Khartoum Restaurants

Hamada Fried Chicken, located on Siteen Street near Omak in Manshia, looks from the outside like most any fast food fried chicken places in Cairo or even Baltimore. But it is more. It is a clean and pleasant place to grab lunch or to get dinner to go and it has a good variety of menu items.
Of course, there is the standard fried chicken " box" whith pieces of fried chicken, a roll, and some cole slaw. But there is also a great chicken wrap which you can get as spicy as you want. It is the " Zinger"

There are salads, rice bowls, and also freshly made tamaaya (falafel). The managment and staff are friendly and helpful.

All in all a nice place for a quick bite - i work nearby and we send someone to get the Zingers to take away. Also good for packed lunches if you are going on a road trip.

Favorite Dish: The Zinger chicken wrap, for sure!

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This Egyptian run restaurant is classier than the others I've eaten in in Khartoum. The restaurant is upstairs and the decor is very nice- dark wood, ornaments in alcoves, tables wood with banguettes or chairs. The walls are long slivers of unpolished marble.
The menu is good , but service was a bit slow as everything seemed to be freshly cooked.
The staff were polite and obliging- bringing husband a second cup of Turlish coffee as the one he was first given had sugar added.
The food was excellent though the meat portions were not as large as elsewhere.

My only complaint was the brownies with ice cream which had a strong flavour of 'mistic'- fragrant gum, but others might like it.
We paid 234 SDG for 7 people, this included 7 main courses, 2 brownis with ice cream , 2 Turkish coffees and 7 juices , plus 4 small bottles of water, inclusive of 15% tax

Favorite Dish: I had grilled chicken breasts with mushroom sauce and saute vegetables and rice.Three of us had beef or chicken frajitas which were very tasty.
Husband had grilled fish fillet with saute vegetables and mashed potato.
There was a good variety of soft drinks. Our table had lemon juice, kiwi juice, apple juice, fruit tangle [n amixture of different fruits]. I had a Lifesaver- pineapple, orange and pomegranate which was absolutely delicious.
Everything was so good, that I'd definitely recommend it, and go there again

This outlet serves frozen fruit yoghurt with fresh fruit and nut toppings.The frozen yoghurt contains 1/3 dairy fat compared to normal ice cream and uses only fruit sugar.price from 8-17 SDG
Also on the menu are smoothies , hot and iced coffee 5-8 SDG, and hot or iced herbal teas @ 3-7 SDG.
In addition there are a variety of sandwiches:
Beef Chinese @ 4SDg or 8SDG
Chicken Fahitta at 5 or 10 SDG
Beef Fahitta @ 4 or 8 SDG
Chicken Crispy @5 or 10 SDG
Chicken Mexico @5 and 10 SDG
Club @5 and 10 SDG
Chicken Special @5 and 10 SDG]
Beef Burger 5SDG
Double Cheese Burger 8SDG
Chicken Burger 7 SDG
French Fries 4 SDG Big
3 SDG small

Favorite Dish: Frozen yoghurt without topping, It is creamy yet healthy, especially for a diabetic..

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The coffee shop at the Rotana Hotel was a pleasant place for a ladies' get together. It was cool and nice and the service was good. The view from the window was over gardens, but aircraft on approach to the airport every so often was a bit off-putting as they were very low.
We had cappucino with a very mouthmelting chocolate cookie. Then we ordered a hot and a cold mezze between us. Luckily none of us was peckish as the portions were small. I thought the tabbouleh could have had more tomatoes and the parsley could have been chopped finer, and there was no bulgar wheat added. But otherwise the mezze was good.

I have also attended a dinner at the AL Nuba restaurant. The decor is nice, the tables and settings very nice The drinks service was good,but otherwise it was self-service buffet. This changes every day,
Rotana AlsSalam ‘s Al Nuba Restaurant has a different menu every day.
Sunday 19.00 -23.00 is Arabian and Sudanese.
Monday 19.00-23.00 is Italian cuisine
Tuesday 19.00-23.00 is Mexican
Wednesday 19.00-23.00 is Seafood night
Thursday 19.00-23.00 is Far East dishes. These are delicious.
Friday 12.00-17.00 is Family Brunch with International and Arab delicacies
Saturday 19.00-23.00 is International Night with an array of cuisine from around the world.

!5% VAT and 5% service charge are additional.

Favorite Dish: the samousa with meat filling was really juicy, and the kibbeh was good too.

We decided to try this new Italian Restaurant. There were a lot of cars parked outside, including UN one, which looked a good sign.
The decor was a bit dark for my liking - dark brown and dark green. We were welcome in a friendly way and shown to a table. There was no special smoking/non smoking sections which was a minus point.
Then we sat for 40 minutes waiting to be served. More folk arrived, but the waiter seemed to be unable to multitask. He'd take an order and disappear till it was ready, and serve it. Then would go to another table and repeat the process. Then go and get the bill for the first table, and sort that out.
The children were tired and hungry, as were we all. Eventually he came and we gave him our order. It seemed that everything we ordered was off, so opted for two family size pizzas, quoted at 30 SP. He said no, that price was wrong it should be 40Sp. My daughter demanded to speak to the manager, but even after another 15 minutes, neither the waiter nor manager appeared.
One daughter then went and ordered two takeaways at the counter, and the rest of us drove home. By the time the other went to collect her sister the pizzas were ready. They were acceptable, and perhaps we'd have enjoyed them if we'd been in a better mood.
There was no way we would have paid 15% service charge and 2% tax on top of the basic price for that kind of service.
If we had known they were understaffed and couldn't cope with the demand, we would have gone elsewhere from the beginning. I doubt this place will stay open long unless it gets its act together.

Favorite Dish: As all we managed to get was margherita pizza which had a thin crust base, an acceptable sauce and cheese topping with some herbs sprinkled over it, that was all we saw . It was Ok, but I wouldn't eat there again because of the poor service.

Since then my daughter has been back many times and says it is nice. Three waiters were serving, and she said the food was very good.

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I was invited to dinner at The Nubian Restaurant at the Rotana Salam Hotel. It was a Thursday which meant the food was from the Far eastern menu.
The restaurant itself was spacious and modern. Shortly after we sat down, a bottle of water was brought to the table, and then the waiter offered to chose a beverage from a selection of fruit drinks or cans of soft drinks.
We went to the buffet bar and filled our plates from the wide selection of salads , and there was a tempura stand too .Items selected:
Prawn crackers
Baba ganoug hummous taboulah sweet carrot salad green bean ssalad, chaicken salad prawn salad egg noodles salad broccoli and squid salad. There were also different dressings available : yoghurt and dill Caesar dressing cocktail dressing.

After satisfying ourselves with a feast of colour and taste, we then moved on to select from the main dishes;
jasmine rice, steamed rice or vegetable rice
Chicken cashew , chicken satay, veal piccata, chow mien, fried hammour, Indian-style cauliflower and more.
I couldn’t fault anything.

We then retired to a lounge for coffee which cost 10 SDG .

friendly Italian restaurant with great pizza and pasta : The ice cream is really good . Only there did I have the true Italian cappuccino and coffee.
The place is a small clean villa with lovely trees and yellow umbrellas, The service is good and fast

Favorite Dish: Vegetable pizza, because in it I have the pizza with all the available vegetables in the market, (eggplant zucchini, belly peppers onions and if I want I can have mushrooms added) it is delicious I also had a wonderful vanilla and chocolate ice cream

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This restaurant is fine for quick snacks.
We ordered Cheesy chicken past, Caesar Salat, Smoked salmon bagel, \nd cheese garlic bread.
We then had coca cola and one iced cappuccino Total came to £sud. 63

Favorite Dish: The smoked salmon bagel was adequate and the bagel was spread with mayonnaise , and had lettuce leaves with the smoked salmon, which was not sliced as fine as I would have expected, but was tasty.