Surprisingly, the best restaurants in Kuwait offer a wide variety of ethnic foods. In fact, you can find just about any type of cuisine you’re looking for. From American, Chinese, Japanese to Persian, breakfast, lunch or dinner, you are never far from a home cooked meal when dining in Kuwait.
One of the best restaurants in Kuwait is the ‘Sunny Side Up’, a popular breakfast restaurant that opened in November 2011. As you can probably guess from the name, the menu features a wide variety of egg dishes.
Most of the menu selections are American and a favorite among regulars is the Turkey Club Sandwich, a true Dagwood sandwich stacked with thinly sliced turkey, hard-boiled eggs, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mustard. A favorite breakfast item is the big stack of pancakes served with real maple syrup. Sunny Side Up is located in the Al Saqaran complex.
Another popular breakfast restaurant is the Living Room Lounge, located in the Marina Mall. The menu here is simple: choose an American breakfast, Spanish omelette, Arabian breakfast, or French toast. The Living Room Lounge is an elegant and exclusive restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating.
And one of the best restaurants in Kuwait for breakfast lovers is “Ryoog”, which means breakfast in Arabic. Again, they have a very simple menu that gives you a choice of an American breakfast, a Lebanese breakfast, waffles, or sandwiches. Another fancy restaurant you’ll find is the Ryoog at Block 8, Street 80.
If Chinese food is your favorite, you’ll find more than a dozen Chinese restaurants in Kuwait serving everything from Szechuan to Hunan to Cantonese to Anhui.
Now, let’s take a look at the best restaurants in Kuwait that have lunch and dinner menus. Believe it or not, if you’re looking for American food, you can get your favorite burger and fries at TGI Fridays. They even have their world famous onion strings.
If you are looking for delicious Japanese food, you must visit PF Changs, Maki, Wasabi or Sakura. And if you are looking for Persian delicacies, you must visit Babak where you will find traditional recipes like Hummus, Kebab and Gheymeh.
For Italian food, you will not find anything better than the pizza, lasagna, spaghetti and ravioli that they cook every day and Nino, an Italian restaurant in Kuwait. Be sure to try the mushroom risotto or the Nino pasta while you’re there.
If you are visiting Kuwait, you probably want to try traditional Kuwaiti food and the best place in town is Freej Sowaileh restaurant. Freej Sowaileh serves a delicious chicken and rice dish called ‘machboos’ and is Kuwaiti cuisine at its finest.
No meal is complete without dessert and two of the best restaurants in Kuwait are dessert restaurants. Pinkberry serves the best frozen yogurt in the world and Choowy Goowy has freshly baked cookies that melt in your mouth.