Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
North Indian tandoor restaurant, hotel rooftop in Kuwait City (Fahd Al-Salem Street, St. Regis), Kuwait
Bukhara
Clay oven on the roof
The name is borrowed from the most famous kebab room in Delhi, the one at the ITC Maurya that has served the same menu since the late 1970s and fed presidents without handing them a fork. Borrowing a name like that is a promise. Kuwait's Bukhara keeps it on a rooftop, in the hotel on Fahd Al-Salem Street that long carried the Sheraton name and now flies the St. Regis flag.
The heart of the place is the tandoor. The hotel talks about tandoori served hot from a clay oven, and a 2026 listing names dal makhni, butter chicken and a biryani special alongside it. Start with whatever comes off the skewers. Then the dal, which in any self-respecting North Indian kitchen should be black, slow and buttered past the point of reason. Butter chicken is the crowd pleaser, and crowds are not always wrong. Eat with your hands where the food allows it. Nobody worth knowing will judge you.
This is hotel dining, smart casual, with prices to match, so treat it as an occasion rather than a weeknight habit. Lunch runs 12:30 to 3:30 Sunday to Thursday and dinner 7:30 to 11:30, while Friday and Saturday the kitchen goes straight through. Go after dark for the view over the city, and book on +965 2298 2042. Any Punjabi will tell you the best tandoor food comes from roadside dhabas and grandmothers. A rooftop clay oven makes a decent case for a third option.
- Order this
- Tandoori from the clay oven, Dal makhni, Butter chicken, Biryani special
- The damage
- $$$
- Go
- Dinner after dark for the rooftop view; lunch 12:30 to 3:30 Sunday to Thursday, straight through on Friday and Saturday
- Find it
- Rooftop, The St. Regis Kuwait, Fahd Al-Salem Street, Kuwait City
- Website
- marriott.com