Byblos sur Mer Abu Dhabi

Byblos sur Mer is inside the InterContinental on King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street. It is a ten-minute walk from the Abu Dhabi Corniche, overlooking the water. The kitchen serves Lebanese and Middle Eastern seafood.

The dining room runs smart, echoing the hotel’s formal register, but the restaurant succeeds because it avoids the sterile glass-and-steel feel typical of the city’s newer waterfront developments. While its neighbours lean into hyper-modern trends to pull in the crowds, this kitchen keeps to traditional flavours that do not rely on reinvention. It is the better choice for a quiet, long-form meal where the food defines the evening rather than distracting from it.