Must-see restaurants in Petra

The Basin serves a wide spread of international dishes, including a healthy selection of salads, fresh falafel and barbecued spicy sausage. Lots of…

Serving a top-notch international buffet in an elegant banquet hall, this fine-dining restaurant offers a quality of dishes that matches the general…

Wadi Musa's best restaurant specialises in Jordanian food and serves up to 500 people in one lunch sitting. There is no menu – lunch and dinner are buffet…

This main-street favourite offers tasty grills and Jordanian fare, such as mensaf (Bedouin dish of lamb on a bed of rice). The outdoor terrace, bedecked…

Cavernous and friendly, this restaurant serves local Bedouin specialities, including mensaf (Bedouin dish of lamb on a bed of rice) and makloubeh (chicken…

With simple Jordanian dishes and one or two international favourites, this casual restaurant occupies a lovely spot under blue-flowering jacaranda trees …

A sumptuous buffet of lentil soup, 18 kinds of salad and mezze, eight hot dishes and a pasta station make this dedicated restaurant, on the approach into…

With a coffee shop atmosphere, this new restaurant in the heart of Wadi Musa looks set to become a travellers' meeting place with tables outside and a…

This popular restaurant offers simple fare of tasty mixed grills, salad and mezze and has an outdoor terrace that is particularly popular at lunchtime…

This pleasant coffeeshop with its floral window boxes is right on the roundabout at the centre of town and is a pleasant place to sit with a Turkish…

Located just off the Shaheed roundabout, this tiny cafe, decorated with potted plants, does a thriving trade in boxed meals of 'shawarma, chips and picks …

Selling rotisserie-style barbecued chicken and kebabs, this popular restaurant on the one-way loop round the centre of Wadi Musa (diagonally opposite…

After a hot day’s hiking in Petra, it’s hard to resist a Swiss ice cream from the hotel's foyer cafe. The ice creams are also dispatched through the…

Good for putting together a picnic, the Sanabel Bakery sells a delicious range of Arab sweets.

This handy shop near the entrance to Petra sells all the necessary ingredients of a picnic for a day's walking in the Ancient City, including fruit and…