Best Restaurants in Gulshan: A Dhaka Dining Guide 2026

For someone searching for the best restaurants in Gulshan, the quick answer is that the area’s catalogue offers a broad mix rather than one defining cuisine. Cafes, bakeries and fast food lead the numbers, while the shortlist also gives options for Korean, Thai and other international choices.

That variety makes the first decision less about finding a single signature style and more about the kind of outing you want: coffee, a quick fast-food stop or a meal focused on a particular cuisine. The catalogue covers 192 places overall, while the picks below are a smaller, rating-led selection.

Cafes are the largest listed category, with 51 places, followed by 37 bakeries and 28 fast-food spots. Those figures make a cafe or bakery a natural starting point for a casual catch-up, while fast food gives the area a substantial quick-bite option.

The next named categories are Bengali, with 10 places, and biryani and Chinese, with six each. These figures describe the catalogue’s category mix, not a ranking of food quality. In the selected restaurants, cafe choices include Awake Coffee Roasters, Banani, and two NORTH END Coffee Roasters branches; the set also includes Korean, Thai and fast-food entries.

For a coffee-focused visit, start with the cafe entries. NORTH END Coffee Roasters Borak Mehnur stands out for the largest rating count in this selection, while Awake Coffee Roasters, Banani is another cafe option with a high listed rating. NORTH END coffee roasters Concord Baksh Tower offers a second NORTH END branch in the picks.

If cuisine is the deciding factor, MOJA Korean Fusion Restaurant is the clear Korean and Asian-fusion choice in the shortlist, and Ekkamai Thai Restaurant is the Thai option. Extra crispy is listed as fast food. Almajlis Arabian Restaurant has no cuisine category listed here, so use its restaurant name rather than assuming a more detailed cuisine classification.

The ratings are not all backed by the same number of responses. NORTH END Coffee Roasters Borak Mehnur is rated 4.6 from 4,907 ratings, while Cascade Cafe is rated 5.0 from 17. A high rating with a smaller count is still worth noting, but a larger rating count gives you more responses behind the figure.

For a menu-price reference, Almajlis Arabian Restaurant has a median menu price of ৳425. That is the middle price on the menu foodee catalogued, not the cost of a meal. Treat it as a menu reference for that restaurant, not a price guide for Gulshan as a whole.

The shortlist is ranked by rating weighted by the number of ratings, using foodee’s catalogue of restaurants, menus and ratings. That approach gives greater weight to ratings supported by more responses, rather than sorting on the rating alone.

The order is a guide to where the rating-and-count combination is strongest, not a promise that one place will suit every occasion. Choose by the cuisine and type of outing that matter to you, then use the rating and count together as a comparison.