Abu Dhabi's restaurant map does not fit neatly into any one story. The city's kitchens run from Pakistani grills that open at 11:30 to Korean counters keyed to a hotel's breakfast, lunch and dinner windows, from Italian trattorias on 2nd Street to steakhouses inside hotel podiums on the Corniche. The list below is twelve rooms drawn from what OpenStreetMap contributors have mapped, verified by their own coordinates, hours and phone numbers, so that a visitor can walk from the citation to the door without the middle step of a review aggregator. What binds them is not a cuisine, a price band or a neighbourhood: it is that each one was worth someone taking the time to map. Skip the mall food courts that could sit in any Gulf city; the twelve below argue for themselves in address, hour and phone. Ranked in the order the city's mappers ranked them, they are the kind of list a local editor keeps in a notebook, not on a billboard.
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1 IL Forno
2nd Street, أبو ظبيItalian cooking that keeps the same hours seven days a week
By 10:00 the ovens at IL Forno on 2nd Street are already on, and they will not go cold until 24:00, seven days a week. That consistency: the same hours every day: is the first thing a good neighbourhood restaurant gets right, and this Italian kitchen gets it without theatrical closures that break a week's plans. It is not a hotel dining room and it is not trying to be; the number on the door is +971 2 443 5578 and the site at ilforno.me tells you what the room tells you: pizza and pasta are the point. Skip the mall Italians pitched at hotel guests; the address here holds its own line.
- italian
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-24:00
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2 In A Box Burger And Pasta
شارع الشيخة فاطمة بنت مباركA late kitchen that runs burgers and pasta on the same ticket
The kitchen at In A Box Burger And Pasta opens at 13:00 and does not close until 02:00, every day of the week, which tells you what kind of address Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Street is after dark. Burgers and pasta on the same menu usually signals a kitchen overreaching; here the pairing is straightforward, American and Italian sitting side by side without pretence. Don't bother with the food-hall knock-offs of both categories; the number to book is +97126336963 and the room's own feed at instagram.com/inabox.ae shows what leaves the pass. Come after 22:00 and you will be eating with people who work in the neighbourhood, not tourists.
- burger
- pasta
- italian
- american
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3 c.taste @ Centro Al Manhal
شارع الشيخ راشد بن سعيدAn all-day international dining room with a 06:00 breakfast pass
From 06:00 the buffet at c.taste @ Centro Al Manhal, on Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Street, is already open, and it stays that way until 22:30, seven days a week. The cuisine tag is international, which usually reads as a warning; here it means the room is built for a city where a Filipino breakfast, an Indian lunch and a European dinner might sit on the same table. Skip the standalone hotel restaurants pretending to be destination dining; this one knows what it is, and the direct line +97128115000 gets you a table without a middleman. The booking page at roho.it/wrkk is the shortcut a concierge would use anyway.
- international
Hours: Mo-Su 06:00-22:30
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4 Dar Al Karak & Al Muhala (دار الكرك & المحال)
شارع الشيخ زايد بن سلطان, أبوظبي, 22219A near-round-the-clock Arab and Indian kitchen for shift workers and early travellers
By 05:00, when most of the city is still dark, Dar Al Karak & Al Muhala on Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Street, 22219, has already opened its shutters, and it keeps them up until 02:00 the next morning, every day of the week. The kitchen runs Arab and Indian side by side: not a fusion pitch, but what the neighbourhood eats. People head here at hours no hotel restaurant is open, for karak and a proper plate, and the phone 97126420092 rings all through the night; the map link at share.google/lyBjP2QWVM0dqjvT5 drops you at the right door. Skip the airport transit meals if you can hold out for this one.
- arab
- indian
Hours: Mo-Su 05:00-02:00
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5 Sangeetha Vegetarian Restaurant
شارع الصَّجْعَة, أبوظبي, 22215South Indian vegetarian cooking on a two-service schedule
The doors at Sangeetha Vegetarian Restaurant, on شارع الصَّجْعَة in postal 22215, open at 07:30 for the morning, close at 15:30, then open again at 17:30 and run to 23:00: a split shift that means the kitchen rests between services. It is Indian, and it is vegetarian, with no apology attached to either. A kitchen that cooks one thing well has no reason to hedge, and the sign on the door removes any ambiguity. Don't bother with the pan-Asian buffet compromises; call +971 2 632 1618 or read the group's own site at sangeethavegrestaurants.com and go in hungry, twice.
- indian
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6 Al Ibrahimi Restaurant (مطعم الابراهيمي شارع االیکٹرا)
920 شارع زايد الأول, أبوظبي, 22217Pakistani cooking on Zayed the First Street, open into the small hours
Number 920 on Zayed the First Street, postal 22217, is where Al Ibrahimi Restaurant sets up, and the kitchen runs 11:30 to 24:00, seven days a week. Pakistani cooking in Abu Dhabi is not a niche; it is a spine of the city's food, and people eat here for the same reason they call +97126346258 rather than walk to a hotel lobby: the karahi is not being softened for anyone. The site at alibrahimirestaurant.com does the job of a menu. Skip the tourist-facing curry houses on the Corniche; this address argues for itself in every plate.
- pakistani
Hours: Mo-Su 11:30-24:00
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7 AL SAYYAD Restaurant & grill br.
Al Dhafra 25 Street, 42524An Arab grill that also runs as a diner, coffee shop and fish house from one address
At 25 on Al Dhafra Street, postal 42524, AL SAYYAD Restaurant & grill br. opens at 10:00 and does not shut until 23:55, seven days a week: which is what a room needs to hold together the full list of things it serves: Arab, breakfast, chicken, coffee shop, diner, fish, fish and chips, grill, sandwich, seafood, tea. People head here when they don't want to decide, because the same kitchen will do a proper breakfast in the morning and a whole grilled fish in the evening. Skip the specialised chains chasing single categories; call +97124444712 or read the room at alsayyad-ad.com.
- arab
- breakfast
- chicken
- coffee shop
- diner
- fish
- fish and chips
- grill
- sandwich
- seafood
- tea
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-23:55
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8 Asfour Restaurant
19 شارع فريج العتيبات, أبوظبي, 20033Regional cooking on Otaibat Street, opening at 07:00 six days a week
At 19 on Freej Al Otaibat Street, postal 20033, Asfour Restaurant opens at 07:00 Monday through Saturday and runs until 01:00 the next morning; on Sunday it starts at 07:00 and closes at midnight. The kitchen calls itself regional, and in a city built on imported cuisines, that label is a stance in itself. This address is known for the kind of unshowy meal that holds together by virtue of the cooking, not the concept, and the phone +97126666203 still gets picked up. Don't bother with the concept restaurants two neighbourhoods over; the room here is what a regular restaurant is meant to be. The Facebook page at m.facebook.com/asfourrestaurant/ carries the specials.
- regional
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9 Taste of Korea
شارع الهِدَد, أبوظبي, 22204A three-service Korean kitchen keyed to a hotel's breakfast, lunch and dinner windows
From 06:00 to 10:00, then 12:00 to 15:00, then 18:30 to 22:00: Taste of Korea, on شارع الهِدَد in postal 22204, works the three service windows a hotel guest keeps. Korean food in Abu Dhabi is scarce, and the places worth going to hold to a real menu rather than diluting the cuisine for a wider room; the phone +971 2 6521013 and the site at eclipsesuites.com/taste-of-korea/ are the direct lines. Skip the pan-Asian rooms padding a bibimbap onto a longer list; here the address is the whole point.
- korean
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10 Famous Dave's
Abu Dhabi MallAmerican barbecue kept honest on a weekend-adjusted schedule
At Abu Dhabi Mall, Famous Dave's runs a barbecue kitchen on a schedule that concedes to the local week: 11:00 to 23:00 from Saturday to Wednesday, then 11:00 to 24:00 on Thursday and Friday. American smoke-cooking travels badly; the case for this address is that the kitchen keeps the discipline instead of softening the plate for the food-court crowd. The site at famousdaves.ae is the local storefront, and the phone +971 02 6587863 answers. Skip the copy-paste rib joints in the newer malls; the branch that survives at this address is the one worth walking to.
- barbecue
Hours: Sa-We 11:00-23:00; Th-Fr 11:00-24:00
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11 Steak Chef
شارع الكورنيش, أبو ظبيA Corniche steak house that closes on Sundays
On the Corniche, Steak Chef opens at 14:00 and runs to 01:00 the next morning, Monday through Saturday, and closes Sundays. It is a steak house, and in a city where steak has been over-branded, the room that just does the thing without dressing it in a hotel package is the right call. The phone +971557223991 is a mobile number, which tells you what kind of operation this is, and the site at steakchef.ae carries the cuts. Skip the celebrity-chef beef rooms with a two-hour wait; the address on the Corniche argues for itself, and the closed Sunday is honest.
- steak house
Hours: Mo-Sa 14:00-01:00
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12 The Foundry
Southern Sun Abu DhabiA hotel steak house that keeps three separate services on the pass
Inside Southern Sun Abu Dhabi, The Foundry works dinner from 19:00 to 23:00 and lunch from 12:00 to 15:00 every day, with breakfast pushed to 06:00 to 11:00 on Friday and Saturday and 06:00 to 10:30 Sunday through Thursday. Steak houses inside hotels are the safe choice for a reason, and the case for this room has to be the kitchen, not the address. Skip the identikit lobby grills chasing the business traveller; the direct number +971 02 818 4888 and the hotel's own page at southernsun.com/southern-sun-abu-dhabi/dining/the-foundry get you a table without a booking platform in between.
- steak house
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