Start from 38 curated places around Abu Dhabi, AE, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Mezlai
An Emirati fine-dining room inside Emirates Palace that plates heritage Gulf dishes, from camel and lamb machboos to date-based desserts, with local ingredients and real ceremony. The most refined place in the city to actually eat Emirati food.
Erth
A Michelin-starred modern Emirati restaurant by Qasr Al Hosn that reworks Gulf cooking with farm-sourced ingredients from across the Emirates in a striking contemporary space. The forward-looking counterpart to the heritage restaurants.
Trails & outdoors
Jubail Mangrove Park
A boardwalk threading through pristine mangrove forest on the city's edge, with viewing platforms over channels where herons, flamingos, and small fish gather. A flat, accessible nature walk that feels remote despite the nearby towers.
Eastern Mangroves Promenade
A waterfront promenade backing onto the eastern mangrove lagoons, with a paved walk, cafes, and kayak and paddleboard launches into the channels. The easy, central way to get on the water among the mangroves.
Things to do
Louvre Abu Dhabi
A landmark museum under a vast latticed dome that rains dappled 'light' onto the galleries below, telling a single connected story of human art across civilizations. The building by Jean Nouvel is as much the draw as the collection inside.
teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi
A purpose-built immersive digital-art venue on Saadiyat — the world's largest digital art museum at 17,000 square metres — where rooms of water, light, and projection respond to your presence, blurring the line between artwork and environment. A walk-through experience rather than a hang-on-the-wall museum.
Landmarks & sights
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
One of the world's largest mosques, a vision of white marble inlaid with flowers, reflecting pools, and the biggest hand-knotted carpet ever made. It shifts color from noon-white to soft gold at dusk, and the after-dark 'lunar' lighting tracks the moon's phase.
Qasr Al Watan
The working presidential palace opened to visitors, a gleaming complex of vaulted halls, a vast domed great hall, and a library of rare manuscripts. Less a museum than a walk through the ceremonial heart of the state.