Abu Dhabi for foodies

Best restaurants

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.