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Al-Boom
This small restaurant, with large windows overlooking the harbour, is a good place to get a feel of Muscat's age-old relationship with the sea. It is in an ideal location for breakfast (from to ) after visiting the Fish Market opposite.
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Al-Bulbul Restaurant & Coffeeshop
Just across the road from Ruwi bus station, this 'Arab & Turkish' street-side café is a good place for a quick shwarma before catching the bus.
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Al-Daleh Restaurant
Nervous Omani hospitality students practice their culinary and waiting skills at this exceptionally good-value restaurant. Menus comprise mostly top-notch international dishes. Ring to book a table as it gets busy.
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Al-Kiran Terrace
For Muscat's best Friday brunch, in gorgeous surroundings and with a bar licence after , this is more of a day out than just an excellent dining experience. Walk off that extra slither of smoked salmon under the coconut palms, or snooze away the rest of the afternoon on the beach lounge chairs - if the management sees sense and allows its customers out after lunch! The restaurant is closed until early 2008 due to hotel renovation.
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Automatic Restaurant
There is nothing automatic about the Lebanese fare from this chain of Lebanese restaurants: they serve uniformly good-quality food with friendly service in cheap and cheerful surroundings. Whatever you order, a dish of leaves (lettuce, radish and mint) is provided free and makes a good garnish for the kebabs, felafel and hummus staples.
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Bin Atique
This is one of the few places in town to serve a variety of local Omani dishes. As the restaurant caters mainly for homesick Omani traders, you'll be seated on an old carpet in a private room. If you can put up with the unglamorous surroundings, however, the food is generally good quality and authentic. Try harees, a glutenous, Omani dish often mixed with chicken.
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D'Arcy's Kitchen
Next to the Omani Heritage Gallery, this friendly and award-winning establishment serves Western favourites at reasonable prices and is open when most other cafés are taking a siesta. An English breakfast will set you up well for a 'constitutional' along the nearby beach.
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Fastfood 'n' Juice Centre
Left of the entrance to the Mutrah Souq, with tables on the pavement, this thoroughly typical, local-style restaurant is an ideal place to people-watch over a shwarma and a 'chi lipton' (tea-bag tea with sweet condensed milk).
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Khargeen Café
With a choice of open-air, majlis -style dining or a cosy, indoor coffee-and-a-chat, this café-cum-coffeehouse has spilt into a courtyard of lighted trees to make a wonderfully relaxed, atmospheric and Arabian experience. With hubbly-bubblies croaking, fountains splashing, kebabs sizzling and people propped on a variety of cushions and throws, this could almost be part of a Bedouin caravan. Try the hibiscus or cacao drinks or the avocado milkshake.
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Meknes Restaurant
If Bin Atique didn't appeal, try nearby and newly opened Meknes for a more comfortable Arabian ambience. Serving excellent Moroccan dishes in a tiled interior with brocade armchairs, this is a good place to sample tajine (lamb stew) with potatoes and green olives and mint tea poured with relish from silver kettles.
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Mumtaz Mahal
The Mumtaz Mahal is more than just the best Indian restaurant in town, it is part of the landscape of Muscat. Perched on a hill overlooking Qurm Nature Reserve, and with an intimate atmosphere created by live sitar performances, traditional seating at low tables, and lantern-light, it is little surprise that this restaurant, specialising in Northern Indian Mughlai cuisine, is a local legend. Try the snake coffee, which the head waiter performs by setting fire to an orange peel.
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Muscat Light Restaurant and Coffeeshop
Have an egg-roll up in view of Fort Al-Mirani in this corner-street café, ideal as a rest-stop on a walking tour of Muscat.
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Restaurant
Repeated winner of awards for the best ambient dining in Muscat, this restaurant, with Arabian chandeliers and modern open kitchens, serves delicate international fare but includes melt-in-the-mouth hamour (a succulent local white fish), and some truly wonderful regional dishes such as harira (a thick soup with beef, lentils and chickpeas spiked with coriander). The French pastry chef makes wicked confections, including handmade chocolates.
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Tche Café
This stylish and modern venue, near to Starbucks, has one of the few seafront views in Muscat. It is on the pricy side but the locally caught fish on the menu will probably tempt you to savour the ocean for longer than the intended iced latte.
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