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1. Nando's (Shk Zayed Rd)  Portuguese (383 views)
2. Coco's (Shk Zayed Road)  Multi-Cuisine (208 views)  
3. Chili's (Al Ghurair City)  American (192 views)  
4. Hardee's (Dubai Festival City) Burgers Fast Food (167 views)  
5. At.mosphere  International Steakhouse (159 views)  
6. Mango Tree  Thai (154 views)  
7. McDonald's (Dubai Outlet Mall)  Burgers Fast Food (134 views)  
8. Paratha King  Indian Vegetarian (123 views)  
9. Krispy Kreme (Dubai Media City)   Cafe  (121 views)  
10. Nando's (The Greens) Portuguese (111 views)

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Dubai New Year celebration - Gala Dinner under the Stars @ Atlantis

Our dinner under the stars New Year’s gala dinner is a breathtaking event that will be talked about until… well, our 2012 New Year’s Eve celebration!

This magnificent event will see over two and a half thousand guests throng our one and a half kilometer Palm view beach for a truly glitzy affair.

Positioned overlooking the Dubai skyline, the location also promises a fantastic view of our awe-inspiring fireworks display at midnight.

The evening will begin with pre-dinner apéritifs around The Zero Entry Pool, setting the scene for a night to remember. The buffet style dinner features live cooking stations and barbeques, plus an expansive buffet spread with luxurious hot and cold international delicacies, all served at elegant tables by the water’s edge.

Guests can dance the night away to music from our live entertainment, and our DJ will keep the crowd going whilst providing the countdown to the New Year.

Party start from 7.30pm onwards

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Dubai New Year - on board the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)

 

The New Year's celebration in Dubai won't be the same again this year as the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), one of the most elegant vessels ever built, will be the venue for an exclusive New Year's Eve celebration in her new home Dubai.

This will be the first time she has been opened to the public for such an event.

From gourmet food, captivating entertainers, magnificent laser and firework displays, an exceptional line up of international acts (including The Gypsies, Drury Lane, and many more), to Royals, dignitaries, celebrities and VIPs, the event aims to treat guests to a unique, luxurious experience and the most stylish way to ring in the New Year of 2012.

Leili Gerami, spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth 2, commented, "In the year in which the UAE celebrates turning 40, the QE2 also enters her 40s with a new lease of life in Dubai as a fabulous venue for a glittering start to 2012."

QE2 New Year's celebration is strictly by invitation only, however a limited number of exclusive tickets will go on sale this week to the general public. A percentage of proceeds from ticket sales will be passed on to a local charity.

Ticket Prices:

AED 3,000/- VIP

AED 6,000/- VVIP

Limited Tickets Available at www.timeouttickets.com

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Media Rotana dubai new year celebration goodies

Christmas Goodies

This holiday season you have all the time in the world to enjoy that special day with a little help from your friends at Media Rotana. We will make sure you put out a wonderful celebratory meal with our special Christmas takeaway menu. Choose from holiday favourites including roast turkey, Yule logs, traditional mince pies, rich Christmas fruitcake, marzipan stollen and lots, lots more.

1. Christmas Eve, 24th December

· Channel Festive Buffet, 7:00pm - 10:30pm, AED 249 per person including standard beverages in Hotel Lobby Flipper's Kids Club, 7:00pm onwards

· Prego's Festive set menu, 7:00pm -11.30pm, AED 329 per person including standard beverages

· Nelson's Turkey Special, 12:00 noon - 11:30pm

The Terrace Christmas Toast, enjoy traditional holiday eggnog or mulled wine at The Terrace with stunning views of the city lights

2. Christmas day, 25th December

· Nelson's Christmas Brunch, 12:00 noon - 3:30pm, AED 229 per person including standard beverages

· The Terrace Family Brunch, 12:00 noon - 3:30pm, AED 259 per person including standard beverages

· Prego's Festive Lunch, 12:00 noon - 3:30pm, AED 249 per person including standard beverages

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Hakkasan Dubai restaurant-New venue of another branch

Cantonese fine-dining restaurant Hakkasan Dubai will officially open at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai International Financial Centre today (November 17).

Hakkasan Dubai is the sixth restaurant for the hotel brand globally, and the second in the UAE, the emirates’ first opened in Abu Dhabi at Emirates Palace hotel last summer.

Guests can enter the new restaurant via its long slate-stone corridor.

Hakkasan CEO Niall Howard said: “Following the success of our Abu Dhabi restaurant, we are proud to bring Hakkasan to Dubai gourmet customers.

“With its opulent décor, elegant ambience, and iconic menu, we are confident Hakkasan will become a landmark of Dubai’s fine dining scene.”

Heading the Hakkasan Dubai kitchen is Chef de Cuisine Pang Pin Lee from Hakkasan Abu Dhabi, who brings more than 10 years’ experience in gourmet Cantonese and the art of Dim Sum.

Chef Pang Pin Lee has infused his own style to the menu with new dishes that have been specifically crafted for the UAE market sitting alongside celebrated Hakkasan classics such as the Peking duck with Royal Beluga caviar, steamed dim sum platters and grilled Wagyu beef with King Soya sauce.

Since its opening in Abu Dhabi last June, Hakkasan has attracted celebrities including Uma Thurman, Morgan Freeman, and Clive Owen

Hakkasan Dubai is open daily to the public for lunch from 12pm-3pm and from 6pm-2am for dinner, drinks and bar snacks, with last dinner orders taken at 12am.

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Zen Restaurant Review

Location: Zen Restaurant, Za’abeel Park, Dubai

Review:

For a newcomer, finding gate 6 of Za’abeel Park was not the easiest battle to win considering the general lack of directions/ signage in Dubai. After locating gate 6, we then faced round 2 of our confusion; where exactly is Zen? After parking a certain distance away, we walked to the entrance and were informed that Zen was, in fact, right in front of the entrance. We were all smiles considering the appetite we had built up!

As we marched forward towards the restaurant, we noticed the obvious lush green environment and a lake that surrounds the restaurant – a great first impression. After entering Zen, there’s a certain sense of comfort that engulfs you. This could be attributed to the peaceful ambience within the restaurant, although the lack of customers was quite apparent.

To start off, we were recommended iced teas. Both the Thai Iced Tea & the Green Iced Tea with honey were quite satisfying and worth a try. Moving on to the food, we felt that the server was not very knowledgeable and fortunately the owner gave us his personal attention. I was recommended the “Laab Tofu” a salad not on the menu but specially offered to meet my vegetarian taste buds. I was definitely pleased with the suggestion! It was a perfect mix of the right spices, the results being delicious. My friends enjoyed their soups and we all savored the next recommendation from the owner – “Pad Sieu Che.” Although we normally go for the typical Pad Thai, we particularly enjoyed this dish which to summarize I would describe as Thai flat noodles. My friends also tried some Non-Veg dishes, Malays Mee Goreng, Stir Fried Noodle Chicken and Joru Che ; All fantastic dishes, savored to the last morsel!

The only area of slight dissatisfaction was the service. There was possibly only one server that night who was not the most helpful – it was the manager that made the difference.

Come October, the restaurant will offer its outdoor seating overlooking the small lake and I can already see it overflowing with Dubai’s foodies.

Overall, I truly recommend this place especially for Thai food lovers!

To summarize I could say “A truly ‘hidden’ gem!”Pricing:The bill didn’t hurt the pocket too much either and therefore Zen is easily one of those restaurants you would visit frequently.

Average price per person (including drink/starter/main course): AED 80/person.

Restaurants amidst the Economic Crisis

Since everything in the last few weeks has been tied to the “World Economic Crisis” or “Financial Meltdown” or “Global Slowdown”, I too have decided to discuss this subject in relation to Dubai’s hospitality industry.

As oil wells run dry, Dubai’s CEO, H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has decided that Dubai’s income has to come from various other sources; hospitality & tourism being the major sources of future revenues.

The Palm Islands, The World Islands, The Burj Dubai, The Burj Al Arab, DubaiLand, Dubai Mall are some of the major projects that are a result of the CEO’s directive to increase future income from tourism. As you can expect, hundreds of hotels have been and will be constructed to accommodate the millions of tourists expected every year. “Build and they will come” being the bold philosophy of the leader in command.

With such gigantic projects and limitless future plans, even the small cafeteria owner down the road has started to think big. He knows that if Dubai’s ruler’s plans are to succeed, then his field of business will grow tremendously. Thus he ponders a location for his next cafeteria/ restaurant. Similarly, entrepreneurs all around the world want a piece of Dubai’s boom. As a result, Dubai now has over 1200 restaurants all over the city spoiling the foodies for choice. Many of these restaurants have opened in the last few years and are located in Dubai’s prestigious new areas, some being part of the best hotels in the world.

In fact, in a recent conversation with a newbie in Dubai, she explained that her favorite way of acquainting herself with the different districts of Dubai is by visiting popular restaurants in these areas (by browsing by location on www.MenuPages.ae ). In fact, if you are keen to experience any new real estate developments, whether it be a new hotel or a new mall (or even a new island J), the best way to do so is to dine there. That is of course, if you manage to get a table at your restaurant of choice. Whether it is a weekday or the weekend, restaurants have been busy all year around as Dubai’s residents have, in simple terms, become wealthier. Considering the basics of economics, as investments poured in to Dubai, jobs were created, demand for products and services increased, businesses were booming, thus increasing each earning individual’s spending power. Shopping and dining were where the residents splurged their extra income. In fact, shopping and dining are sometimes termed the two main “national pastimes”. Tourists visiting Dubai also splurge on shopping and dining.

So now what? Meltdown, crisis, collapse – how’s this going to affect restaurant business? Being the part time economist that I (and most people today are), I will offer my theory with a disclaimer that I could be wrong.

My theory:
The simple answer to my question would be that restaurant revenues will definitely be affected. However, you would probably shoot me if that was the objective of my entire article. So, I have a twist to my insight.

The culture of eating out cannot be washed away so quickly. It may reduce a little but I believe there will be a slight downgrade in the choice of restaurant rather than refraining from eating out altogether. Location will be another key element to ride out the recession. In my opinion, there may just be a certain segment of restaurants that may actually benefit during the current crisis. A reasonably priced restaurant close to an above average neighborhood might just see a surge in business, particularly because “value for money” is now the most important attribute. A reputation for good food at a good value may actually increase its popularity overall because all of a sudden the royal service requirements, the right lighting or the exquisite interiors for the jobless real estate broker aren’t important anymore. It’s suddenly all about VFM. This might just be the chance for such restaurants to propel themselves into lifelong popularity using the recession as a spring board for future success. If they build a name now, they would have a chance to build a strong brand for the future. Ever thought about how Al Mallah might have become as popular as it is today? You’ve got the spendy population in Jumeirah looking for some reasonably priced food in proximity of their residence. Voila!

So for all the entrepreneurs itching to exploit the low costs during a recession, my recipe for success is a slice of vision, a pinch of effort combined with my VFM theory mixed with proximity to an upper class location. If it doesn’t work, just look for the disclaimer in my article :)