El Lifo!

Friday or what felt like Sunday to us, and Jenny, Julie (a French girl who started work at the same time as Jenny), and I headed east, up and down some crazy roads to a town called As Sifa where a new resort has been built called Jebel Sifah - about a 40 minute drive from Muscat. Just after you enter this resort, there is a restaurant on the left called ‘As Sammak’ which means ‘The Fisherman’. The setting of this place could not be more beautiful as it is literally on the beach, surrounded by amazing mountainous scenery. It is open air and so we had a lovely breeze blowing in keeping us pretty cool. Given the temperature was 39C, the breeze was very welcome. 

The menu, whilst relatively small, did not disappoint. Julie and I shared a calamari and a grilled jumbo prawn dish. Look at the size of those prawns!!

This was accompanied by a selection of green salad, babaghanoug, tahini, rocket salad, and arabic pita and washed down with an amazing mango fruit juice.

The salads were very tasty and the rocket had a sweet balsamic syrup on it.  The service was excellent and friendly and the food tasted extremely fresh and looked amazing on the plate. The table next to ours ordered the catch of the day which also looked amazing and is a good reason to return here in the near future.

The bill came to 24 OMR for fish fingers and chips, calamari, jumbo prawns and the sides I talked about earlier along with 3 fresh fruit juices, namely mango, pineapple and a lemon and mint combo.

I am also excited to say that I have also found a new food wife, having left my estranged food wife, Sinead in Chicago. Jenny has a number of interests but unfortunately for me, seafood, cheese or anything that is not shaped like a burger and doesn't taste like a burger, has no place in her heart, hence today she enjoyed fish fingers and chips from the kids menu. Seriously!

Dinner was followed by a lovely dip in the Arabian Gulf and a short drive back to Muscat. As far as weekends go that one wasn’t half bad. As a friend of mine Barry would say “this is the lifo”