friendly, unpretentious establishment. There’s indoor and outdoor seating.
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Eibal Coffee
For up-market nuts scooped from wooden drawers, call in at Eibal Coffee. Try the smoked nuts: a kilo of pistachio, cashew and almonds costs JD8 but they are irresistibly moreish. Ask for them to be bagged in 250g bags to avoid them going soft in the humidity.
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Al-Mabrouk Beach Touristic Restaurant
This smart new restaurant is a friendly and popular place for a large fish supper, with glass-top tables decorated with shells outside or air-conditioned dining indoors. A local favourite is a pot of Al-Mabrouk fish, mussels, calamari and tomatoes (JD11).
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Al-Fardos Coffee Shop
Al-Fardos Coffee Shop, just off Zahran St, is a traditional coffeehouse where local men sip qahwa, play backgammon and stare open-mouthed at Arabic music videos. It has a pleasant outdoor setting, and foreign women are welcome.
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Al-Tarboosh Restaurant
If a takeaway is your style, call into the Al-Tarboosh Restaurant, one of two neighbouring pastry shops that offer a great range of meat, cheese and vegetable pastries that can be heated up for you in the huge oven.
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Al-Safara'ah Restaurant
One of two good open-air restaurants next to each other by the entry access to the southern end of the public beach. Good-value shwarma meals and grilled chicken dishes make this the best value place in town.
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Formosa Restaurant
For a really excellent Chinese perspective on seafood (and with plenty of meat and vegetable options on the menu too), you couldn’t better this cosy, intimate restaurant.
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Karmel Restaurant
Little more than a collection of open-air tables here next to the Al-Amer Hotel, serving nothing but tea, excellent hummus, fuul and felafel, but it's packed every night.
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China Restaurant
The cook at this good place is Chinese and his restaurant has long maintained a high standard, getting numerous repeat visitors. Prices are reasonable.
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Ös Urfa Restaurant
A Turkish restaurant nearby that's fast getting a good reputation for its tasty eggplant and meat dishes, a range of Turkish mezze and good grills.
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La Dorada Restaurant
There's a relaxed Mediterranean fishing port vibe here, serving up sayadieh, paella, shrimp, Lebanese mezze and a good selection of wines.
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National Restaurant
Under Al-Kholi Hotel, this is a busy place and deservedly so. The meat and chicken dishes come with salads and hummus and are a great deal.
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Syrian Palace Restaurant
As the name implies, this is a good option for Syrian and Jordanian food, including fish dishes. It’s next to the Al-Amer Hotel.
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Hani Ali
On a hot day, stop by Hani Ali, a sugar addict’s paradise of traditional sweets and delicious ice cream.
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Pearls Fast Food
Ideal if you crave a burger with chips at 03:00 and it also does a range of main dishes and breakfast.
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Juice Stands
The Juice Stands on Ar-Razi St are popular places for travellers to hang out at and meet others.
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Al-Mohandes Cafeteria
Very popular with locals for cheap and tasty shwarma and felafel in a clean and lively setting.
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Gelato Uno
On a hot day, stop by Gelato Uno behind the Hertz car-rental office.
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