Mosul comes alive at the nightly Nabi Yunus food market

MOSUL, August 12 — While most of Mosul city gets ready for bed, the Nabi Yunus night market comes to life, getting ready to feed the town’s night owls searching for a bite to eat from 1 a.m. until the early morning hours.

More than 30 different restaurants offer an array of popular dishes that showcase Mosul’s rich culinary heritage, making it one of the city’s most renowned markets.

Among the foods offered in the market are eggs scrambled with tomatoes and onions, stews served over naan bread, grilled meats, sandwiches, hummus, local pastrami, a popular pastry and cream combo called kahi and qaymar, lentil soup, and meat pies.

Ahmed Gareeb, café owner in the restaurant section, told 964: “We open the café every day at midnight and continue until the next evening. Customers arrive after 1 o’clock, with many opting for kahi and qaymar for their morning meal.”

Ghadeer, the owner of a famous sandwich shop, said: “Our customers include both locals, and Iraqi as well as foreign tourists. Our prices are reasonable.”

Prices in the night market range from 1,000 Iraqi dinars for hummus platters to 4,000 dinars for a meat-based dish called tashreeb.