One of downtown Amman’s oldest and most beloved restaurants, a modest, no-frills room near the old Palace of Justice that locals swear serves the city’s best mansaf — Jordan’s national dish of lamb slow-cooked in fermented dried-yoghurt (jameed) sauce, heaped over rice and shrak bread. The menu runs deep into traditional Jordanian and Palestinian cooking (fawareh, karshat, hummus) and finishes with hot, cheese-filled kunafa. Filled with regulars, not tourists — exactly the point.
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King Hussein St 8, Downtown Amman · traditional Jordanian/Palestinian · famed mansaf & kunafa · local favourite