If you’re wondering where Amman’s fashionable set go to escape their own cuisine, look no further than this glass-and-steel restaurant with a lovely terrace near Abdoun Circle. It offers an extensive and imaginative menu, though we've always found the pizzas and salads particularly good. There's beer on tap plus a good wine list.
Blue Fig Café
Amman
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