Spice Grill

Spice Grill is Sharjah's answer to the Filipino-style seafood boil, a two-storey restaurant on the Al Majaz waterfront built around the shared, hands-on shell-in-a-bag format. The lower deck and the upper terrace both look out over the Khalid Lagoon, and the mood is festive rather than refined: long tables set with gloves and bibs, occasional live music in the evenings, and service with a familial warmth that has made the room a weekend draw for groups driving in from Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The menu centres on the Seafeast and Asian Sha-Bang platters - generous mounds of prawns, clams, mussels, crab, and squid tipped out with unlimited rice and a choice of sauces. The Cajun is the house benchmark, garlic-butter and salted-egg are the regular alternatives, and the kitchen will happily scale heat to order. Beyond the boils, the grilled squid comes out tender rather than rubbery, the chicken BBQ is reliable, and the tomahawk steak - sized for a table and cooked well-done as the norm - is the show-off order for celebrations. Desserts, flavoured fries, and generous jugs of fruit mocktails round out a menu that is built for sharing rather than plated dining. Value is a genuine strength: a Seafeast platter will feed three to six comfortably depending on appetite, and parking in the adjacent structure is validated for two hours. Service is warm and hands-on when the floor is well-staffed, though pace can slow on full weekends and occasional reports of inattentive shifts do surface. For families, birthday parties, and groups who want seafood eaten with both hands in a lively waterfront setting, Spice Grill delivers what it promises without pretending to be something else.