Dubai Restaurants

  1. Eauzone

    The premier dining room at our favourite resort sits atop a vast free-form swimming pool, with decks jutting out over illuminated blue water like little islands. (Sit outside. Period.) The menu is decidedly California-Asian, incorporating European technique and drawing heavily on the flavours of the Pacific Rim. This is smart cooking, some of the best we've tasted in Dubai.

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  2. Fire & Ice

    If Michelin gave stars in Dubai, they'd surely consider bestowing one on Fire & Ice, Raffles hotel's floor-to-ceiling-brick dining room that feels strangely like a styled-out New York warehouse. The menu plays on opposites (hot-cold, sweet-sour etc), and though the highly composed presentations can get too theatrical (think pop rocks on torchon de foie gras ), the culinary acumen is spot-on.

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  3. Sezzam

    This restaurant is so huge, it almost surpasses the sight of skiers and snowboarders heading down the slopes of the adjacent Ski Dubai. With global cuisine labelled under the Flame, Bake or Steam monikers, it's really a food court with style - and a great break on a shopping excursion at this massive mall.

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  4. Spectrum On One

    The most popular brunch in town includes free-flowing bubbly and eight different buffets with six different cuisines. Phenomenal sushi. Book weeks ahead.

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  5. Vu's

    As the name implies, the views are stellar from this gorgeous tower-top white-tablecloth dining room, a favourite of wheeler-dealers celebrating the closing of a multi-million-dollar contract. The Australian-born chef weaves Asian overtones into his Franco-Italian-inspired cooking, and while it's solidly good, the kitchen lacks discipline: some dishes clash or miss entirely - inexcusable at this price.

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