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Salam Dakkak
Award 2026
Icon Award - Middle East & North Africa's Salam Dakkak - Bait Maryam (Dubai, UAE) Middle East & North Africa's Best Female Chef Sara Aqel - Dara Dining by Sara Aqel (Amman, Jordan) Best Pastry Chef Wassim e Omar Orfali - Orfali Bros (Dubai, UAE) Chefs' Choice Award Himanshu Saini - Trèsind Studio (Dubai, UAE) Sustainable Restaurant Award Farmers (Marrakech, Morocco) Highest Climber Award Reif Kushiyaki Cairo (Cairo, Egypt) Highest New Entry Award Beihouse (Beirut, Lebanon) One To Watch Award Middle Child (Dubai, UAE) Art of Hospitality Award La Grande Table Marocaine (Marrakech, Morocco) Champions of Change Award Muna Haddad (Amman, Jordan)
Khufu's (Cairo, Egypt)
(30/01/2026) Middle East & North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (i ristoranti in salita, rispetto all'anno precedente, sono di colore bordeaux) 1° (4) Khufu's (Cairo, Egypt) Mostafa Seif (khufus.com) 2° (3) Kinoya (Dubai, UAE) Neha Mishra (Kinoya) 3° (2) Trèsind Studio (Dubai, UAE) Himanshu Saini (Home - Tresind Studio) 4° (1) Orfali Bros Bistro (Dubai, UAE) Mohamed Orfali (ORFALI BROS.) 5° (-) Beihouse (Beirut, Lebanon) Tarek Alameddine (Beihouse) 6° (30) Kuuru (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Eddie Castro (KUURU RESTAURANT) 7° (-) Sufret Maryam (Dubai, UAE) Salam Dakkak (Sufret Maryam) 8° (7) Jun's (Dubai, UAE) Kelvin Cheung (junsdubai.com) 9° (-) Manao (Dubai, UAE) Abhiraj Khatwani (MANAO) 10° (10) Moonrise (Dubai, UAE) Solemann Haddad (moon-rise.xyz) 11° (-) Table 3 (Casablanca, Morocco) Fayçal Bettioui (TABLE 3) 12° (16) Marble (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Abdulrahman Alsowailem (Marble Cuisine) 13° (9) Em Sherif (Beirut, Lebanon) Mireille e Yasmina Hayek (Em Sherif) 14° (-) 11 Woodfire (Dubai, UAE) Brando Moros (11 Woodfire) 15° (-) Kokoro (Dubai, UAE) Daniela Moiseev (Kokoro Hand Roll Bar) 16° (29) Marmellata Bakery (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Raj Dagstani (MARMELLATA) 17° (14) 3 Fils Dubai (Dubai, UAE) Shun Shiroma e Freddy Kazadi (3Fils Dubai) 18° (-) Cantina (Kuwait City, Kuwait) Basmah Marouf 19° (22) La Grande Table Marocaine (Marrakech, Morocco) Karim Ben Baba (royalmansour.com) 20° (47) Reif Kushiyaki Cairo (Cairo, Egypt) Talal El Meligy (Reif Kushiyaki Egypt) 21° (46) Le Petit Cornichon (Marrakech, Morocco) Erwann Lance (Le Petit Cornichon Marrakech) 22° (-) FZN (Dubai, UAE) Torsten Vildgaard (FZN Restaurant Dubai)
23° (41) TakaHisa (Dubai, UAE) Takashi Namekata e Hisao Ueda (TakaHisa)
24° (32) Sesamo (Marrakech, Morocco) Vania Ghedini (Sesamo) 25° (24) Kazoku (Cairo, Egypt) Tarek Alameddine (kazokuegypt.com) 26° (8) Shams El Balad (Amman, Jordan) Qais Malhas (Shams El Balad) 27° (23) LPM Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Navaneeth Chandran (lpmrestaurants.com) 28° (13) Alee (Amman, Jordan) Ali Ghzawi 29° (-) Three Bros (Dubai, UAE) Mohamad Orfali (THREE BROS) 30° (18) Dara Dining by Sara Aqel (Amman, Jordan) Sara Aqel (Dara) 31° (35) +61 (Marrakech, Morocco) Andrew Cibej (Plus61) 32° (21) Zooba (Zamalek) (Cairo, Egypt) Moustafa El Refaey (zoobaeats.com)33° (25) Gaia (Dubai, UAE) Izu Ani (gaia-restaurants.com) 34° (19) Zuma (Dubai, UAE) Pawel Kazanowski (Zuma Restaurants) 35° (37) Mimi Kakushi (Dubai, UAE) Vladimir Kim (Mimi Kakushi) 36° (17) Row on 45 (Dubai, UAE) Daniel Birk (rowon45dubai.com)
37° (40) Sachi Giza (Giza, Egypt) Ashour Dessouki (sachirestaurant.com) 38° (50) Niri (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Yasuyuki Takemotosan (NIRI Restaurant and Bar) 39° (-) Buco (Beirut, Lebanon) Tarek Alameddine 40° (-) Chez Wam (Dubai, UAE) Hadrien Villedieu (CHEZ WAM) 41° (12) Boca (Dubai, UAE) Patricia Roig (BOCA) 42° (-) 3 Fils Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Jun Kamiyama (3Fils Dubai) 43° (-) Girl and the Goose (Dubai, UAE) Gabriela Chamorro (Girl & the Goose) 44° (-) Idam by Alain Ducasse (Doha, Qatar) Fabrice Rosso (IDAM)
45° (49) Myazu (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Ian Pengelley (Riyadh - Myazu) 46° (-) Le Golfe (La Marsa, Tunisia) Fulvio Pischedda e Khaled Blassoued 47° (-) LPM Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Navaneeth Chandran (LPM Abu Dhabi) 48° (-) Lyra (Manama, Bahrain) Ilias Tasioulas (Lyra Restaurant) 49° (-) Farmers (Marrakech, Morocco) Driss Aloui (Farmers) 50° (-) Matbakhi (Kuwait City, Kuwait) Sawsan Da’ana
(5) Ossiano (Dubai, UAE) Gregoire Berger (Ossiano) (6) Fusions by Tala (Manama, Bahrain) Tala Bashmi (11) Fakhreldin (Amman, Jordan) Rafic Nakhle (atico-jo.com) (15) Bait Maryam (Dubai, UAE) Salam Dakkak (Bait Maryam) (20) Sufra (Amman, Jordan) Azam Nofal (Romero Group)
(28) 11 Woodfire (Dubai, UAE) Akmal Anuar (11 WoodFire) (31) Lunch Room (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Ahmad Al-Bader (lunchroom) (33) Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (Dubai, UAE) Thomas Allen (Dinner by Heston Blumenthal) (36) 13C Bar in the Back (Amman, Jordan) Alaaeddin Ahmad (13C Wine & Spirits) (38) LPM Dubai (Dubai, UAE) Ravikanth Avaduta (lpmrestaurants.com) (39) Aseeb (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Abdulrahman Albabtain (Aseeb)
(43) Cut by Wolfgang Puck (Doha, Qatar) Luke Omarzu (sbe.com) (48) La Grande Brasserie by Hélène Darroze (Marrakech, Morocco) Hélène Darroze (La Grande Brasserie by Helène Darroze)

Middle East & North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (divisi per Stati) Middle East Libano (3) 5° (-) Beihouse (Beirut, Lebanon) Tarek Alameddine (Beihouse) 13° (9) Em Sherif (Beirut, Lebanon) Mireille e Yasmina Hayek (Em Sherif) 39° (-) Buco (Beirut, Lebanon) Tarek Alameddine Giordania (3) 26° (8) Shams El Balad (Amman, Jordan) Qais Malhas (Shams El Balad) 28° (13) Alee (Amman, Jordan) Ali Ghzawi 30° (18) Dara Dining by Sara Aqel (Amman, Jordan) Sara Aqel (Dara) Arabia Saudita (3) 6° (30) Kuuru (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Eddie Castro (KUURU RESTAURANT) 12° (16) Marble (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Abdulrahman Alsowailem (Marble Cuisine) 45° (49) Myazu (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Ian Pengelley (Riyadh - Myazu)
Kuwait (2) 18° (-) Cantina (Kuwait City, Kuwait) Basmah Marouf 50° (-) Matbakhi (Kuwait City, Kuwait) Sawsan Da’ana Bahrain (1) 48° (-) Lyra (Manama, Bahrain) Ilias Tasioulas (Lyra Restaurant) Qatar (1) 44° (-) Idam by Alain Ducasse (Doha, Qatar) Fabrice Rosso (IDAM) UAE (25) 2° (3) Kinoya (Dubai, UAE) Neha Mishra (Kinoya) 3° (2) Trèsind Studio (Dubai, UAE) Himanshu Saini (Home - Tresind Studio) 4° (1) Orfali Bros Bistro (Dubai, UAE) Mohamed Orfali (ORFALI BROS.) 7° (-) Sufret Maryam (Dubai, UAE) Salam Dakkak (Sufret Maryam) 8° (7) Jun's (Dubai, UAE) Kelvin Cheung (junsdubai.com) 9° (-) Manao (Dubai, UAE) Abhiraj Khatwani (MANAO) 10° (10) Moonrise (Dubai, UAE) Solemann Haddad (moon-rise.xyz)
17° (14) 3 Fils Dubai (Dubai, UAE) Shun Shiroma e Freddy Kazadi (3Fils Dubai) 22° (-) FZN (Dubai, UAE) Torsten Vildgaard (FZN Restaurant Dubai)
23° (41) TakaHisa (Dubai, UAE) Takashi Namekata e Hisao Ueda (TakaHisa) 27° (23) LPM Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Navaneeth Chandran (lpmrestaurants.com) 29° (-) Three Bros (Dubai, UAE) Mohamad Orfali (THREE BROS) 40° (-) Chez Wam (Dubai, UAE) Hadrien Villedieu (CHEZ WAM) 41° (12) Boca (Dubai, UAE) Patricia Roig (BOCA) 42° (-) 3 Fils Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Jun Kamiyama (3Fils Dubai) 43° (-) Girl and the Goose (Dubai, UAE) Gabriela Chamorro (Girl & the Goose) 47° (-) LPM Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Navaneeth Chandran (LPM Abu Dhabi)
North Africa
Marocco (6) 11° (-) Table 3 (Casablanca, Morocco) Fayçal Bettioui (TABLE 3) 19° (22) La Grande Table Marocaine (Marrakech, Morocco) Karim Ben Baba (royalmansour.com) 21° (46) Le Petit Cornichon (Marrakech, Morocco) Erwann Lance (Le Petit Cornichon Marrakech) 24° (32) Sesamo (Marrakech, Morocco) Vania Ghedini (Sesamo) 31° (35) +61 (Marrakech, Morocco) Andrew Cibej (Plus61) 49° (-) Farmers (Marrakech, Morocco) Driss Aloui (Farmers)
Tunisia (1) 46° (-) Le Golfe (La Marsa, Tunisia) Fulvio Pischedda e Khaled Blassoued
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