What’s it like:This new Lebanese eatery is a hidden gem tucked away in the Emirates Financial Towers building in DIFC. When I visited the glamorous, yet relaxed, restaurant on a weekday evening, it was quite crowded even though it was…

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What’s it like: First of all, I’d like to point out this restaurant isn’t just another steakhouse. It’s a New York-style brasserie which offers premium cuts of meat, as well as seafood. Here you can sit at the bar and…

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What’s it like: Located in the charming, fairy light-adorned alfresco haven that is Century Village, this achingly hip restaurant recreates a little slice of New York in Dubai. With exposed concrete walls and pillars made from packing crates, the interiors…

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What’s it like: This casual eatery nestled on the bustling Jumeirah Beach Residence Walk offers a refreshing take on Arabic food, with a focus on the farm-to-table concept – they source most of their ingredients directly from the farmers, including…

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What’s it like: It’s all too easy for Dubai restaurants to over-kill on bling, but this one manages to strike that perfect balance between understated subtlety and glamour, with its sparkling crystal chandeliers, shiny chrome staircase leading to the upstairs…

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What’s it like: Most people associate Portuguese food with just piri-piri chicken. But this eatery, popular with Brazilians, Angolans and Portuguese – a sign that it is authentic food – features other highlights from various regions of the country. Wooden…

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What it’s like: A refreshing new addition to the Dubai dining scene, this restaurant not only introduces a new and relatively lesser known cuisine to local punters (I mean, do we really need another fine dining Italian restaurant here?), but…

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What’s it like: If massive buffet tables groaning under the weight of too much food is not your style, and brunch with table service is more up your street, then this is the one for you. Provided you love meat…

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What’s it like: You are greeted at the entrance of this brand new hotel by a vibrant living wall draped with greenery that you just can’t resist touching! The restaurant, on the other hand– is nowhere as tropical, with its…

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Like everything else at this hotel, the restaurant oozes understated luxe – plush carpeting, silk curtains, crystal chandeliers and a subtle beige colour scheme all of which come together to create an ambience that is on the sophisticated side of glam.

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Rang Mahal, which literally translates to Palace of Colours, is inspired by traditional North Indian architecture, and as such, boasts high ceilings, oversized pillars with traditional temple-style engravings, and a giant Rajasthani Madhubani painting across one wall...

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It’s only natural for The Oberoi, Dubai, to have an Indian restaurant – being part of an Indian chain of hotels...

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