Start from 34 curated places around Doha, QA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Bandar Aden
A no-frills Yemeni restaurant in Souq Waqif where the move is haneeth, spice-rubbed slow-roasted lamb on a mound of fragrant rice, eaten on the floor with your hands. Generous, cheap, and deeply satisfying.
Parisa
A Persian restaurant in the Souq Waqif lanes famous as much for its dazzling mirror-mosaic interior as for its saffron-scented kebabs and stews. The most visually over-the-top room in the souk, and the food holds up.
Trails & outdoors
Doha Corniche
A seven-kilometer landscaped waterfront promenade curving around the bay, with the West Bay skyline on one side and the dhows and Museum of Islamic Art on the other. The city's signature flat walk or run, best in the cool of early morning or evening.
MIA Park
The green park wrapping the Museum of Islamic Art on its own spit, with a waterfront path, a giant Richard Serra sculpture at the tip, and the best head-on view of the West Bay towers across the bay. A flat, breezy walk with the city's finest skyline panorama.
Things to do
Museum of Islamic Art
I.M. Pei's final masterwork on its own island, a stack of cream limestone cubes housing one of the world's great collections of Islamic art across continents and centuries. The building, the bay view, and the collection each justify the trip.
National Museum of Qatar
Jean Nouvel's spectacular 'desert rose' of interlocking discs, telling Qatar's story from geology and Bedouin life to the gas era through immersive, wraparound film and artifacts. One of the most striking museum buildings anywhere, inside and out.
Landmarks & sights
Souq Waqif
Doha's restored old market, a warren of mud-rendered lanes selling spices, textiles, oud, and crafts, with a falcon souq, courtyard restaurants, and shisha cafes that fill after dark. The city's social and sensory heart, busiest and best in the evening.
Katara Cultural Village
A purpose-built cultural district of amphitheaters, mosques, galleries, and traditional architecture along the bay north of West Bay. Manufactured but genuinely pleasant, with a public beach, art spaces, and some of the city's best karak.