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Eating
Not surprisingly, Sanaʻa has the best range of restaurants in the country, including a few
serving international dishes. In the evening the old city is something of a non event when
it comes to filling your belly and, unless you're happy to eat in your hotel, you'll need to
catch a taxi out to the new town in order to get a decent meal.
Of the hotel restaurants in the old town the standout is the restaurant inside the Arabia
Felix Tourist Hotel, which has an international menu featuring curries, pasta, seafood and
Yemeni staples for around YR600.
Houmald Salta$
YEMENI
(Souq al-Milh; meals YR400-600; noon-3pm)
Next to the qat market in the heart of the old city.
This restaurant is regarded as having the best
salta
(a kind of stew and the traditional
lunch dish of the highlands) in Sana'a and is a pre-qat-session institution. Buy the accom-
panying sheets of bread from the women standing around outdoors. There are several sim-
ilar places nearby.
Palestine Restaurant$
YEMENI
(off Midan at-Tahrir; meals from YR600)
Attracting hordes of local workers for lunch and residents
of the neighbourhood for dinner this is the best of several cheap and cheerful restaurants
in the very heart of the city. The chefs whip up a mean chicken and rice.
Al-Shaibani
Modern Restaurant$$
YEMENI
( 266375; Hadda St; meals YR600-1000)
This is the restaurant that all the other restaurants in
Yemen want to take after. All the Yemeni staples here are done to perfection, but it's the
oven-baked fish that rules the roost.
Zeyna Food$$
ETHIOPIAN
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(14th October St; meals YR500-800; noon-3pm)
Run more as a hobby than a business by an
Ethiopian woman, this incredibly popular lunchtime restaurant gives you the opportunity
to try Ethiopia's national dish,
injira
(sourdough flatbread) and
wat
(spicy, curry like dish)
