Mina Zayed, the city's port: the fish market with cook-your-catch kiosks, the fruit and vegetable souk, the dates market, and chef-led rooms such as ryba and TETTO beside kunafa, ice cream and coffee shops.
ryba is a Michelin Bib Gourmand seafood restaurant at Zayed Port in Al Mina, Abu Dhabi, from chef Faisal Alharmoodi, grilling local catch over charcoal.
OrderCharcoal-grilled local hammour, then the chocolate pâte à choux Michelin names as the signature dessert.
TipA Sunday set menu is AED 350 for two, according to tbreak's 2026 price check, and the restaurant is a short walk from the Zayed Port fish market.
TETTO is a chef-led restaurant in MiZa, Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi that grew from a home supper club, serving seafood, grills and pasta close to the chefs.
OrderThe bluefin tuna tartare, the hoba sea bass or the San Marzano burrata rigatoni, all named by FACT magazine.
TipTables sit close to the kitchen for a front-row view; the room is closed on Monday and opens at 16:30 on the other days.
Asyak Grill cooks Persian charcoal grills at Zayed Port in Al Mina, Abu Dhabi, with koobideh, hamour barg and mixed grill platters made for sharing.
OrderKoobideh or the marinated hamour barg, the two dishes the restaurant names on its own site.
TipWhat's On describes super-sized grills designed to share, so one mixed grill platter suits a table of friends.
Naeem Sweets at Marsa Mina, Abu Dhabi, is the kunafa shop of a Jordanian maker who opened on Hamdan Street in 1974 and reopened here at the age of seventy.
Worth the queueKunafa
TipGulf News says the owner still comes in at 15:00 every day and stays until 21:00, and the shop uses ingredients from Denmark and the Balkans.
Auro Coffee in Souq Al Mina, Abu Dhabi, roasts beans sourced from its own Ethiopian farms and serves them in a Mina Zayed cafe open until midnight.
BeansEthiopia
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail
TipThe team will talk you through the blends, and bags of beans can be bought to take home from the Souq Al Mina cafe.
Mina Fish Market in Al Mina, Abu Dhabi, lets you pick fish at a stall, have it cleaned for about AED 16 for 3 kg, then cooked at a kiosk or restaurant.
TryFish cleaned and grilled to order
TipMost stalls are cash only with ATMs at the entrance, and a weekday morning avoids Saturday queues of an hour or more at the cleaning counter.
Mina Zayed Fish Market in Abu Dhabi holds fish stalls, cleaning stations and eight restaurants in one building next to the site of the old market.
TipPick a fish, then take it home raw, have it cleaned, have it cooked at a kiosk, or skip the stalls and order from a market restaurant's menu.
Al Mina Fruit and Vegetable Souk, across the road from the fish market at Mina Zayed in Abu Dhabi, sells fruit and vegetables by the kilo or the box.
TipVisit Abu Dhabi lists the Mina markets as one daily 08:00 to 22:00 block; Best Bites (April 2026) says the other Mina markets will shift to the new Modon souq.
Abu Dhabi Dates Market in Mina Zayed is a run of shops selling dates, dried fruit and nuts, where vendors hand out dates and Arabic coffee to sample.
TipA vendor told The National (February 2026) that khalas is the top seller in Ramadan; visitors mostly buy medjool and ajwa, mainly from Saudi Arabia.
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