Mahyouf: lamb neck, shank or rib machboos, all at one price

A Kuwaiti kitchen in three malls that grills seabass over wood and charcoal and sells hakooka at 950 fils

30 October 2026 Food 2 min read

Mahyouf serves Kuwaiti food in three malls: The Avenues, The Warehouse and Al Khiran Mall. Breakfast runs from 9am to noon, then lunch and dinner from noon to 11pm, and to midnight at the weekend, according to the restaurant’s own account.

Basmati rice is cooked in a spiced stock made from the same meat, then topped with saffron rice and hashew, a mix of caramelised onion and chickpeas. It comes with mabooch and ajar pickles, and a choice of marag or daqoos tomato sauce.

Lamb neck, lamb shank or lamb rib: all three cost KD 7.950.
Chicken machboos: KD 5.450.
Zubaidi mutabbaq, made with fresh pomfret: KD 12. The seabass version is KD 7.250.
Shrimp mumawash with green lentils and a tamarind daqoos: KD 7.250.
Mandi on smoked maza rice: KD 5.450 with chicken, KD 7.950 with lamb ribs.

From the Kuwaiti pot

Harees is whole wheat cooked with lamb and beef, finished with cinnamon sugar and ghee. Jareesh is crushed wheat with lamb, beef, dried black lime powder and onion. Both are KD 3.450.
Gaboot is a dough parcel stuffed with desert truffle, meat, caramelised onion and chickpeas in a tomato sauce: KD 4.950.
Muhammar, a sweet rice with sugar, saffron and cardamom, is KD 2.500. Hakooka, the crisp crust of basmati rice with onion and spices, is 950 fils for three pieces.
Date bread with sesame and nigella seeds, served with salted butter: KD 1.250.

The grill and the shoulder

Boneless seabass is grilled over wood and charcoal in a Josper oven, stuffed with onion and tamarind, for KD 8.500; baby chicken from the same oven is KD 4.950. The roast lamb shoulder feeds 3 to 4, with potatoes, carrots and two portions of rice chosen from muhammar, saffron or white rice with hakooka, for KD 29.500.

The menu lists its meat as Australian, slaughtered in Kuwait.

Photo: chicken machboos with dried black lime, an illustrative image not taken at Mahyouf. By Miansari66, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Source: Mahyouf’s official menu on FineDine and the restaurant’s Instagram account (hours, branches, latest post 26 October 2026), both read 29 October 2026.