Cafés in Souq Waqif & Msheireb

Getting to Souq Waqif and Msheireb

Msheireb station is where the Doha Metro's Red, Gold and Green lines meet, and it is the largest station in the city.² The Red Line opened there on 8 May 2019, the Gold Line on 22 November and the Green Line on 10 December that year.² Souq Waqif has its own Gold Line station one stop away, and the Msheireb Tram connects at Wadi Msheireb.² From January 2025, trains ran until 01:00 every night of the week.³

Breakfast at Shay Al Shomous

Shams al-Qassabi, known as Shomous, sold at a 2001 exhibition for Qatari family businesses with QR500 in savings, ran a spice shop among the souq's spice traders from around 2004, and opened Shay Al Shomous (شاي الشموس) in 2014.⁴ It takes up most of the ground floor of the Bidda Hotel.⁴

Order regag, a thin bread rolled around zaatar, egg or cheese; beid tamat, egg scrambled with tomato and topped with processed cheese; or balaleet, sweet vermicelli with saffron and cardamom under spiced egg.⁴ To drink there is shay b-haleeb, milk tea flavored with saffron or cardamom.⁴

Tea rooms and cafeterias in the souq

The souq's cafeterias are plain and cheap. Teapot Cafeteria and Yathreb Cafeteria are both on Jabr Bin Mohammed Street, Cafeteria Chai Makhani is on Al Diwan Street, and Tea and jabati (شاي ورقاق) serves daily from 08:00 to 23:00. AtTEAtude Tea Lounge and Majlis, Ali Al Naama Coffee and Ahl Sharq Cafe are also in the area, and Al-Shurfa is part of the Al Jomrok boutique hotel.

Souq Waqif's restaurants generally serve until about 01:00, and its cafés and shisha lounges stay open later at weekends.⁵ At Tea Time's souq branch, karak with snacks came to about QR15–25 a visit in July 2026.⁶

Coffee in Msheireb Downtown

M7, Qatar Museums' hub for fashion, design and tech start-ups, opened in Msheireb Downtown in November 2021, with a public café on its ground floor.⁷ Profiles by Roastado is also in the M7 building; Roastado calls itself Qatar's largest and oldest specialty roastery and buys its beans directly from farms.⁸

Savant Coffee Shop, Black Rose Coffee Shop on Street 926 and Anis Cafe on Wadi Msheireb Street are nearby choices, alongside branches of % Arabica, EL&N London and The Ministry of Coffee.