The Foundry: Southern Sun Abu Dhabi Turns the Steakhouse Into a Day-to-Night Dining Room

The old database missed the most useful fact

The Foundry is not a standalone Al Zahiyah steakhouse: it is the signature restaurant inside Southern Sun Abu Dhabi on Mina Street. That current hotel relationship matters because it explains the restaurant’s unusual rhythm. By morning it handles breakfast in a bright, energetic setting; at lunch it can work as a business restaurant; by evening the room becomes darker and more intimate, with copper tones, velvet and a show kitchen supporting a serious steakhouse menu. Southern Sun calls it multi-award-winning, but the more interesting quality is its flexibility. Few specialist steak restaurants are asked to change character so completely across a single day.

Serious cuts sit beside a much wider hotel kitchen

The beef selection is extensive: tenderloin, sirloin and rib-eye, grain- or grass-fed options, plus Porterhouse, T-bone and Tomahawk cuts with the expected sauces and sides. Yet The Foundry has never been only about red meat. The open kitchen and chef stations allow the hotel to build brunches and themed nights around seafood, Japanese dishes and seasonal specials. Southern Sun’s current 2026 programme includes a Thursday Japanese night valid through December, while recent guests continue to praise the Saturday Butchers Brunch and the restaurant’s handling of family occasions. That range makes The Foundry less rigid than a classic steakhouse, without losing its identity when dinner service begins.

Three services a day make this one of the city’s more useful dining rooms

Breakfast runs Monday to Friday from 6am to 10:30am and weekends from 6am to 11am; lunch is daily from 12:30pm to 3pm; dinner is daily from 7pm to 10:30pm. The hotel’s main contact is +971 2 818 4888. For Simply Abu Dhabi, the corrected classification should therefore be hotel restaurant: yes. More importantly, The Foundry deserves to be understood as a long-running Abu Dhabi dining room that has adapted rather than stood still. The steaks remain the headline, but brunch, seafood and themed evenings are what keep the restaurant relevant to residents as well as overnight guests.

Practical details

Location: Southern Sun Abu Dhabi, Mina Street, Al Zahiyah, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cuisine: Steakhouse and international; premium beef, seafood and themed dining
Telephone: +971 2 818 4888
Hours: Breakfast Mon-Fri 6:00am-10:30am, Sat-Sun 6:00am-11:00am; lunch daily 12:30pm-3:00pm; dinner daily 7:00pm-10:30pm
Editorial status: Open – hotel relationship corrected to Southern Sun Abu Dhabi