Abu Dhabi Restaurant for Sale - Turnkey Opportunity
Discover a prime location for your new venture with this turnkey restaurant, perfectly located in a high-footfall location.
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Prime Location | Turnkey Setup | Proven Footfall
Discover a turnkey restaurant for sale in the heart of Abu Dhabi city center. This fully operational and licensed quick-service establishment boasts a loyal customer base for both walk-in and delivery orders. With a high-footfall location, it offers options for dine-in, takeaway, and delivery. Immediate takeover is possible for interested buyers.
Executive Summary
This opportunity presents the acquisition of a turnkey restaurant located in a high-footfall location within Abu Dhabi’s 18 km city core. The restaurant specializes in authentic South Asian / Pakistani cuisine and operates across various channels, including dine-in, takeaway, catering, bulk orders, and all major delivery platforms. The business transitioned to an independent brand in March 2025, enabling higher margins, operational flexibility, and significant potential for future expansion. This is not a startup; it is a validated Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale with proven customers.
Is this the right opportunity for you?
This opportunity is best suited for:
An individual or family buyer looking to enter or expand in the F&B business in Abu Dhabi should consider this opportunity for an Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale. This option offers a proven location with established footfall, making it ideal for those who prefer not to start from scratch. Additionally, an existing restaurant brand or operator can take advantage of this high-footfall location to expand quickly, minimizing the risks, delays, and capital overruns typically associated with a new build.
This opportunity is not suited for passive investors seeking short-term ROI; rather, it is designed for buyers who prioritize certainty, location quality, and long-term growth, making it a perfect fit for anyone interested in a turnkey restaurant.
WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY IS DIFFERENT
Most Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale listings focus on selling ‘current profit.’ This opportunity offers certainty and includes: a proven location, established daily footfall, trained staff and systems, as well as licenses, approvals, and operations already in place. This makes it a turnkey restaurant, removing the highest-risk phase of opening a restaurant in Abu Dhabi.
Location Advantage
The Abu Dhabi city center is: Geographically small, highly dense, and severely supply-constrained. The entire high-density commercial zone spans an 18 km radius. In this sought-after area, good locations are rare, making an Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale in a high-footfall location incredibly valuable. New buildings often come with overpriced rates, while older buildings might face municipality cancellation and eviction risks. This location has been meticulously chosen and validated based on prior experiences with forced relocation due to building non-compliance, a common but costly risk in Abu Dhabi. You are purchasing a turnkey restaurant in a well-maintained, compliant building that enjoys consistent walk-ins—something extremely hard to replicate today.
Market Opportunity
Total Addressable Market: 800,000 Pakistanis & Indians (18–60 yrs) Serviceable Market: 16,000 families Accessible Market: 3,200 families Average family spend: AED 100+ per visit Realistic revenue potential: AED 250K–320K/month under focused management. With its status as the least saturated and highest-income city in the UAE, Abu Dhabi presents an excellent opportunity for a turnkey restaurant, especially in a high-footfall location.
Why not build from scratch?
To establish a turnkey restaurant in a high-footfall location similar to this one, the realistic cost is AED 1.2 million just to reach square one:
AED 150K–200K key money
AED 600K–700K fit-out & equipment
AED 100K licenses, visas, setup
AED 100K rent during build & approvals
AED 180K first-year operating losses
Plus time, delays, and uncertainty
This Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale skips all of that.
BUSINESS SNAPSHOT
Area: 2,700 sq. ft
Location: Main Al Falah Street, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Annual Rent: AED 210,000
Services: Dine-in, Takeaway, Delivery
Employees: 13
Visas: 14 (including owner visa)
Average Monthly Sales (2024): AED 220,000
Net Profit / EBITDA (2024): AED 360,000 per year
Built-up Cost (CAPEX): AED 1.2 million
Asking Price: AED 1.6 million
Assets: This turnkey restaurant is fully equipped with all necessary equipment, licenses, and approvals included, making it an ideal opportunity for anyone looking for an Abu Dhabi restaurant for sale in a high-footfall location.
Frequently Asked Questions
For those who understand the realities of Abu Dhabi market, AED 1.2M is the real cost to reach “square one” when building a similar restaurant from scratch:
- AED 150K to 200k key money is a norm for a shell and core at a good location
- AED 600K to 700K fit-out, furniture, approvals, kitchen equipment, signage
- AED 100K licensing, visas, and setup
- AED 100K (6 months’ rent during build + approvals)
- AED 180K (first 6 months of operating losses, typical)
- Additional miscellaneous & contingency costs
The premium you pay is for a fully functioning, already validated restaurant location that bypasses all these challenges.
You can buy a cheaper place, but you will spend your first year fixing what’s broken rebuilding the brand, customer base, and credibility from scratch. And the biggest question you need to ask yourself is what if it doesn’t work! With this restaurant, you are stepping into a business that already has momentum and loyal footfall. It’s a higher upfront investment, but you’re buying stability, location, and growth potential rather than uncertainty.
And remember: location is the biggest predictor of a restaurant’s success. If a location has already failed once, what are the chances it succeeds the next time?
Prime restaurant locations in Abu Dhabi’s city center are extremely rare. The high-density zone is only an 18 km radius, and suitable commercial units are limited, old, and very hard to secure.
We first set up at another location in Abu Dhabi city and the building was cancelled by Abu Dhabi municipality after 12 months! Therefore, had to relocate to this location, carefully selected a well-maintained building to prevent the same mistake.
This is very common in Abu Dhabi market. New buildings are overpriced due to the limited availability, and the cheaper available options are in old buildings where you risk cancellation and forced eviction! We’ve already done the hard work of finding and locking in a proven, high-footfall spot, something that cannot be easily replicated today.
Key money, fit outs, and licensing are just the baseline.
What you are really paying for is the established customer base and validated footfall that has taken years to build. This dramatically reduces operational risk and shortens the path to predictable revenue.
You are paying for:
- A proven, high-footfall location
- Loyal customer base
- Established delivery presence (Talabat, Noon, Careem, Deliveroo, Keeta, own website for online ordering with recurring sale)
- Existing walk-in traffic
- Zero setup delays
- Zero trial-and-error losses
- Well maintained building significantly lowering the risk of forced eviction
- Brand recognition
- A platform that can be grown or franchised (trademark already registered; inbound franchise enquiries exist)
You are buying certainty, speed, and time, things no new setup can offer.
Abu Dhabi’s city center is small, dense, and highly supply-constrained.
Prime units rarely become available, and once secured, their value increases significantly.
This makes a proven, high-footfall location far more valuable than similar spaces in wider, less dense emirates.
Because all the heavy lifting has been done. You avoid:
- 6 to 12 months of losses during runway
- Delayed inspections and approvals
- Heavy marketing spends to build awareness
- Location uncertainty
- Staff hiring and training challenges
- Trial-and-error operational mistakes
You step into a running operation with predictable traffic from day one.
Yes, for an existing brand expanding into Abu Dhabi, it is a no-brainer.
For a passionate first-time owner seeking to minimize failure risk, the business offers a realistic path to AED 30,000 to 40,000 monthly EBITDA under focused management.
It removes the most difficult parts of entering the F&B market: finding the right location, building footfall, securing licenses & approvals, hiring staff, learning by trial & error, producing recipes from scratch and establishing repeat customers.
On average, you save:
- 6 to 9 months of construction, approvals, licensing
- 6 to 12 months to build footfall (provided your new recipes make customers keep coming back)
- Hundreds of hours searching for the right location
You start on day one with customers already walking in.
Yes. Footfall has been built consistently over years.
The location’s density and repeat traffic support stable monthly revenue.
For example, Talabat shows a 77% retention rate.
Because the restaurant has been operating for years in the same unit with consistent walk-ins and delivery orders. This isn’t projected or hypothetical, it’s validated in real market conditions.
With an agreed transition period, you can take over almost immediately. Systems, and staff are fully in place.
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