Explore 12 Sharjah restaurants and cafes, from Emirati breakfast and heritage cafes to waterfront and beachside dining, with menu prices, reservations and nearby stops.
The most useful way to choose a restaurant in Sharjah is to decide what you want around the meal. Breakfast can lead into a souq walk. Coffee can follow an art installation. Dinner can end beside the lagoon or the open sea. The city rewards that extra bit of planning more than a long list of unrelated restaurant names.
This is a researched guide, not a collection of personal restaurant reviews. The twelve places below are organised by setting and occasion, with official links and published menu examples. They cover Sharjah city, not the emirate's east-coast towns of Kalba and Khor Fakkan.
For a first visit, pick one main meal and one nearby activity. If you want Emirati breakfast, begin with Arabian Tea House. For a heritage setting with a different cuisine, consider Nomani. For art, investigate Fen or Chie. For the coast, check the operating day before booking Al Qubtan.
Old Sharjah: make time for the streets between meals
Start with a district rather than a restaurant reservation. Heart of Sharjah gives a meal a setting: souqs, courtyards and a waterfront, with several very different ways to pause. These five stops are alternatives, not five courses to squeeze into the same afternoon.
1. Arabian Tea House
Souq Al Shanasiyah · Emirati breakfast and meals
The Sharjah branch sits in Souq Al Shanasiyah on Corniche Street. Its menu makes a useful introduction to Emirati dishes: balaleet, chebab and machboos provide different starting points depending on whether you want breakfast or a substantial meal. Choose this branch explicitly when checking directions; the Dubai locations are separate outings.
Build the visit around the souq, with breakfast before exploring or a meal afterwards. A few sweets and a drink are another way to stop without ordering a full lunch.
Official venue or tourism information: Arabian Tea House
2. Al Arsaha Public Coffee Shop
Souq Al Arsah · Coffee and tea
This is a pause inside the old souq rather than a destination tasting menu. Visit Sharjah highlights Arabic coffee and Sulaimani tea. Its appeal in an itinerary is scale: after walking through the market, you can sit down without committing the rest of the afternoon to a large meal.
Look for the souq coffee shop, not Arabian Tea House: the names and old-town locations can easily become mixed up. Ask for the current drink prices at the counter.
Official venue or tourism information: Al Arsaha Public Coffee Shop
3. Nomani
The Chedi Al Bait · Japanese and Korean
Nomani brings a different food tradition into the heritage district. The operator lists sushi, sashimi, Korean barbecue and ramen, making it a possibility when the setting interests you but the group wants something other than regional cooking. Do not confuse the restaurant reservation with booking an overnight hotel stay.
The published schedule is Tuesday-Sunday, noon-11 pm, with reservations recommended 24 hours ahead. Confirm your date through the restaurant's Book a Table link.
Official venue or tourism information: Nomani
4. The Cafe at The Chedi Al Bait
Bait Majlis Ibrahim Al Midfa · Coffee and desserts
The hotel places this cafe in the historic house of Bait Majlis Ibrahim Al Midfa and highlights its circular windtower. Turkish coffee and pastries make it a smaller-scale alternative to dinner. The architecture is a reason to choose this particular coffee stop, rather than treating every hotel cafe as interchangeable.
Ask about cafe seating and access when booking, especially if you are not staying at the hotel. Keep it as the break in an old-town walk.
Official venue or tourism information: The Cafe at The Chedi Al Bait
5. Al Bareed
The Chedi Al Bait · Former post office cafe
Al Bareed occupies Sharjah's historic first post office, according to the hotel, and serves coffee, ice cream and pastries overlooking the creek. It makes a useful contrast with the windtower cafe: two small hospitality spaces, each tied to a different part of the city's history.
Choose between the cafes based on the setting you want. Visiting both makes more sense over a leisurely day than as back-to-back obligatory stops.
Official venue or tourism information: Al Bareed
Art and architecture: give lunch a second reason
A gallery visit or a building you want to explore can be the anchor, with food extending the outing. Match the cafe to the actual venue: Sharjah's cultural destinations are not all in the same neighbourhood.
6. Fen Cafe & Restaurant
Sharjah Art Foundation venues · Art-led coffee stop
Sharjah Art Foundation has highlighted Fen at the Rain Room in Al Majarrah. That makes it an interesting pairing: an installation visit followed by a pause, rather than an isolated cafe detour. Older guides also associate Fen with other Foundation settings, so use the precise branch and venue when planning.
Check the Rain Room's current admission and booking separately from the cafe. A cafe visit is not an installation ticket, and an old exhibition listing is not today's programme.
Official venue or tourism information: Fen Cafe & Restaurant
7. Chie
House of Wisdom · Contemporary dining
Visit Sharjah lists Chie inside the House of Wisdom. This is a different outing from the old town: choose it when the library and cultural setting are part of the attraction. The combination can suit a slow lunch, a meeting or a visit organised around architecture rather than shopping.
Ask the venue for the current menu and restaurant hours before making food the centre of the visit. Building access hours and kitchen service need not be identical.
Menu prices: a concrete starting point
Use a dish price to plan an order, not as a claim about the whole bill. Arabian Tea House's Sharjah-specific page publishes the examples below. Checked on 15 September 2026; confirm the current menu and any additional charges when ordering.
- Balaleet with omelet: AED 36.
- Chebab bread: AED 34.
- Chicken machboos: AED 62.
- Luqaimat: AED 30.
For two people ordering one balaleet, one chebab and one portion of luqaimat to share, those listed food prices total AED 100 before drinks and any additional charges. That is a worked example, not a fixed breakfast package.
Arabian Tea House Sharjah: branch menu and prices
Before reserving
For a special meal, confirm the table location, menu and cancellation conditions together. For groups, ask whether an advance deposit or set menu applies. For seafood, check whether the quoted amount is per portion or by weight. Do not substitute a delivery price or a Dubai branch menu for the Sharjah dine-in menu.
Useful contacts: Arabian Tea House's Sharjah page lists +971 54 994 6323. The Chedi Al Bait lists +971 6 502 5555, and Nomani has a dedicated online reservation link. Sheraton's dining contact is +971 56 503 0063. Other venues' official links are beside their entries.
There is no reliable single price for “a meal in Sharjah.” A tea stop, a shared regional lunch and a seafood dinner are different purchases. Where the reviewed official page does not establish a current dine-in price, this guide links to the venue rather than inventing a budget band.
Around Al Majaz: dinner with room for a walk
Al Majaz is the lagoon-side chapter of the guide. It offers a different rhythm from the souqs: choose a meal, then leave room for the waterfront. Do not treat Al Majaz, Al Qasba and the open coast as one interchangeable address.
8. Ushna
Al Majaz Waterfront · Indian
Ushna's own Sharjah page places it on Corniche Street at Al Majaz Waterfront. Indian cooking gives a group a different choice from the Emirati and Japanese-Korean options earlier in the guide. The waterfront location is useful when you want the outing to continue after the meal.
Request a terrace table explicitly if that is the reason you are booking. Ask about spice levels and vegetarian choices when ordering rather than assuming every dish suits the whole table.
Official venue or tourism information: Ushna
9. Al Bait Al Baghdadi
Al Majaz 2 · Iraqi
This is an Iraqi-food option in Al Majaz 2, rather than another hotel dining room. The operator highlights masgouf, the Iraqi fish preparation, alongside its broader menu. It is a useful candidate for diners who want to explore a named regional cuisine rather than a generic international selection.
For fish, establish how it is priced, its size and preparation time before ordering. If several people will share, ask the restaurant to suggest an appropriate quantity and confirm sides.
The open coast: three different Sheraton dinners
These three restaurants are in the same hotel, Sheraton Sharjah Beach Resort & Spa. Compare the meal you want rather than treating them as three different neighbourhoods. Reserve dining and ask separately about any beach or pool access.
10. Arjwan
Sheraton Sharjah · Regional cooking
Arjwan combines Emirati dishes with Indian and Lebanese influences. It is the regional-food choice in this hotel group. Marriott lists dinner service and a smart-casual dress code.
Choose it when the food is the focus; request the current menu through the hotel.
Official venue or tourism information: Arjwan
11. Marasea
Sheraton Sharjah · Seafood
Marasea focuses on seafood with Asian influences. The published service is dinner, 6:30-11:30 pm, with smart-casual dress. It is a different proposition from dropping in for a beachside lunch.
Ask about the day's fish and any weight-based pricing before committing to a whole-fish order.
Official venue or tourism information: Marasea
12. Al Qubtan
Sheraton Sharjah · Beachside dining
Al Qubtan is the beach setting, serving international food and mocktails. Marriott currently lists Friday-Sunday opening, 12:30-11:30 pm, and Monday-Thursday closure.
Confirm the schedule before driving over. Ask for the seating you want rather than assuming every reservation has the same view.
Three half-day plans, not twelve reservations
Old-town morning
Start with Arabian Tea House, then explore the souq district. Leave a cafe stop optional rather than booking a second meal immediately. If architecture is the draw, compare The Cafe's windtower setting with Al Bareed's former post office. Nomani is the alternative main meal, not a necessary addition to breakfast and lunch.
An art-led afternoon
Choose either the Rain Room with a Fen stop or House of Wisdom with Chie. Check the cultural venue's programme and access before making the restaurant reservation. The Rain Room requires its own visit planning; a restaurant table does not secure installation admission. Keep the two districts separate in your navigation.
Sharjah Art Foundation: current visitor information and programme
Lagoon or beach evening
For the lagoon, plan around Ushna or Al Bait Al Baghdadi and a walk in the Al Majaz area. For the open coast, choose one Sheraton venue. Al Heera Beach is another area to explore, with a promenade and food outlets; it is a separate destination, not the hotel's private beach. Al Qasba, shown on the cover, offers a further canal-side setting for a future outing.
Getting there and parking
Set navigation to the exact branch, not just the restaurant brand. From Dubai, check live traffic before choosing a reservation time and leave a buffer for the last part of the drive. For the old town, identify visitor parking and the final walking approach. At a hotel, ask whether restaurant guests can use valet parking and whether a charge applies; a dinner booking does not automatically include resort facilities.
Live driving directions from Downtown Dubai to Souq Al Shanasiyah
Keep the day coherent. One area, one meal and enough time to look around will often give you more than racing between the old town, a library and the beach. For a different coastal weekend, our Al Marjan Island hotel and restaurant guide follows the same idea in Ras Al Khaimah.
