Restaurants, bars, festivals, food in the OAE

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Where to eat in Dubai?

Going on vacation in the UAE? Thinking about where to eat in Dubai? You will be able to satisfy your hunger as a luxury hotel restaurant, and in the little street cafes.

Because over the years, kitchen Dubai absorbed the culinary traditions of the world, the power of local institutions in addition to traditional Arabic dishes and oriental sweets, you'll find Japanese sushi, French oysters, Italian pizza, Ukrainian borscht, American burgers ...

The city has a "theme" restaurants, for example, Hard Rock Café and Planet Hollywood, and restaurant chains Trader Visc, Blue Elephant. Dubai's restaurants are renowned for the high level of service, so it's worth a closer look at Al Hadheerah, open at the hotel Jumeirah Bad Al Shams Desert (Arabian Nights are held here), as well as, Lebanese House (here you can enjoy Arabic delicacies - Blue-grill, soup of lentils).
Where to eat cheaply in Dubai?

Inexpensive meal, visit the bakery Al Shafah Bakery (there is great pizza and all kinds of buns), as well as fast food restaurants, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC, Dunkin Donuts.

Another place where you can quickly and inexpensively is a snack Student Biryani: here you can sample signature dish - biryani (basmati rice varieties with meat, fish, vegetables or eggs).
Where to eat in Dubai delicious?

Bateaux Dubai: if you want to enjoy a gourmet dinner, visit just this floating restaurant. Here you will be waiting for live music, French delights, European dishes, Arab snacks.
Rhodes Twenty 10: this restaurant offers its guests a feast of Asian and European cuisine, including meat specialties from the grill. It is worth noting here that every visitor will be able to create your own dish to suit your taste preferences, thus acquiring a unique culinary experience.
Spectrum On One: the international restaurant specializes in cooking Indian, European, Middle Eastern, Japanese cuisines. Then cook over a radio control to orders for one table was ready at the same time.
Troyka: this place is a Russian restaurant. Here you can enjoy this cuisine surrounded by walls and ceilings painted with traditional Russian subjects. And after 22:30 in a restaurant should go for live music and performances of the corps de ballet.

Gastronomic tours of Dubai

In Dubai, you can come during the gastronomic festival - this time you can visit the culinary master classes from renowned chefs and mouth-watering tastings, participate in music and entertainment events and competitions.

Modern Dubai is famous for hundreds of luxury hotels, water parks, shopping and crafts centers, exotic markets and modern boutiques, restaurants where you can enjoy Arabic and other cuisines.

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Drinks UAE

It is believed that in the United Arab Emirates is everything it can pododobrat epithet "the best", and therefore spend their holidays in the eastern tale seek more and more tourists from all over the world. Try exotic drinks UAE, climb the tallest building in the world and spend a few days in a luxury hotel, enjoying a high quality service - a minimum program for a stay in a country where every whim guest performed implicitly.
alcohol UAE

Restrictions may relate only spirits. In a country where the vast majority of residents - devout Muslims, habits, to put it mildly negative. Customs regulations prescribe restrictions on imports, which are different in different emirates. In Dubai you can take with 4 liters of any alcoholic beverages or 24 cans of beer, Sharjah is forbidden to carry more than two liters of alcohol, but you can add to this the number of pack of beer. In Fujairah, Abu Dhabi and allowed to leave for four liters of any beverage, if the passenger is not a Muslim.
These restrictions should not only take into account, but also to take advantage of the allowed amounts, if leave without alcohol can not be considered complete. The fact that alcohol UAE is not so easy to buy: the country has a very small number of specialty stores, which also can ask special permission for the purchase of the Interior. Prices in this case are quite democratic, and a bottle of good wine of France and Chile will cost $ 5-7, gin - at $ 10, and 24 bottles of beer on the 0.33-liter package purchased, will cost about $ 30 (as of 2014) .
UAE national drink

The main and most revered drink in the Emirates is definitely coffee. Its per capita consumption here - perhaps the biggest in the world. The ritual of coffee in Arabic may seem strange to most Europeans, because in the process drink three times subjected to boiling. Yet it is this recipe - the most favorite among the local inhabitants. Prepare UAE national drink in several stages:

Fill the hot charcoal special copper base.
They placed copper coffee pots "Dalai".
Roast and ground coffee is filled with water and brought to a boil in the pot first.
Then it is poured into the second vessel and recycled back to the first.
The procedure is repeated three times.

Alcoholic beverages UAE

The UAE is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol in any public place, except for restaurants in hotels. This prohibition is important to observe, in order not to offend the feelings of Muslims and not get into trouble as a considerable fine after being detained by police. All alcoholic beverages UAE purchased outside of the hotel, will have to keep in opaque bags and demonstrate to others, even by accident.

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Traditional cuisine UAE


Food in the UAE is quite expensive, as all products in the Emirates - imported. Food prices depend on where you made the purchase - in a small shop in the market or in major shopping malls, as well as from the manufacturer (supplier). For example, apples, imported from France, will cost 2 times more expensive apples imported from China.

As a rule, the menu at many hotels close to the European average, so you will always have plenty to choose from. You may want to give up the buffet and order specific meals in the restaurant at the hotel, but in this case you have to spend much more money on food.
Food in the UAE

Diet UAE residents make up the vegetables, rice, meat (lamb, mutton, beef, goat), Poultry (chicken, quail), soups, beans, fish (barracuda, mackerel, grouper), seafood (octopus, crustaceans, sharks ), dairy products (a special honor from the Arabs cheeses).

Locals love their food turmeric spice, cinnamon, saffron, add meat and rice dishes, dried limes, and in sauces for rice and stews - nuts (pistachios, almonds).

In the UAE, be sure to try a tick (kebab), kebabs, biryani (rice with chicken or meat), Gouzee (lamb with nuts and rice), hummus (vegetable paste) homos (peas, mashed with lemon), Koussa mahshi (stuffed green zucchini), donuts with honey, sherbet, baklava, Umm Ali (milk pudding).

In the Emirates, you will not have problems with food - local cafes and restaurants offer vacationers a variety of Indian, European, Mexican and other cuisines of the world; in grocery stores and supermarkets can find the same products as in Europe, and in the hotel cafe - European and Arabic food.

Where to eat in the UAE? At your service:

ordinary and fabulous restaurants where you can taste the Philippine, Thai, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Russian cuisine;
cafes and bars at the hotel and outside;
street snack (here you can buy as Arab shawarma and chicken grilled).

Drinks in the UAE

A popular drink in the UAE are coffee with spices and cardamom, tea, fruit and milk shakes.

Non-Muslims in the Emirates (exception - Sharjah) can drink alcohol (wine, beer), but not in public. You can buy alcohol in restaurants, bars, discos at the hotels, as well as in specialty stores (during Ramadan alcohol can be bought only at night).
Gastronomic tour in the UAE

Embark on a gastronomic tour of the UAE, you can not only taste the national cuisine, but also to visit the cooking classes by famous chefs to take part in the Dubai culinary carnival, having been on the music, entertainment and comedy events, as well as to take part in competitions, designed for the whole family.

Holidays in the UAE, you can get into the culinary tale and try those same dishes that are ordered Aladdin Gene.

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Cooking UAE

Kitchen UAE - this is the kitchen, which was formed under the influence of religious and climatic characteristics of the country.
Ethnic cuisine UAE

Beef, goat and other meats are usually fried in a pan without adding fat: in the UAE should try skewers of marinated beef or lamb, fried meat balls, roast beef platter.

The kitchen is famous for its fish dishes UAE. So, here regale triangular pastries (puff pastry) with fish filling ("brick"), supplementing them with lemon and herbs, as well as fish kebabs and salted fish, which is cooked with flour and spices (as a complement to the dish acts as a special sauce, which pours the fish before serving). If you want to enjoy a delicious snack, make a choice in favor of eggplant caviar (mutabbal) or manakisha - melted cheese with herbs and olives wrapped in pita bread or pita bread.

It is worth noting that the local cuisine is quite acute, as generously seasoned with sesame seeds, chilli, cumin, curry, coriander and other spices.

Popular Arabic dishes:

"Kustileta" (cutlet of lamb with herbs and spices);
"Gouzee" (a dish of lamb with rice and nuts);
"Al-Mandi '(a dish of chicken, steamed with honey);
"Samman" (dish of rice, vegetables and meat quail);
"Koussa mahshi" (zucchini stuffed with meat);
"Mehallyabiya" (pistachio pudding).

Where to try the national cuisine?

Many good restaurants are in hotels, where in addition to local dishes, prepared Thai, Mexican, Japanese, French and other dishes. Furthermore, dining options at the hotel have alcohol license, which is important for those who prefer to complement the meal liquor. It should be borne in mind that some restaurants are permitted persons over 21 years, so if your age will doubt you may be asked to show your passport.

In Dubai is a glimpse into "Mizaan" (visitors of this restaurant are treated to contemporary and classical Arabic dishes and sweets, as well as offer them a variety of drinks and shisha), or "Al Areesh" (here does not serve alcohol, but are perfectly prepared meat 4 months camel and other local delicacies).
Cooking classes in the UAE

Participate in the preparation of traditional cuisine wishing to offer cooking classes, open the hotel "Park Hyatt" in Dubai.

The trip to the United Arab Emirates can podgadat for the celebration of the Festival of chocolate (February, Dubai) or Food Festival in Dubai (February-March) - Attendees will be able to take part in the carnival and culinary events dedicated to the holiday Taste of Dubai and The Big Grill (festival dedicated grilled specialties), as well as to visit the gastronomic fair Gulf Food.