Al Maskoof, an Iraqi place in the Al Mareija area, is my second favorite restaurant in Sharjah. Each table has a big wooden bowl on it and waiters walk around and make sure you always have a piece of khobz tanoor (bread made in a tanoor oven) in your bowl. Their kabob is a highlight--you can watch a guy behind glass grinding big pieces of lamb, shaping the ground meat onto skewers, and putting the skewers in a big open-flame oven. Behind another glass is a fire pit (also open flame) where they cook fish; they also boil their tea--everybody gets free tea after dinner--on the same embers.
Worked up an appetite walking much of the city--around the lagoon along the corniche, through the Qasbah and all the parks that circle the water downtown, back to the "heritage" area where all the old souks are. Highlights were DEFINITELY the livestock and fish markets. First the livestock market, where the guys selling goats were willing to help me practice my Arabic:
And the fish market:
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