🍜 Food & Drink in Ulaanbaatar

A popular stir-fry grill restaurant where diners fill bowls with raw meat, vegetables, and sauces before watching skilled chefs cook it all on an enormous circular iron grill. A Mongolian cultural experience in its own right and extremely popular with local families for weekend lunches.

📍Peace Avenue, Ulaanbaatar 14200, Mongolia

A long-established Mediterranean restaurant in a beautiful heritage building near Sukhbaatar Square, with excellent lamb dishes, mezze, and a wine list that is remarkably good for Ulaanbaatar. The candlelit interior and professional service make Casablanca the go-to choice for business dinners and special occasions.

📍Sukhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar 14200, Mongolia

A large covered central market in downtown Ulaanbaatar with a ground floor of fresh Mongolian produce - dried meat, fresh vegetables from the eastern steppe, local cheese, and fermented products - and upper floors of clothing and household goods. The most practical daily market for visiting foreigners in the city center.

📍Central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

A bustling, authentic Mongolian-Chinese restaurant that serves the food Ulaanbaatar residents actually eat - tsuivan dry-fried noodles with beef, bansh tiny dumplings in soup, goulash, and the best homemade airag fermented mare's milk in the city. Cheap, crowded, and completely real.

📍Peace Avenue, Ulaanbaatar 14200, Mongolia

The best traditional Mongolian restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, serving beautifully presented versions of khorkhog (stone-cooked mutton), boodog (roasted whole marmot), tsuivan noodles, and huushuur fried dumplings in an elegantly designed ger-inspired interior. Modern Nomads proves Mongolian cuisine can be genuinely world-class.

📍Seoul Street 10, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The largest market in Central Asia - an overwhelming bazaar of everything from traditional Mongolian cashmere and del coats to Chinese electronics, Russian military surplus, spare horse parts, and entire ger sections. A full day immersive experience in Mongolian commercial culture and the best place to buy authentic souvenirs.

📍Naran Tuul Street, Bayanzurkh District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

A well-decorated restaurant on the upper floor of the State Department Store with panoramic views over Sukhbaatar Square and a menu blending Mongolian, Central Asian, and Russian cuisine - reflecting the three cultures that have most shaped Ulaanbaatar. The beef pelmeni and lamb lagman are standouts.

📍State Department Store, Peace Avenue 44, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The famous Soviet-era multi-floor department store on Peace Avenue that has been the commercial heart of Ulaanbaatar since 1956, now housing hundreds of small shops selling Mongolian cashmere, silver jewelry, traditional musical instruments, and fermented horse milk. Essential architecture, fascinating shopping.

📍Peace Avenue 44, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar 14200, Mongolia

A popular evening food market near the TV Tower district with dozens of Mongolian street food stalls serving buuz dumplings, tsuivan, khuushuur fried pastries, roasted mutton skewers, and horse milk airag. The most accessible and atmospheric outdoor food experience in Ulaanbaatar.

📍TV Tower area, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The finest Western restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, serving dry-aged Mongolian beef - some of the most flavorful grass-fed meat in the world - cooked on a Josper charcoal grill. Mongolian cattle roam freely on the steppe their entire lives, producing beef with exceptional marbling and a distinctive grassy richness.

📍Seoul Street, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

A large market hall dedicated entirely to Mongolian cashmere products - raw fleece, spun yarn, finished garments - at prices far below anything in the boutique shops for the same quality cashmere. Mongolia produces 40% of the world's cashmere and the best deals in the country are at this market.

📍Ulaanbaatar 14200, Mongolia