Max’s All About Chicken is a home-grown chain of fast-food restaurants which, according to their marketing blurb, specialises in 24-hour marinated, char-grilled and fried chicken. The brand, conceptualised by Foodmark in Dubai and Max’s Group Inc. in the Philippines, has doubled its number of branches in Dubai to four, including the one I ordered from … Continue reading Max’s All About Chicken – Barsha
Drift Beach, at the swanky One & Only Royal Mirage, is a premium beach club for the rich and privileged. It’s a place where a simple thing like a sunbed (they call them Drift Sun Loungers) can cost you anywhere between AED150 and AED200 depending on which day of the week you rent it. Located … Continue reading Drift Beach – Dubai Marina
Look up hidden gem in Dubai’s culinary dictionary and you’ll probably find Canara listed towards the very top. Tucked away on the corner of 8A street opposite the Iranian School in Karama, Canara specialises in Mangalorean cuisine, especially (but, as my lawyer friends say, not limited to) seafood. Its interior is simple, modest, spotlessly clean … Continue reading Canara – Karama
Karandi’s is a brilliant little Indian restaurant which specialises in South Indian, specifically Chettinad cuisine. There are two branches, the first and original is a stone’s throw away from Rasoi Ghar in Karama, and there’s the one I visited in Building 20 on Street 1 in Discovery Gardens. In addition to being in total compartmentalised … Continue reading Karandi’s – Discovery Gardens
Patiala House is an Indian restaurant which specialises in Punjabi cuisine and chaat. It has two branches, the original in Karama and this one at the base of the Glitz 1 building in Dubai Studio City. I’m told the restaurant was opened well before the 2011 Bollywood movie of the same name, so where did … Continue reading Patiala House – Dubai Studio City
Mughal e Azam (transl. The Great Mughal) is a Desi restaurant recently relocated from Discovery Gardens to the Zee Tower in Dubai Media City: @mughaleazamrestaurant. Either intentionally or by coincidence (which I don’t believe in), it shares its name with an epic 60’s Bollywood movie…of the same name. Two mutton curries from its extensive menu … Continue reading Mughal e Azam – Dubai Media City
It is no secret that I am a fan of the Umami restaurant chain and have visited most of their food-court based outlets throughout Dubai. So, I was quite excited when I found they had started delivering to Arabian Ranches from a delivery kitchen in Motor City. I enjoy their ramen. It’s not (nearly) as … Continue reading Umami – Motor City
Talk about extremes – I think I just had the best spicy edamame of my life at Katsuya by Starck but also the worst soft-shell crab; so bad, we sent it back. And that more or less sums up my experience there – a meal of extremes. Located in one of the most drop-dead gorgeous … Continue reading Katsuya by Starck – Madinat Jumeirah
MAXZI is as much a restaurant as it is a “food shop”. Originally opened as the e-retail arm of Indoguna, a Singaporean owned food-services provider, it has since carved out a name for itself as a top-notch eatery as well as somewhere one can source chef grade products not available in supermarkets. Its interior has … Continue reading MAXZI – Al Quoz
Daefi is the lobby restaurant at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel. It is where one usually enjoys afternoon tea and coffee – not morning breakfast. But C-19 has changed so many things in the world, the mighty Jumeirah Group included. Although ET has only recently reopened, it is not operating at anywhere close to pre-C-19 … Continue reading Daefi – Trade Centre Area
