Restaurants in Damascus   The Old City The Bazaars The Mosque The Museum Excursions Restaurants By Night The Syrian capital has many restaurants giving the visitor a wide selection to choose from. Except restaurants in the luxury hotels, we must admit that with regard to oriental specialities, the difference is insignificant between the standard of cooking of popular restaurants and that of their more elegant competitors of the modern city center or of residential quarters. It is very often a matter of decoration and equipment which directs the choice of the customers. One must also take into account the time of the year. For example, when the weather is hot, outdoor restaurants of the Barada valley, upstream of Damascus, in particular at Dummar will be very nice, as well as the costlier ones at Zabadani and Bloudan on the slopes of the Anti-Lebanon. In addition to restaurants in the main hotels, like the Meridien and its Les Annees Polles, the revolving panoramic restaurant of the Cham Palace Hotel or its Chinese restaurant, or the restaurants of the Damascus Sheraton, especially the Ishbilia, one of the finest oriental restaurants in the Middle East, we recommend also going to the city center to taste the Shawarma.Visit the restaurants in the Abu-Rummaneh residential area built in the fifties replacing orchards and vegetable gardens and which became with time the preferred quarter of the rich Damascene bourgeoisie and embassies. The high society has recently found even more privileged places in Mazzeh and Maiki areas, but some embassies have remained in Abu-Rummaneh, where are some good restaurants.      Previous - Next
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