Middle Eastern favourites are available in abundance here; so too is Indian cuisine, courtesy of the large number of restaurant owners and immigrants from the sub-continent. The Western version of fast food has increasingly invaded Manama over the past decade. Those familiar golden arches of McDonald’s have sprouted up all over the city and a Burger King is also never far away. Manama also offers a small number of other less common culinary styles. Japanese restaurants are available at a few of the international hotels, Chinese is much more common and even Balinese restaurants are now available – meaning that wherever you’re from and no matter how particular you are about your food, you won’t go hungry here. Local cuisine
Arabic dishes are the mainstay, particularly seafood, given Manama’s beachfront location. King fish steaks and prawns in tomato and masala sauce should not be missed, along with baked shari fish with local spices. Manama also offers the diner-on-the-move shawarma stalls selling kebab-style treats and the Bahraini take on fast food which consists of a pasta, rice, lentils, onion and chick pea mix with a choice of sauces, usually lemon or chilli, for an amazingly low price. | 
