Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Kuwait City from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Kuwait City
These restaurant picks show the city’s main dining patterns, from hotel-led rooms to neighbourhood kitchens and more contemporary concepts.
Bukhara Restaurant is a rooftop North Indian fine dining room in The St. Regis Kuwait. It has a curated wine program with an extensive wine list. Craft cocktails and zero-proof drinks are poured, service is a la carte, and the rooftop looks onto the Kuwait City skyline.
Cantina in Shuwaikh Industrial serves Mediterranean cooking with an Italian focus in a warm room. Chef Basmah Marouf’s halal-friendly restaurant offers pizza, whipped ricotta, and Caesar salad alongside coffee and desserts. It holds World's 50 Best MENA's Best Restaurants #18 (2026).
Matbakhi in West Abu Fatira serves Palestinian home-style dishes that Chef Sawsan cooks when ordered. Freshness and presentation shape the cooking. Breakfast dishes sit alongside mezze, pastries filled with meat, and food grilled over charcoal. It holds World's 50 Best MENA's Best Restaurants #50 (2026).
These picks show plant-led dining, experimental small plates, and a dessert-focused bar in distinct parts of the city.
OVO Restaurant in Bneid al-Gar serves plant-based dishes for vegan and vegetarian diners, alongside options for flexitarians. Italian, Levantine, Indian, and Californian influences shape its a la carte cooking. The interior has a minimal design, and diners can also sit in the garden.
Cure in Shuwaikh Industrial serves Modern Asian Tapas as both small plates and a la carte. The drinks include craft cocktails. An architect designed the interiors, and the restaurant’s reputation comes from repeat custom and word of mouth.
Al Soor in Al Mirqab serves desserts and afternoon tea in a Four Seasons lobby lounge. Known as La Chocolaterie de Kuwait, the lounge offers chocolate pralines made by hand alongside mocktails.
Grand Hyatt Kuwait in Zahra holds a Star Wine List award from 2026. Bukhara Restaurant at The St. Regis Kuwait has a curated wine program and an extensive wine list, alongside craft cocktails and zero-proof drinks.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants among the 21 restaurants in our Kuwait City guide. Michelin recognition for The St. Regis Kuwait and Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait at Burj Alshaya includes hotel Keys.
Bukhara Restaurant at The St. Regis Kuwait and Ava at Waldorf Astoria Kuwait are hotel restaurants in our guide. Bukhara Restaurant serves North Indian tandoori specialties from a traditional clay oven. Ava in Al Farwaniya serves Mediterranean cooking influenced by the French Riviera and Southern Italy.
Grand Hyatt Kuwait has a Star Wine List award, and Bukhara Restaurant has a curated wine program. Grand Hyatt Kuwait’s recognition dates to 2026; Bukhara Restaurant’s drinks include an extensive wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kuwait City.
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Opened in November 2023 in Kuwait City's Shuwaikh Industrial district, Cantina brings Mediterranean cooking with an Italian focus to a dining scene hungry for it. The project comes from chef Basmah Marouf, whose tenure as executive chef at Madison Heig established her credentials at the sharper end of the city's restaurant circuit. The result is a room that reads as warm and considered rather than showy.
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Open since spring 2024, Matbakhi has established itself as a serious dining address inside The Avenues, Kuwait's largest mall. The menu centers on Palestinian and Levantine cooking, moving from traditional breakfast dishes through charcoal grills, mezze, and meat-filled pastries. It draws a devoted local following that has little to do with the surrounding retail.
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Al Shamam Restaurant sits within Kuwait City's broader tradition of ingredient-led Arabic dining, where the sourcing of spices, grains, and proteins from Gulf and Levantine producers carries as much weight as technique. The restaurant's name, meaning 'muskmelon' in Arabic, signals an orientation toward the seasonal and the locally specific that sets a particular expectation before a single dish arrives.
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Al-Sawabar sits within Kuwait City's evolving dining scene, where traditional Gulf hospitality rituals shape the pace and character of a meal as much as the food itself. The restaurant occupies a city where communal eating culture runs deep, placing it in a category defined by shared plates, deliberate pacing, and the social architecture of the table.
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Ava sits in Kuwait City’s expanding premium dining circuit, where imported produce, regional supply chains, and mall-adjacent dining rooms shape how restaurants compete. With no public awards, chef, or menu format attached, it is better read through the city’s broader appetite for polished, ingredient-led meals than through trophy signals.
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Bukhara Restaurant sits in Kuwait City’s dense central dining circuit, where regional hotel dining, long-running South Asian kitchens, and Gulf family restaurants compete for the same evening tables. The useful way to read it is through sourcing: in Kuwait, spice, rice, dairy, and meat choices are shaped by import networks as much as by kitchen technique.
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Cure occupies an industrial address in Shuwaikh, placing it among Kuwait City's growing cluster of destination restaurants that operate outside the conventional hospitality corridors. With sparse publicly available data, the venue has built its reputation through word-of-mouth and repeat custom rather than awards infrastructure — a posture that positions it as a counter-point to the city's more visible dining scene.
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OVO Restaurant occupies a notable position in Kuwait City's evolving dining scene, where a new generation of concept-led spaces is reshaping what the city's restaurants can be. The kitchen draws on broader Gulf culinary traditions while integrating contemporary technique. For visitors working through the city's better tables, OVO is a consistent reference point in local dining conversations.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kuwait City.
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Scoring 90.5 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking, Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait at Burj Alshaya brings together 284 rooms across 21 floors, a rooftop dining programme spanning four culinary concepts, and a spa complex with a Moroccan hammam — all on Al-Soor Street, within walking distance of Al Shaheed Park. Room rates start from $411 per night, with suite upgrades running across 67 configurations.
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On Fahd Al Salem Street in Kuwait City's commercial centre, The St. Regis Kuwait occupies the upper tier of the capital's luxury hotel market with 135 rooms priced from $1,086 per night. Arab architectural references — mashrabiya-inspired screens, patterned marble floors, locally crafted brass and leather — run throughout a property that balances international brand standards with deliberate regional character. The dining portfolio spans Italian, regional cuisines, and the brand's signature Bloody Mary bar program.
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Among Kuwait City's beachfront hotel options, Jumeirah Messilah Beach sits in a category of its own: a 405-room resort on Al Ta'awun Street that has earned recognition as a Regional Winner for Luxury Family Resort and Continent Winner for Luxury Beach Resort. Designed by New York firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it pairs Gulf-facing private beach access with a 37,000-square-foot spa and a distinctly Arabian design identity.
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A Forbes 5-Star property carrying 91 points on the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels index, the Waldorf Astoria Kuwait sets Old World luxury codes against Kuwait City's appetite for scale and ceremony. Ikaros Club suite access, polished service, and a Hilton Worldwide operational standard place it at the upper tier of the city's international hotel market.
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Arabella Beach Hotel Kuwait, Vignette Collection by IHG holds dual recognition as both a Regional Luxury Business Hotel winner and Kuwait's Country Winner for Luxury Beach Hotel — a combination that places it in a distinct tier among Kuwait City's coastal properties. Positioned within the Arabella Complex along Coast Line A, it bridges Gulf-facing leisure and corporate infrastructure in a market where few properties do both credibly.
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Positioned above the 360 Mall complex on Kuwait City's 6th Ring Road, Grand Hyatt Kuwait trades in scale and light: soaring atriums, curated marble interiors, and a wine programme recognised by Star Wine List in 2026. The property sits in Kuwait's upper tier of international full-service hotels, alongside peers such as the Four Seasons and Waldorf Astoria, and draws both business travellers and Gulf leisure guests.
Kuwait City
Selected entries from the current guide for Kuwait City.
Kuwait City, Kuwait
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kuwait City.
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