Savour the tastes of Dubai at Dubai Food Festival 2017
Every year, the shopping capital of the world arranges a festival that brings together the best of its gastronomy offerings. Titled as Dubai Food Festival, the event features a range of delicacies available throughout the city. From the hidden eateries to the most elite dining experiences, the festival reveals all the rare culinary delights most people miss during their tours to Dubai.
So, if you are perusing the latest food trends or looking for places where you could enjoy award winning fine dining experiences at good prices, Dubai Food Festival has got it all. Fortunately, Dubai’s most popular festival for foodies has already begun. But it’ll still be here for eight more days. So here is how you can make the most from it.
Visit Miele Dubai Restaurant Week
Some of the most noteworthy elements of the Dubai Food Festival are carefully hidden in the Miele Dubai Restaurant Week. This is the first item on our list because it ends on March 4 so you have only two days left to enjoy it. It is a culinary celebration of the top 15 restaurants in Dubai. Therefore you can enjoy some of their best dishes set in a three-course meal with prices starting from AED 199 only.
The restaurants participating in Miele Dubai Restaurant Week include:
- Al Nafoorah at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray
- Bread Street Kitchen at Atlantis The Palm
- Gaucho at DIFC
- Marina Social at Intercontinental Dubai Marina
- Mayta by Jamie Pesque at DIFC
- Namu at W Hotel Dubai
- Pai Thai at Madinat Jumeirah
- Rang Mahal by Atul Kochhar at JW Marriott Marquis
- Rhodes W1 at Grosvenor House
- Scape Restaurant and Bar at Burj Al Arab Terrace
- Sea Fu at Four Seasons
- Social by Heinz Beck at Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah
- The Rib Room at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray
Etisalat Beach Canteen at Dubai Food Festival
Located at the Sunset Beach, Etisalat Beach Canteen is a free-to-attend Dubai Food Festival beach club. It offers people a fiesta of entertainment, food, sport and family fun. Therefore visitors can enjoy delicious food truck dishes, home-grown restaurant concepts and unique high-end beach dining experiences.
You can test your taste buds on a variety of dishes here including the local Emirati cuisines, as well as enjoy delicious fruit smoothies. There will also be Al Islami Master classes offering delicious cuisines by celebrity chefs, beach sports and activities for children.
Dubai Hidden Gems
Dubai Hidden Gems highlights some of Dubai’s most popular restaurants and unearths some of the undiscovered restaurants. From American to Arabic, Egyptian to Emirati, one can find a variety of veritable culinary delights. People can also vote for these restaurants and get them ranked among Dubai’s top 10 hidden gems.
Taste of Dubai
Taste of Dubai is a dining and entertainment hot spot featuring home-grown restaurant concepts celebrity chefs and family-friendly activities. This also means that Dubai’s top restaurants will be participating in it. Its entertainment options will include beach football, fitness classes, and farmers’ markets. Families will also able to enjoy open mic nights, beach cinema, and children’s play areas.
The event will start on March 9 and stay for three days. It will be located at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre and there will be an entrance of AED 75 per person. Celebrity chefs participating in this event include Aldo Zilli, Luke Thomas and Reza Mahammad. Other prominent chefs participating are Michel Roux Jr., Gary Rhodes, Eric Lanlard and Tarek Ibrahim.
There are a total of 21 restaurants participating in the Taste of Dubai and the most popular among them are:
- Aubaine
- Carnival by Tresind
- Burger & Lobster
- Big Easy Bar & Grill
- Carluccios
- Cucina
- Catch
- Cook Hall
- GRK Fresh Greek
- Teatro
- Lucky Voice
- Fratelli La Bufala
- Namu
- Olea
- Ramusake
- The Gramercy
- J&G Steakhouse
- Spice & Ice
- Royal Orchid
- Sonamu
- Weslodge
There are over 200 nationalities living in Dubai and this brings diversity and creativity in Dubai Food Festival’s culinary offerings. The festival is organised by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) agency. It is part of a great strategy to develop year-round citywide festivals in support of the growth of Dubai’s tourism and retail sectors.