Restaurants, cafés, brunches, bakeries and the food guides worth your table.
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A refined pool-and-beach club at One&Only Royal Mirage with a more composed tempo than Dubai's party-led clubs.
For The Radar, DRIFT is the elegant, grown-up option in a category often defined by volume.
A globally recognisable beach-club formula on Pearl Jumeira, built for social afternoons and music-led weekends.
On The Radar, Nikki Beach is the social, high-energy counterpoint to quieter resort clubs.
A resort-level beach day at Al Naseem, with a strong view and the service to match it.
Confirm the current access charge or minimum spend before booking, especially on weekends and during peak season.
A lagoon-side address at Park Hyatt Dubai where the best plan is to let lunch take over the afternoon.
Confirm access rules if the swim is essential to the plan, as restaurant and lagoon bookings are not always interchangeable.
Beach club in JBR.
Directory listing from the Platinum brunch list; address, phone and pin checked on 14 October. Not yet reviewed by the desk.
Beach club in Palm Jumeirah.
Directory listing from the Platinum bars & cafes list; address, phone and pin checked on 14 October. Not yet reviewed by the desk.
Beach club in Bluewaters Island.
Directory listing from the Platinum bars & cafes list; address, phone and pin checked on 14 October. Not yet reviewed by the desk.
Every week, once. Dubai, edited down to what is worth your time.
An industrial district with Dubai's strongest concentration of independent galleries, creative businesses and culture-led detours.
Dubai's financial district doubles as one of its most concentrated destinations for ambitious restaurants, galleries and late cocktails.
Dubai's headline district is most rewarding when the Burj Khalifa becomes the backdrop rather than the entire plan.
Low-rise, coastal and more residential than the skyline suggests, Jumeirah rewards plans built around the beach, design and long meals.
Tables and bars where the room does half the work: low light, a good list and no rush to turn you over.
The Saturday institution, edited: the brunches worth the afternoon.
The home cooking of the Emirates, finally in restaurants: machboos, harees, luqaimat and the coffee that goes with them.
A subcontinent of kitchens, from Bur Dubai cafeterias to tasting menus: the best Indian food outside India is an argument Dubai can make.
From the hotel trattoria to the Amalfi terrace: pasta made in the room, wood-fired pizza and the long Italian lunch.
Omakase counters, neighbourhood izakaya and the ramen shops that stay open late.
Mezze done properly, charcoal grills and the long lunch that Beirut taught the Gulf.