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The operator needs to accept the date, group and menu before you travel." } } ] } ] } ], "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Embrace Doha: Souq Waqif food tour**]()\n\n## Embrace Doha: Qatari cooking & Arabic coffee\n\nCook chicken majboos and share the meal, or book a shorter Arabic coffee ceremony in an Al Wakrah majlis.\n\n[Plan this experience]()\n\n[Explore the story]()\n\nCost **Cooking QAR 500 · coffee QAR 150**\n\nTime to allow **Cooking: 3 hours at the house, approximately 4½–5½ hours with central-Doha travel. Coffee: 1 hour at the house, approximately 2½–3½ hours with travel. Extra souq time is optional.**\n\nPlace **Zone 4, House 157, Souq Al Wakrah**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### Embrace Doha: Qatari cooking & Arabic coffee\n\nChicken majboos is the centre of the cooking class at Embrace Doha. You work through roasting, chopping and mixing, learning how spices shape the dish before sitting down to eat what you have made. With three hours devoted to the class and shared meal, it gives Qatari food a whole afternoon of your holiday.\n\nThe setting is a cultural house inside Souq Al Wakrah. Rough plaster, timber doorways, woven rugs and patterned majlis cushions make it a different experience from a hotel cookery studio. The house’s wider work brings visitors into conversation about Qatari culture, with food and hospitality offering an easy way in. Ingredients and equipment come with the cooking session; the group is limited to ten.\n\nThere is a shorter way to take part here too. The separate Arabic coffee ceremony lasts an hour, following coffee’s history and trade routes, the spices used in the drink and the etiquette of sharing it in a majlis. It suits someone who would enjoy a hosted conversation and tasting without spending three hours at a cooking session. Coffee is a separate reservation, rather than an extra automatically included with the majboos class.\n\nA little time in the old souq works well around either visit. You can explore the lanes and waterfront after the session without adding another city crossing, then meet your return driver at an agreed souq entrance. The public family beach is a different stop farther south and needs a road transfer. For a shorter outing, book the coffee ceremony and return directly to your hotel.\n\nGive the cooking class a free day. Al Wakrah is south of Doha, while the Grand Prix circuit is well to the north; combining the two would add a long cross-city journey. A confirmed class and a car home make a much better companion-day plan.\n\n![Geometric majlis cushions and woven rugs inside Embrace Doha]()\n\nMuseums & heritage **Embrace Doha: Qatari cooking & Arabic coffee** Doha and Lusail\n\nTimber doorway and covered passage at Embrace Doha in Souq Al Wakrah\n\nGeometric majlis cushions and woven rugs inside Embrace Doha\n\nPatterned finjan cup and coffee service in Embrace Doha’s majlis\n\nChicken majboos served at Embrace Doha’s cultural house\n\nSharing a traditional meal in Embrace Doha’s cultural house\n\nLuqaimat at a cultural-house meal; menus depend on the booked session.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\n#### Cost & admission\n\nAllow QAR 500 per adult for cooking; obtain the total party price and minimum booking before paying. Ingredients, equipment and the shared cooked meal are included. The separate coffee ceremony costs QAR 150 per person; confirm the selected session’s price. For two adults, cooking allowance QAR 1,000 or coffee QAR 300, plus estimated central-Doha outward and return cars of ≈ QAR 150 per vehicle: ≈ QAR 1,150 for cooking, or ≈ QAR 450 for coffee. Booking both separately: ≈ QAR 1,450 if the sessions can share the same car outing. West Bay both car legs: ≈ QAR 195; Pearl/Lusail ≈ QAR 250. These car allowances exclude waiting, extra stops and traffic surcharges. Hotel transfers and insurance are separate unless expressly included in your booking.\n\n#### When to go\n\nAdvance booking for the agreed session date and start time. Cooking lasts three hours; the Arabic coffee ceremony lasts one hour. No fixed race-week departure or walk-in class is promised.\n\nCooking: 3 hours at the house, approximately 4½–5½ hours with central-Doha travel. Coffee: 1 hour at the house, approximately 2½–3½ hours with travel. Extra souq time is optional.\n\n#### Getting there\n\nZone 4, House 157, Souq Al Wakrah\n\nBook the session, then use its House 157 arrival instructions. Take a taxi to Souq Al Wakrah parking or the named road entrance and walk through Zone 4 to the cultural house. Allow roughly 35–50 minutes by road from central Doha or 45–70 from West Bay/Pearl/Lusail, plus 10–15 minutes to find the house and arrive before the session. For rail, take the Red Line train marked Al Wakra, not Hamad Intl Airport T1, then a separate local taxi to the souq. Visit Qatar lists bus 127 as a connection; use its current route and timetable only if it serves your session. The Metro does not reach the house.\n\n[Get directions]()\n\n#### Before you book\n\nContact +974 5006 4472 or comms@embracedoha.com for the specific cooking or coffee session. Cooking maximum ten; coffee maximum 35. Obtain the date, start time, party total, minimum numbers, language and any child ages before paying. State dietary requirements before the menu is accepted. The published cancellation policy allows a full refund until 24 hours before the local start time, with no refund afterwards; the operator can cancel for bad weather or insufficient bookings and refund the session. Your dated confirmation governs the purchase. Race-week availability remains to be confirmed.\n\n[Visit the venue or operator]()\n\nThe advertised class prepares chicken majboos. Give the operator allergies and dietary requirements in advance, including spices, stocks, dairy, nuts and shared equipment. A vegetarian or vegan class is not automatically available. Coffee contains caffeine; discuss a suitable alternative where needed.\n\n#### Your return journey\n\nAgree a named souq road entrance or parking pickup with your driver and allow the walk back from House 157. A direct car returns to your own hotel in Souq/Msheireb, Old Al Ghanim, West Bay, [The Pearl]() or Lusail; each district has a different fare and drive. For Metro, take a local taxi back to Al Wakra station, then a northbound Red Line train towards Lusail, changing at Msheireb for Gold/Green Line hotels. Include the last usable train and the final hotel approach. Allow ≈ QAR 55 per vehicle for the two station–souq car legs plus QAR 4 per adult for two standard rail journeys and any travel-card purchase. If the session or souq meal ends too late for that connection, book the direct hotel car. A class reservation does not reserve your return vehicle.\n\n#### Accessibility\n\nThe house is listed as wheelchair accessible, with accessible public toilets about two minutes away. Arrange the actual souq drop-off, threshold route and toilet access with the team. Majlis floor seating and a cooking station require separate discussion: request a chair, suitable work height, rest space or assistance before paying. The advertised building access does not establish an adapted cookery station.\n\n#### Dress code\n\nWear practical clothing and closed shoes for cooking, with modest dress suitable for the cultural house and souq.\n\n### Location & nearby places\n\nExplore around Embrace Doha: Qatari cooking & Arabic coffee\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Embrace Doha: Qatari cooking & Arabic coffee: frequently asked questions\n\n01 Can I combine Embrace Doha’s Qatari cooking class and Arabic coffee ceremony?\n\nEmbrace Doha’s cooking class and coffee ceremony are separate bookings. Ask whether the team can schedule both on your date and quote the combined party price; the cooking price alone does not include the ceremony.\n\n02 Is Embrace Doha’s cooking and coffee experience at Souq Waqif?\n\nEmbrace Doha’s cultural house is House 157 in Souq Al Wakrah, south of Doha. The operator’s walking food tour is a different experience at [Souq Waqif]() .\n\n03 Can I arrive without a booking for an Embrace Doha cooking class?\n\nArrange the Embrace Doha cooking class first. The operator needs to accept the date, group and menu before you travel.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Doha and Lusail\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site]()[← All things to do]()\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting." }