Restaurants

Enjoy The Comforting Menu At Cascades It’s the architecture that gives this restaurant the real wow factor, as you are seated under a soaring atrium. When it comes to food, Cascades offers a tempting array of international dishes, from Arabic mezze to signature salads, grilled meat and seafood. If you happen to be in the vicinity of the Fairmont Hotel, the restaurant makes the perfect escape for lunch. It’s both modern and stylish, with a comforting menu to match.

Set in Dubai’s International Financial Centre (DIFC), The Gramercy is a comfortable venue to meet friends, clients or colleagues after work. This restaurant serves hearty cuisine, as well as an array of beverages. This is a more than relaxing place to eat lunch or dinner while enjoying some jazz beats in the background.

Explore Sushi Art, a Japanese concept restaurant with locations at Dubai International Financial Centre and The Beach at JBR. The sushi is inspired by award-winning chef Thierry Marx’s imaginative approach to sushi. Sample the menu of sustainably sourced fish, with inspirational twists including sea bream kiwi tartare, spicy cucumber salad and a regularly changing collection of rolls. Sushi Art is a lunchtime hub for DIFC workers, and is usually pretty quiet in the evenings.

Hakkasan, located in the iconic Jumeriah Emirates Towers, serves fare that incorporates traditional techniques using fresh local ingredients with contemporary dishes that retain the essence of conventional Cantonese cuisine. It is certainly hard to restrain from the roasted silver cod and crispy duck salad amid rustic wooden pavilions, lush exotic greenery and the Michelin-star chain’s signature oak latticing. The Hakka Brunch, which takes place every Friday, features an expansive selection of dishes: steamed, fried and baked dim sum, delicate Peking duck and handcrafted desserts and homemade sorbets. +971 4 384 8484