A house in Jabal Amman, face to face with the Citadel across the rooftops of downtown. Open from morning breakfast to late dinner, from a night's stay to a year's worth of Tuesdays.
Wild Jordan House sits in Jabal Amman, looking straight across at the Amman Citadel on Jabal Al-Qala, with downtown Amman filling the valley between them, in a building that has watched the city for more than twenty years and just been given new life. It holds a restaurant, five suites, three meeting rooms, a shop, and a desk that can send you anywhere else in Jordan worth going.
Jear — a restaurant that takes its name from the limestone this city is built from, and its stories from the neighbourhood around it. Five rooms, one kitchen, the Citadel in every window that matters.
Wild Jordan Suites — five rooms named for the wild things RSCN protects, four of them facing the Citadel.
Wild Jordan Meetings — three rooms for the work that's better done somewhere with a view, including one framed by a living tree growing at its edge.
Wild Jordan Events — engagements, weddings, product launches, conferences, and the kind of occasion that needs Amman behind it.
The Programme — morning yoga from 8am, art on weeknights, stories for kids on weekends. A reason to come back that has nothing to do with a reservation.
Nature Shop — everything RSCN makes, in one room you can walk into.
Reservations & Concierge — one desk that books this house and every EcoHotels address in the country.
The stone the city is built from. The word for neighbour, in the same language.
Our name is Jear. It comes from Jeari — the pale limestone that has shaped Amman for generations. It's the stone that built the city's old homes, carved its streets, and gave Amman its unmistakable glow. Look across the hills, and you'll see it everywhere. The city isn't just surrounded by Jeari; it's built from it. So are its stories.
From our windows, the Citadel rises above the city, standing on the same hills where civilisations have come and gone for thousands of years. Below, Amman stretches in every direction — a city that has never stopped growing, never stopped welcoming, and never stopped gathering people around the table.
That's the Amman we wanted to celebrate. Not one culture. Not one recipe. But the city itself. A place where Bedouin traditions meet Circassian and Chechen hospitality. Where Armenian kitchens, Kurdish family recipes, and the flavours brought by neighbours from Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Sudan have all become part of the same story. Different histories, shared tables.
Our food is a reflection of that. We don't chase trends or reinvent heritage. We take recipes that have been loved for generations and prepare them with the same respect they've always deserved — letting them feel at home in today's Amman. Because this city has always known how to honour its past while making room for what's next.
Jear is our tribute to that spirit. Rooted like the limestone beneath our feet. Warm like the homes it built. And open to everyone who walks through the door.
Welcome to Jear.
Jear isn't one dining room. It's five, each with its own weather, and its own reason to pick it.
Panorama — Fully outdoors, facing the Citadel and downtown Amman straight on. Through Amman's hot summers it's best around sunset and into the evening; the rest of the year it's open through the day too, with umbrellas against the sun and heaters against the chill. On the coldest winter nights it closes until morning — Panorama is a fair-weather room, and Amman hands it most of the year.
The View — Glass on four sides, all of it retractable, with a ceiling that opens too. It runs year-round: enclosed and warmed in winter, thrown open the moment summer arrives. Same Citadel, same downtown, whatever the weather's doing.
The Lounge — Indoors, semi-private, floor-to-ceiling glass on two sides toward the Citadel, a fireplace for the months that need one, and a corner of tables set up for kids to draw and play while the rest of the table finishes eating.
The Main — Fully indoors, with glimpses of the Citadel through the windows. The steady, everyday dining room, open through lunch and dinner regardless of season, while Panorama, The View, and The Lounge take on the evenings the weather allows.
The Café — Two long communal tables, a couch, a run of benches, and enough power outlets that nobody has to fight over one. The same view as the Lounge, meant for the hours between meals — working, studying, or just staying somewhere with a good window for longer than a coffee usually buys you.
Come for one room or move through all five over a season. Jear was built to be visited more than once.
To book your table, call us on 06 222 7737
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Five suites. Five species RSCN has spent decades protecting. One view, from four of them, that no hotel in Amman can match.
Wild Jordan Suites is five rooms, not fifty — a boutique stay built into the same building as Jear, with a seating area, a kitchenette, and a balcony in every room. Four of the five suites fill their window with the Amman Citadel. Each has its own layout, and each sleeps two in a king bed, except Oryx, which sleeps two in a pair of singles. It's built for the traveller who'd rather stay somewhere specific than somewhere large: business visitors who want to walk to a meeting, friends of Amman residents who'd rather not stay in a hotel that could be anywhere, and anyone who wants their first morning in the city to open onto the Citadel instead of a car park.
Each suite is named for a species RSCN protects in one of its reserves across Jordan — not as decoration, but as an introduction. Every room carries the story of its namesake: where it lives, why it matters, and which reserve you'd need to visit to see it for real. The reception desk upstairs can book that reserve directly. Stay in the Oryx Suite, and by the time you check out, you'll know exactly where to go to see one.
Ibex Suite — غرفة البدن
Oryx Suite — غرفة المها
Caracal Suite — غرفة الوشق
Oak Suite — غرفة الملول
Caroub Suite — غرفة الخروب
A separate seating area, a kitchenette, a balcony, and — in four of the five suites — a direct view of the Citadel and the layers of the city behind it. Upstairs, Jear for every meal you don't feel like cooking, and a shop stocked with the nature reserve products each suite is named after.
To see availability and to book a room, click here
Three rooms for the meeting that's better with a view — or a tree at the edge of it.
Wild Jordan Meetings offers three rooms for corporate teams, NGOs, training providers, and government bodies who want a venue with an actual identity — not a hotel ballroom with the lights turned up. Each room seats between 25 and 55 people depending on layout, and every one of them is catered directly by Jear, from the morning coffee break to a working lunch that doesn't feel like an afterthought.
Citadel 1 and Citadel 2 sit one floor below the street, right beside Jear's Main restaurant room; the Tree Room is two floors down, on the same level as the suites.
Citadel 1 — القلعة ١ — The smallest of the three, facing the Citadel, built for the meeting where the view is part of the pitch.
Citadel 2 — القلعة ٢ — A larger room with the same outlook, sized for bigger groups, or run alongside Citadel 1 for a larger event split across two spaces.
Tree Room — غرفة الشجرة — A meeting room framed by a living tree growing at one edge of the room. There isn't another room like it in Amman, and it tends to be remembered long after the agenda is forgotten.
Wild Jordan House isn't an events company — it's a building that happens to have three rooms worth choosing on purpose. Book the room, bring your agenda, and let Jear handle the rest.
To book your next meeting or event, call us on 06 222 7744
An engagement dinner. A wedding party. A product launch. A conference. Amman looks the part, whatever time you start.
Some occasions need more than a good room — they need a setting, whatever time of day they happen. Wild Jordan House hosts engagements, weddings, product launches, and conferences across Jear's dining spaces, using Panorama, The View, and The Lounge individually or together, depending on the size and hour of the occasion.
A conference might run nine to five, with a working lunch and two coffee breaks built in. An engagement dinner might start at five and wind down by ten. A wedding might take the space from eight until midnight. A product launch might fill an afternoon. Whenever it happens, and whenever the full venue is booked for it, Jear runs the food and hospitality for the whole day or night — the same kitchen, the same rooms, built around your event instead of a table for two.
There's a version of this building's view for every hour on the clock: the Citadel and downtown catching the morning light for a breakfast launch, the valley wide open under the midday sun for a conference's coffee break, and — once the sun goes down — the Citadel lit and downtown turned into a field of lights for the party that runs past midnight. Not every venue in Amman can offer all three. This one can.
To book your next event, call us on 06 222 7744