AMAYA Lounge Erbil
Erbil, Iraq · Lounge & dining
AMAYA Lounge Erbil is a lounge and restaurant in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It opened in 2025 and was the first Moonlight Investments venue outside the UAE.
It brings the upscale dining and social atmosphere of MYA to the Kurdistan market, with international cuisine in a refined lounge setting. Moonlight Investments runs it to the same standards as the Dubai flagship.
A lounge made for staying
In Erbil, the venue is a lounge. Guests come to eat, but the evening is just as much about meeting friends and staying on.
There is no Burj Khalifa outside the window here. The experience has to rest on the food, the service and the room itself. That makes Erbil the clearest test of how the group's hospitality works away from The Dubai Mall.
International cuisine in Erbil
The menu is international and written for social dining, so a table can order for the group and keep going through the evening.
The setting is refined and lifestyle-led. The team pays close attention to music and mood, and in Erbil both are set for a lounge rather than a dining room.
The MYA standard in Kurdistan
Moonlight Investments operates AMAYA Lounge Erbil. Training, service steps and quality checks come from the same playbook used in Dubai.
That shared operation means a guest who knows the group's venues in Dubai will find the same standards in Erbil, even though the format is different.
The first of two venues in Iraq
AMAYA Baghdad followed in 2026, giving Moonlight Investments two venues in Iraq. Lessons from one city inform the other, while each keeps its own character.
The group began with MYA Dubai at The Dubai Mall in 2022. MYA Cafe Cairo opens in January 2027, and MYA Saudi is in development.
Contact Moonlight InvestmentsAbout AMAYA Lounge Erbil
Yes. AMAYA Lounge Erbil opened in 2025. It brings upscale dining and a social atmosphere to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, with international cuisine in a lounge setting.
AMAYA Lounge Erbil is operated by Moonlight Investments, the Dubai-based hospitality group that also opened MYA Dubai at The Dubai Mall in 2022.
AMAYA Lounge Erbil serves international cuisine. The menu sits within a refined lifestyle setting designed for social dining.
MYA Dubai is a flagship restaurant and shisha lounge at The Dubai Mall. AMAYA Lounge Erbil uses a lounge format with international cuisine. Moonlight Investments operates both to the same standards.