Muscat
When it comes to cocktails (try the Samoan Fogcutter or Honi Honi), nowhere competes with this fun and lively Polynesian-style venue. Resident expert…
Must-see nightlife in Oman
Muscat
This novel lounge restaurant, with its giant psychedelic TV screen, serves a spirited cocktail and a fine-dining menu for modest prices, but it's the…
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Dhofar
The island may be artificial, only one bar wide and accessible by a humpback bridge so small that you could almost span it in one stride, but the sense of…
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Salalah
One of the few places to serve alcohol in Salalah, this open-air bar is shaded by palms. Enjoy sundowners here before the nightly buffet and watch the…
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Dhofar
A highly popular venue for a drink, the indoor bar at the Hilton Salalah Hotel hosts DJs on Thursdays and Fridays between 11.30pm and 2am. There's an…
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Sur
This modern coffeeshop, in front of the trendsetting Zaki Hotel Apartments, is attractively decked out with homely tables and chairs and specialises in…
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Muscat
This stylish cafe overlooking the marina has brought a touch of class to the new esplanade that is slowly expanding around the fashionable Al Mouj complex…
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Muscat
If you sit sipping tea long enough in the extravagant foyer of this sumptuous hotel, chances are you’ll worry that the tea was laced: the statue of the…
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Hajar Mountains
With repro–art nouveau touches, a polished brass bar rail, sitting areas semi-hidden with glass partitions and music videos showing brazen images, this…
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Al Ashkara Beach Resort Coffeeshop
Oman
You don't have to stay at the Al Ashkara Beach Resort to stop by its tiny coffeeshop. Alongside a windswept stretch of coast, it makes the perfect place…
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Oman
Ladies will feel at home in the darkened interior of this tiny cafe by the fish market – it caters for a largely female clientele. Dimly lit and with a…
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Jebel Shams
This smart, modern cafe on the approach road to Jebel Shams is something of a surprise find, given the traditional nature of the neighbourhood. As a…
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Nizwa
Beside the pool in the rear quadrangle of the Falaj Daris Hotel, this bar attracts mostly hotel guests, but it is open to nonresidents, too. It's the only…
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Salalah
This fun little cafe is decked out more like an Arizonan rather than Arabian desert diner, with small cubicles for a cosy chat indoors and some outside…
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Oman
This stylish new cafe with its sofas and urban chic interior is perfectly located on the Corniche to provide refreshment during a stroll of the seafront…
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Khasab
This cosy spot in the basement of the Atana Khasab Hotel was the only place to buy a beer in town at the time of research. Bar-goers either sit inside…
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Muscat
With a terrace overlooking the end of Qurm bay, this is a perfect venue for a happy-hour cocktail. Watch the sun sink over the ocean at one of the terrace…
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Oman
A circular bar located above the activities area of the Millennium Resort offers terraced outdoor seating and attracts holidaying expats and young, trend…
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Muscat
More of a pub than a bar, this is a popular expat-meeting place, with live music, a quiz night, televised sport and excellent Western-style bar food.
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Dhofar
This stylish cafe with indoor seating offers some respite from the midday heat and serves excellent coffee, cakes and a range of tasty mocktails.
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Oman
This smart new juice bar on the main highway between Sur and Ibra sells a delicious range of fruit juices, including pomegranate and watermelon.
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Al Hamra
Selling delicious banana, mango and pomegranate juice to take away, this tiny juice shop is one of several along the main road in new Al Hamra.
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Oman
It's thirsty work climbing up the multiple flights of stairs at Nakhal Fort: luckily there is somewhere to buy water or soft drinks just opposite the car…
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Sur
This simple open-air coffeeshop offers the typical local brand of nightlife: plastic seats, a tree or awning of some description, chai libton (a…
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Da'an Al Pesaiteen Coffee Shop
Jebel Akhdar
This tiny coffee shop – one of a series of government-built outlets all over Jebel Akhdar, located in pretty picnic spots – offers tea, coffee, soft…
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Muscat
This branch of a popular chain of local-style coffee shops has the advantage of a magnificent view of the sea and a small garden for shisha smokers,…
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Oman
A small shack selling snacks offers a shady seating area close to the ferry across Wadi Shab. It makes an ideal place to enjoy a tea or coffee while…
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Muscat
Named after the raised ship and its booty of silver treasure that made the fortunes of the Hyatt’s owner, this bar is a sophisticated setting for some…
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Muscat
For Muscat’s perennial hot spot, visit Rock Bottom Café, which has live music every night with a DJ and a dance floor in case the mood takes you.
