Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Muscat from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Muscat
These restaurants cover North Indian fine dining, modern Chinese, and an international and Omani buffet. Bukhara serves a la carte and a set menu, Ba Ban serves a tasting menu, and Al Khiran Kitchen runs a buffet with themed nights and a la carte service.
Bukhara in Al Mouj is an upscale North Indian restaurant inside Kempinski Hotel Muscat. The kitchen is an open show-kitchen with a tandoor focus, and the room serves both a la carte and a set menu. Its signature is Bhatti Ka Lobster, made with Omani lobster.
Ba Ban in Shatti Al Qurum Beach is a modern Chinese restaurant with a la carte, set menu, and tasting menu formats. It pairs premium Omani and international ingredients with a wine list, craft cocktails, an extensive wine list, and zero-proof drinks.
Al Khiran Kitchen is an international and Omani buffet with themed nights at Al Bustan Palace. It also serves a la carte, with views over the infinity pool and the Gulf of Oman.
Cigar Vault and Al Maha Bar & Lounge both have standard wine programmes, and S O L É Lounge is a Mediterranean daytime lounge.
S O L É Lounge in Shatti Al Qurum is a Mediterranean lounge at Tivoli LA VIE Muscat. It offers soulful dining, drinks, and light refreshments in a daytime lounge setting.
Cigar Vault in Madinat Al Irfan is a cigar lounge, and the view from the lounge is the LA VIE Country Club Golf Course. An extensive drinks selection is available at the bar. Classic cocktails are served in the lounge as well.
Al Maha Bar & Lounge in the Al Bustan neighbourhood is a hotel-lobby lounge with a golden-age aesthetic. The room runs a nightly jazz, soul, and blues programme in the lounge, and the bar pours both classic cocktails and craft cocktails.
Al Mouj and Shatti Al Qurum hold the most venues in our Muscat guide, with 14 venues in Al Mouj and 10 in Shatti Al Qurum. Madinat Al Irfan has 4 venues. These counts include hotels and spas together with restaurants and bars.
Muscat has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Ba Ban in Shatti Al Qurum Beach serves modern Chinese cooking with a tasting menu and a wine list. Mandarin Oriental, Muscat in Shatti Al Qurum holds a Star Wine List award from 2026.
Ba Ban in Shatti Al Qurum Beach serves a tasting menu in our Muscat guide. It is a modern Chinese restaurant in W Muscat, and the tasting menu sits with a la carte and set menu service. The menu uses premium Omani and international ingredients with classic Chinese recipes.
Ba Ban in Shatti Al Qurum Beach has an extensive wine list, with craft cocktails and zero-proof drinks; CHAR in Shatti Al Qurum has a wine list; and Mandarin Oriental, Muscat in Shatti Al Qurum holds a Star Wine List award from 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Muscat
Selected entries from the current guide for Muscat.
Muscat, Oman
Al Khiran Kitchen fits Muscat’s hotel-dining pattern: international comfort, Gulf-facing ease, and a room suited to mixed groups rather than a tightly scripted tasting-menu audience. Its value lies in setting and flexibility, with Omani coastal context doing much of the work around the table.
Muscat, Oman
Al Mandoos sits within Muscat's growing circuit of Omani dining rooms that take traditional Gulf hospitality seriously as a format. The name itself, referencing the ornate wooden chest central to Omani heritage, signals an intent to ground the experience in cultural specificity rather than regional generality. For visitors seeking Omani cuisine beyond hotel buffets, it represents a practical starting point in the capital.
Muscat, Oman
Al Muheet belongs to Muscat’s resort-side dining circuit, where the strongest argument is proximity to the Gulf rather than chef theatrics. Its Barr Al Jissah poolside setting suits diners looking for a relaxed coastal meal, with Omani seafood culture and the city’s hotel-dining ecosystem providing the useful frame.
Muscat, Oman
Ba Ban sits on Al Kharjiya Street in Muscat, a city where restaurant choices often split between hotel dining rooms, Omani heritage kitchens, and international formats shaped by the Gulf’s trading routes. The useful lens here is sourcing: seafood, rice, spices, dates, and imported pantry goods define how Muscat tables read, even when a venue does not publish a detailed menu or chef profile.
Muscat, Oman
On the Mutrah Corniche, Bait Al Luban occupies one of Muscat's most charged dining addresses, directly opposite the old harbour where Omani trading vessels once loaded frankincense for the Arabian Peninsula and beyond. The kitchen draws on the same ingredient traditions that defined Gulf cooking for centuries, making it a reference point for anyone mapping Omani cuisine in its historical context.
Muscat, Oman
Bukhara belongs to the Muscat dining conversation around origin, spice, and the way Gulf cities absorb food traditions from across the Indian Ocean. With no public awards or chef-led mythology to lean on, the useful read is comparative: place it against the city’s Omani, hotel, and international dining rooms, then judge how clearly the kitchen communicates sourcing, seasoning, and format.
Muscat, Oman
Butter Buns sits in Muscat’s fast-growing casual dining tier, where bakery-led comfort food and café formats compete with hotel restaurants, Omani kitchens, and dessert counters for the same off-duty crowd. Its Airport Hills location places it away from the Muttrah waterfront circuit, making it a useful read on how the city’s everyday eating habits are shifting toward bread, butter, coffee, and short-format meals.
Muscat, Oman
Catch sits in Muscat’s Airport Hills district, away from the older waterfront dining corridors and closer to the capital’s newer hotel, convention, and business traffic. With no public awards, chef attribution, price band, or signature list attached, it reads less as a trophy-table proposition than as part of Muscat’s expanding contemporary restaurant map.
Muscat, Oman
CHAR at the W Muscat brings fire-focused cooking to Alkharjiya Street, positioning itself within the city's growing tier of hotel dining rooms that compete on format and atmosphere as much as on the plate. Set inside one of Muscat's most architecturally deliberate hotel properties, it represents a style of dining where the ritual of the meal, the pacing, the theatre of the grill, does much of the talking.
Muscat, Oman
Charm Thai Lounge & Restaurant sits in Muscat’s airport-heights dining belt, where international restaurants serve residents, conference traffic, and hotel guests rather than only waterfront leisure crowds. The useful lens here is sourcing: Thai cooking depends on fresh herbs, aromatics, rice, seafood, and heat control, and in Oman that means the kitchen has to translate a humid Southeast Asian pantry through Gulf supply chains and local expectations.
Muscat, Oman
Connexions sits in Muscat’s newer hospitality corridor, where business travel, airport access, and hotel dining shape the tempo more than old-souk ritual. Treat it as a planning-dependent Muscat restaurant choice rather than a documented destination table: confirm the current format, menu, and reservation policy before building an evening around it.
Muscat, Oman
Harvest sits within Muscat's emerging dining scene, where locally sourced ingredients and the agricultural rhythms of Oman's interior increasingly shape what appears on the plate. The restaurant represents a growing current in the city's food culture: one that looks to the date farms of the Batinah coast, the fisheries of the Arabian Sea, and the spice routes that have long defined Omani cooking as the foundation for a contemporary menu.
Muscat, Oman
Mazahbi Salalah Restaurant brings the cooking traditions of Dhofar to Muscat's dining scene, where slow-cooked Omani preparations and communal eating customs define the experience. The name references the Salalah region's distinct culinary identity, separating it from the capital's more familiar Gulf-leaning menus. For visitors tracing Oman's regional food differences, this is a useful reference point.
Muscat, Oman
All-day dining in Muscat occupies a distinct niche between the city's heritage Omani restaurants and its hotel-led fine dining tier. The Coffee Club sits within that middle register, offering a format built around flexibility and consistency rather than occasion-specific menus. For visitors moving between the souq and the waterfront, it functions as a reliable anchor in a city still defining its casual-dining identity.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Muscat.
Muscat, Oman
Set on 370 metres of private beachfront in Muscat's residential Al Ghubra district, The Chedi Muscat places European minimalism in direct conversation with Omani architectural tradition across 21 acres of palm-filled gardens. A Leading Hotels of the World member with 151 rooms and 38 suites, it earned the 2025 World Travel Awards for both World's Leading Luxury Beach Resort and Middle East's Leading Luxury City Resort.
Muscat, Oman
Six Senses Zighy Bay occupies a remote horseshoe bay on Oman's Musandam Peninsula, its 82 stone-and-palm-frond villas modelled on a traditional fishing village. Ranked #84 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2025 and rated 98.5 points by La Liste in 2026, it pairs serious sustainability infrastructure with dramatic arrival options, paraglide in from the ridge above, or arrive by speedboat.
Muscat, Oman
The St. Regis Al Mouj Muscat Resort marks the brand's first property in Oman, delivering a beachfront setting on nearly 1,200 feet of private coastline with nine distinct dining venues, a Guerlain Spa, and direct access to a Greg Norman-designed golf course. Award-recognised across luxury wedding, conference, and beachfront categories, it sits at the summit of Muscat's coastal resort tier.
Muscat, Oman
W Muscat occupies the Al Qurum coastal strip, where the Marriott lifestyle brand meets Oman's particular brand of Gulf modernity. Recognised as Oman's Leading Lifestyle Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards and awarded 95 points by La Liste in 2026, it positions itself at the intersection of international brand infrastructure and local market prestige, in a city that has quietly built one of the Gulf's more considered luxury hotel offerings.
Muscat, Oman
Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel occupies a dramatic position on Muscat's coastline, framed by the Hajar Mountains on one side and the Gulf of Oman on the other. Recognised by La Liste's Top Hotels ranking with 93 points in 2026, it sits in the upper tier of Oman's luxury hotel market. The scale and architectural ambition of the property place it in a different category from the city's newer resort entrants.
Muscat, Oman
Opened in June 2024, Mandarin Oriental, Muscat is the brand's first property in Oman, positioned in the Shatti Al Qurum district with a Star Wine List recognition already secured within its debut year. The hotel places itself in the upper tier of Muscat's luxury accommodation market alongside long-established names, offering a wellness-centred retreat format that aligns with the Mandarin Oriental group's global spa programming.
Muscat, Oman
Crowne Plaza Muscat OCEC sits in the Madinat Al Irfan district, positioned as a convention-adjacent property that has earned both Regional and Country recognition for sustainable luxury. Its location at Airport Heights makes it a practical base for business travellers and delegates, while its award credentials place it in a tier above standard business-class accommodation in Muscat.
Muscat, Oman
At Madinat Al Irfan in Muscat's Airport Hills district, JW Marriott Hotel Muscat has earned recognition as a Country Winner for Luxury Conference and Event Hotel and a Continent Winner for Best General Manager, two awards that signal where it sits in the Gulf's large-format luxury tier. The property anchors the business and events segment of Muscat's hotel market, offering a level of service infrastructure that positions it distinctly from the city's resort-led alternatives.
Muscat, Oman
Positioned within Al Mouj, Muscat's master-planned marina district, Kempinski Hotel Muscat brings 310 rooms, eleven restaurants and lounges, and two kilometres of private beach under one address. The property sits alongside Al Mouj Golf's PGA-standard course and the Al Mouj Marina yachting facility, placing it closer to the city's newer northern corridor than to the historic Muttrah waterfront favoured by some competitors.
Muscat, Oman
Al Husn sits on a private bay at Barr Al Jissah, roughly 45 minutes from Muscat airport, with 180 rooms and suites looking out over cliffs, white sand, and calm Arabian Sea water. The property operates as an adults-only enclave within a larger resort complex, giving it a quieter register than most Gulf coast hotels.
Muscat, Oman
A Michelin Selected property on the cliffs above Bandar Jissah cove, Barr Al Jissah occupies among the more architecturally considered resort sites in Oman. Three distinct hotels share a private beach and mountain backdrop, placing this complex in a different tier from Muscat's city-centre properties. It is a logical base for travellers who want scale, facilities, and direct sea access within reach of the capital.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Muscat.
Muscat, Oman
Al Maha Bar & Lounge is a lobby bar in Muscat shaped by hotel-lounge codes rather than nightlife theatrics. The draw is the setting: a composed room for a measured drink, business conversation, or pre-dinner pause, with cocktail specifics and pricing better checked directly before committing to an evening.
Muscat, Oman
In a city where alcohol service operates within specific licensed hotel and hospitality venues, Cigar Vault occupies a deliberate niche: a lounge format built around premium cigars and the kind of measured, unhurried evening that Muscat's upscale hospitality circuit does better than most. It sits apart from the city's sports bars and daytime lounges, positioning itself for travellers who prefer considered atmosphere over spectacle.
Muscat, Oman
Nineteenth Sports Bar brings a dedicated sports-viewing format to Muscat's licensed venue circuit, pairing live coverage with a back bar built for the long game. It sits in a category that remains thin in Oman, where the gap between hotel lounges and fully configured sports venues is wider than in most regional capitals. For visitors and residents who want screens, atmosphere, and a proper pour in the same room, it fills a specific gap.
Muscat, Oman
S O L É Lounge occupies Muscat's daytime lounge register, where light refreshments and a considered atmosphere set it apart from the city's heavier dining options. It sits within a scene that increasingly prizes mood and setting as much as what's on the menu. For visitors seeking a quieter interval between appointments or a relaxed afternoon pause, it represents a calibrated stop in the Omani capital.
Muscat
Selected entries from the current guide for Muscat.
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