Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Abu Dhabi
This list has eight restaurants in Abu Dhabi with wine programmes. Three hold Wine Spectator awards. Hakkasan in Al Ras Al Akhdar and Zuma in Al Reem Island hold Award of Excellence. Paradiso in Yas Island holds Best of Award of Excellence, with nearly 5,000 bottles spanning France, California, and Italy.
Five restaurants on this list keep an exceptional wine programme. LPM Abu Dhabi in Al Reem Island has an extensive French and Mediterranean list, sommelier-led, with a World's Best Wine Lists Awards 3-Star award and Star Wine List recognition in 2024. Cafe Milano, also in Al Reem Island, has an extensive list with contemporary Italian cooking. Bord Eau by Nicolas Isnard and Marco Pierre White Steakhouse in Al Maqtaa, and Oak Room in Al Bateen, also keep extensive lists. Oak Room's list is sommelier-led.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Bord Eau by Nicolas Isnard
Deep wine list
Bord Eau by Nicolas Isnard brings structured French dining to the Hotel's waterfront setting in Abu Dhabi, holding a Michelin Plate across three consecutive guide editions (2024–2026). The kitchen frames classic French technique through a multi-course format that positions it clearly within the city's premium European dining tier, alongside Michelin-recognised peers at the summit of Abu Dhabi's restaurant scene.
Cafe Milano
Deep wine list
Cafe Milano places Abu Dhabi’s Italian dining in the polished hotel-restaurant register: recognisable regional cooking, a dressy room, and Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The appeal is not experimental Italy, but the confidence of a capital-city Italian room built for long lunches, business dinners, and Gulf-style evening dining.
Hakkasan
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Hakkasan at Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental holds a Michelin star and the top ranking from Star Wine List (2024), placing it among the more formally recognised Chinese restaurants in the Gulf. The kitchen serves Cantonese cooking in a format that ranges from weeknight dinner to Saturday dim sum lunch, backed by a 325-label wine list with 960 bottles in inventory. The setting is the kind of room that earns repeat visits from people who know exactly what they are returning for.
LPM Abu Dhabi
Deep wine list
LPM Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi presents French Mediterranean cuisine rooted in Niçoise tradition. Must-try dishes include Niçoise-style Salad, Whole Grilled Sea Bass and Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb. The kitchen highlights market-fresh seafood, seasonal produce and simple, bright preparations that let ingredients sing. A recent accolade—World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, Rank #38—underscores the restaurant's regional standing. Expect warm service, an extensive French and Mediterranean wine list, and plating that emphasizes color, texture and clean flavors. The overall experience is lively yet polished, with fragrant olives, caramelized crusts and citrus brightness on every plate.
Marco Pierre White Steakhouse
Deep wine list
Marco Pierre White Steakhouse occupies a setting along Khor Al Maqta, one of Abu Dhabi's more historically resonant waterways, carrying the weight of a name that reshaped British fine dining in the 1990s. The format follows the steakhouse model White has exported to international markets: premium beef, classical technique, and a room designed for occasion dining. In Abu Dhabi's crowded high-end dining scene, it represents a deliberate bet on provenance and pedigree over novelty.
Oak Room
Deep wine list
Oak Room at The Abu Dhabi EDITION sits inside Abu Dhabi's upper tier of hotel fine dining, holding a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025).
Paradiso
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Paradiso brings Mediterranean and Italian cooking to Yas Bay Waterfront, holding a 2025 Michelin Plate alongside a wine list of nearly 5,000 bottles spanning France, California, and Italy.
Zuma
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Zuma Abu Dhabi elevates Japanese izakaya dining to fine art on Al Maryah Island's waterfront, where Rainer Becker's award-winning concept transforms sharing culture into sophisticated theater. Signature miso black cod and robata-grilled specialties unfold around theatrical open kitchens in this energy-charged temple to contemporary Japanese cuisine.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Abu Dhabi
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Hakkasan in Al Ras Al Akhdar and Zuma in Al Reem Island hold Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2025. Paradiso in Yas Island holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025, with nearly 5,000 bottles spanning France, California, and Italy.
- Which neighbourhoods on this list have exceptional wine programmes?
- Exceptional wine programmes on this list are in Al Reem Island, Al Maqtaa, and Al Bateen. LPM Abu Dhabi and Cafe Milano in Al Reem Island keep exceptional programmes, and LPM's list is extensive, French and Mediterranean, and sommelier-led. Bord Eau by Nicolas Isnard and Marco Pierre White Steakhouse in Al Maqtaa keep exceptional programmes with extensive lists. Oak Room in Al Bateen keeps an exceptional programme with an extensive, sommelier-led list and a wine-by-the-glass bar.
- Which lists on this page name their wine regions?
- LPM Abu Dhabi in Al Reem Island and Paradiso in Yas Island name the wine regions on their lists. LPM Abu Dhabi has an extensive French and Mediterranean wine list. Paradiso has nearly 5,000 bottles spanning France, California, and Italy.
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