THE OBA by Şakiroğulları
THE OBA Reserve

Al Zahiyah · Abu Dhabi

THE OBA

by Şakiroğulları

Ottoman table,
modern city.

Turquoise İznik tile, hand-hammered copper and a room that opens onto the water.

Three generations
of one kitchen.

The Şakiroğulları family has cooked over live charcoal since 1962. This is their table in Abu Dhabi.

Dinner nightly · 6pm — 1am

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The house

An oba is a gathering —
a hearth the tribe travels with.

We built ours on the Al Zahiyah corniche: a long marble hall under a hand-painted vault, turquoise banquettes, brass lanterns, and an open fire at its centre. Nothing on the menu is fusion. Everything on it is ours.

Meat is butchered in-house and rested before it ever meets the mangal. Bread is stretched to order and baked against stone. Tea arrives in a copper samovar and never stops arriving.

  • 1962Family kitchen founded, Gaziantep
  • 14hDaily charcoal burn on the mangal
  • 120Seats, plus a waterfront terrace

The mangal

Fire, salt,
and patience.

Adana, hand-minced
with the zırh.

Lamb shoulder and tail fat, red pepper from Kahramanmaraş, cut by curved blade — never machine.

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The ritual

Çay is not
the end of dinner.

It is the reason
no one leaves.

Rize leaf, double-boiled in copper, poured tavşan kanı — rabbit-blood red — into tulip glass.

“Bir fincan kahvenin kırk yıl hatırı vardır.”

A cup of coffee is remembered for forty years

Visit

Al Zahiyah,
on the water.

Address

Al Zahiyah (Tourist Club Area)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Hours

Daily 6:00 pm — 1:00 am
Friday & Saturday until 2:00 am

Reservations

+971 2 000 0000
reserve@theoba.ae

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