Medina Dining Experience

About

The Medina Dining Experience is the perfect introduction to the city, offering guests a fun and interactive tour of the city’s gastronomic highlights while showcasing Medina’s cultural heritage with hands-on activities designed to entertain as well as educate. From learning how to blend your own Dukkah spices to infusing smoked water and traditionally preparing coffee. The Medina Dining Experience is not just a meal, it’s everything the first-time visitor needs to experience.

What’s included

• Coffee and/or Tea
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Bottled water

What’s not included

• Transportation

What to expect

Itinerary

The Medina Dining Experience perfectly introduces the region’s culture and cuisine, offering guests a fun and interactive tour of Medina’s gastronomic highlights. Begin your journey by learning about the traditional method of preparing Saudi coffee in the region, and how the rhythmical sounds of the Nijr are used as a welcoming signal for strangers to partake before playing a traditional Bedouin rhythm together. Next, learn about the ancient spice routes and put your sense of smell to the test, in a spice identification game before learning how to blend Saudi Arabia’s #1 spice mix, from Medina, to use on your food and take as a souvenir. Watch the ancient techniques of preparing traditional smoke-infused water. before taking your seat around a feast of famed Medini rice dishes. Finish the experience with delicious mint tea made from the many incredible mints grown locally in the region, before taking a lesson in oud, one of the most popular incense in Saudi Arabia before heading home.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Stroller accessible

Additional information 

• This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
• This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers

Regions

• Madinah