Best Restaurants in Al Majaz, Sharjah

Al Majaz wraps the western shore of Khalid Lagoon and holds Sharjah's most walkable stretch of restaurants, anchored by the Al Majaz Waterfront promenade and its musical fountain, with the Al Qasba canal closing the district off to the south. Sharjah is a dry emirate, so the dining here is built around family restaurants, grill houses and lagoon-facing cafés rather than licensed venues — a genuinely different scene from neighbouring Dubai. Rather than rely on neighborhood tagging that isn't populated in our data yet, this list is built by matching each restaurant's verified GPS coordinates against a real map boundary for Al Majaz — an honest, location-verified ranking rather than a guess.

  1. Al Mashawi Al Halabya Sharjah — Sharjah — Trust Rating 96/100, Current Pulse 96/100, based on 34,532 aggregated reviews.

  2. Spice Grill — Sharjah — Trust Rating 94/100, Current Pulse 94/100, based on 4,051 aggregated reviews.

  3. Bangkok Town — Sharjah — Trust Rating 89/100, Current Pulse 89/100, based on 1,580 aggregated reviews.

  4. Al Bait Al Baghdadi Restaurant — Sharjah — Trust Rating 88/100, Current Pulse 88/100, based on 2,535 aggregated reviews.

  5. Auberge Cafe — Sharjah — Trust Rating 84/100, Current Pulse 83/100, based on 563 aggregated reviews.

  6. Grub Shack — Sharjah — Trust Rating 76/100, Current Pulse 75/100, based on 248 aggregated reviews.

  7. Saravana Bhavan — Sharjah — Trust Rating 72/100, Current Pulse 72/100, based on 1,552 aggregated reviews.

FAQ

How do you decide which restaurants count as "Al Majaz"?

We match each restaurant's verified GPS coordinates against a lat/long boundary drawn from Al Majaz's real map extent — from the Al Qasba canal in the south up to the edge of Al Qasimiah, and east to the Khalid Lagoon shoreline. Any restaurant we track in Sharjah whose coordinates fall inside that boundary is included, rather than relying on a neighborhood field in our data that isn't populated yet.

Does this include Buhaira Corniche and Al Majaz Waterfront?

Yes. Buhaira Corniche runs along the Khalid Lagoon shoreline through this area and the Al Majaz Waterfront promenade sits inside it, and neither is tracked as a separate district in our data, so their restaurants appear in this list rather than being split into their own.

How is the Trust Rating calculated?

Trust Rating (0–100) is a volume-weighted average of normalised ratings from Google and TripAdvisor — see our methodology for full detail.