Yemen Restaurants

 
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ALHAMRA'A RESTAURANT - SANA'A: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

by DAO

This Restaurant has everything! And you don’t have to speak a single word of Arabic to get a good meal. The Alhamra’a Restaurant looks like a McDonald's Restaurant from the outside and like a Kebab shop in the entrance. Don’t let that fool you. This is a large complex that includes the following:• Fast Food (shwarmas, etc.)• Full Service, but fast restaurant• Family orientated restaurant• Lovely garden area with a large fountain• Dinning hall for large events• Prayer area• Clean Toilets and wash area• Hygienic cooking areas/staffAbove all it has great food! And the best part is this:Where the cashier is located is one real example of every food item and drink they do, covered up. They do this every day. You can see what they make, as they make it, and the price is written on each one. Look closer at the 2nd picture. Great food, great prices and the staff could not be more friendly. They...

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Hanida Hotel & Retaurant: Best Restaurant in the Haraz

by iwys

If you are visiting the mountains towns and villages of the Haraz Mountains, Hanida Restaurant is the best place to stop for lunch or dinner. Although its rather shabby exterior would not attract your attention, inside both the decor and food are sumptuous. You will sit on the carpeted floor and be served a variety of traditional Yemeni dishes, such as shurba wasabi and salta, served with flat bread, and, if you are lucky, you might meet Hanida, who, with her daughters, runs the restaurant and, unusually for Yemeni women, is happy to pose for photographs.

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Hameeda: Hameeda in Shibam

by MichaelFalk1969

The otherwise unspectacular village of Shibam (west of Sanaa - not the Shibam in Hadramaut) has a good restaurant with an interesting history: Granny Hameeda started her business by catering for soldiers in the Civil War, then set up a restaurant and subsequently catered for tourists who came in increasing numbers to visit the nearby cities of Kawkaban and Thulla. As I understand it, her business is run entirely by women, quite unusual for Yemen. The food quality is good, the best dish is a traditional honey-covered bread. Easy to find as tour busses and 4WD will probably crowd before the restaurant.

Ching-Sing: Chinese Food in Aden

by MichaelFalk1969

There is only one chinese restaurant in Aden - Ching Sing in the Malla`a quarter, along the main road - the food is really cheap, and rather good (though I`ve eaten better elsewhere). One of the few places that serve alcoholic drinks in Aden.

Local Restaurants: Good for Vegetarians

by janiebaxter

Unexpectedly, Yemen is quite good for vegetarians, compared to most Arabic countries, as although most meals are served with a meat stew or piece of lamb or chicken, there is enough variety in the accompanying dishes. I ate veggie every lunchtime in the local restaurants.There is plenty of hot fresh pitta bread, spicy vegetable stews, tomato dips, fenugreek and flavoured rice. Fresh fruit is usually bananas but in coastal areas you get mangos, papayas and melon. Look out for “bint cake” or daughter cake, which is pastry with honey. They prefer you to refuse the meat if you are not going to eat it, rather than waste it.

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Local Restaurants: Food in Yemen

by janiebaxter

We ate lunch in the local "Tourist" restaurants each day. The name is actually misleading as there were usually more local people than tourists eating in them as lunch is the main meal of the day in Yemen.Tourists are served at the tables while the locals, all men, eat sitting on the floor in a separate area. It looked great fun in that section with groups of men sharing big plates of food, with their Kalashnikovs placed on the floor beside them.Our tables were mostly covered in newspaper or disposable plastic cloths and we usually had plastic forks. They were generally very clean and the staff would rush to set up the tables for us, cleaning them and bringing the bread very quickly.The local bread is corn bread but the one we saw most of in restaurants was the feshly baked pitta bread. Lunch was normally chicken (sometimes fish), bread, flavoured rice, vegetable stews and spicy tomato...

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Tourist Hotels: Food in Yemen

by janiebaxter

I stayed in good quality hotels, when possible, where we ate dinner most nights. Lunch was eaten at the local "Tourist" restaurants.Certainly the the 4 and 5 star hotels in Yemen can produce a buffet at dinner time equal to many good hotels in Europe, and some even better. The best were the Movenpick in Sana'a and the Sofitel in Taiz. They both served a large selection of International dishes - pasta, curries, fish and meat dishes, soups, pates, plenty of locally grown fruit and vegetables and some very good desserts!The medium class hotels did not do so well with the food. The worst of these were the Golden Tulip in Aden and the Taj Awsan in Hodeidah. Watery soup that tasted like dishwater was a speciality of the house in both these places, along with tinned vegetables. Overcooked frozen fish at the Taj Awsan (and it's close to the fish market!).

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Bab Al Yemen: Local slophouse

by travelinxs

Just outside Bab Al Yemen on the right is a reasonable restaurant for the budget minded. Example of prices;1/2 chicken + salad + coke = 350 R (rials) / $1.75 / UK0.90p ("dejaj wa salada wa coke")They also have mixed vegetables at times ("moushaka") and "la'ham" which is just meat, often lamb in an unappertising stew which I didnt like much. Outside on a small terrace is a pleasant enough place to chill with a tea ("chai") and watch the traffic! 10R / $0.05c / UK0.03p

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Baskin Robbins 31: Sweet tooth?

by dutchwindmill

31 flavours they don't offer, but what they have is as good as you'd expect.It's a growing chain, with outlets in Sana'a Trade Center (Al-Jazair / Algiers Street), a small one in between Pizza Hut and KFC, a counter in a coffee shop at Yemen Mall; in Aden at the "Stalin Allee". The latest shop is at Hadda (on the left hand side between 60 Metre Road?Sateen and Medina Zakania/Beirut Street). It is also the most conveniently located, as there is a dentist's practice on the floor above it (see picture). Butter pecan shake.

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HAMEDDA TOURISISM HOTEL & RESTAURANT: A MOUNTAIN OF A MEAL - SHIBAM

by DAO

Want a FULL SIZED lunch? The main meal in Yemen is at lunchtime and these folks really prove it! It is upstairs in the annex of the Hamedda Tourism Hotel. You cannot miss the chef as he cooks just inside the front door to the hotel! (Please see the pictures). Everything from meat to vegetables and several kinds of bread are laid out on a carpet for you and you eat as a group. Just ask for a spoon if you do not feel comfortable eating with your hands. Remember to order a soft drink before they bring the food as the staff leave you in peace once all your food has arrived. Please be aware that your driver and/or tour guide may wish to pray before eating, so wait until you see people gathering around the food before you start. Women eat separately from men in another room. Prices are amazingly economical for the amounts you get. You will see all the tour guides vehicles outside in the middle...

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Q:  Hi, i want to travel to hodeidah and then to Mukalla.Can I get flight from hod to Mukalla and Mukalla to saana? 

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A: The only domestic carriers are Yemenia and Felix. There are no direct connections from Hodeidah to Mukhalla. You'd have to go via San'a. Of note, San'a airport has closed... 

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