Dubai Restaurants

  1. Fudo

    Fudo is a funky independent café with a delightfully eclectic interior, and a menu to match, spanning Thai, Japanese, Italian and Lebanese. Not just another standard multicuisine eatery, this place has enough spunk to pull it off. The cool outdoor lounge is sheesha heaven at night.

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  2. Olive House

    While this stylish little place has a bit of an identity crisis (is it a bakery, Lebanese restaurant, delicatessen, or pizza place?), the food's uniformly good - as is the coffee. The pizzas are fresh, wonderful wood-fired numbers and the manaeesh (Middle Eastern dough topped with cheese or zaatar or ground meat) are the tastiest around.

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  3. Splendido

    Tall palms sway in the breeze around the outdoor patio at the Ritz-Carlton's northern Italian restaurant, an ideal spot to hold hands by candlelight. It's not as formal as you'd expect - linens are cream, not white - and the cooking is more trattoria style, earthy and rich as in the morel-and-porcini-mushroom ravioli in a pan-reduced brown sauce. Pastas are perfectly al dente, and the tiramisu feather-light.

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