Saudi Arabia

Middle Eastern food is quite delicious and there are many local specialties that everyone enjoys.  Khobz is unleavened Arabic bread and is eaten, freshly baked, with almost everything. Shawerma (thinly sliced, spit-cooked sliced lamb or chicken), felafel (deep-fried chickpea balls), and fuul (a paste of beans, garlic and lemon) are staple items. Traditional Arabic coffee is wonderfully aromatic and served everywhere.

There is an enormous variety of excellent restaurants in Jeddah, covering every conceivable price range and global cuisine.  Eating out is one of Jeddah’s favourite occupations and there are over 1000 restaurants to choose from. All of the big hotels offer buffets and themed evenings so that it’s possible to eat from a different area of the world, from Japan to Mexico, every night of the week.  The major international fast-food chains have many branches in Jeddah and are popular meeting places.

Restaurants are divided into two separate sections, one for ‘families’ and one for ‘bachelors’ where only men are allowed.  Men are not allowed into the family section without a woman.  The family section will usually be discreetly positioned at the back of the restaurant or upstairs and families may be screened off from each other.

Traditional eating times are very late by Western standards and it’s not unusual to see a restaurant car park still packed with cars well after midnight.

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