A personal blog detailing dining and eating experiences
We went to this restaurant for a late lunch after visiting the Jumeirah Mosque.
Got a latte, and garlic butter shrimp for an appetizer.
For mains, ended up doing their take on Italian (as you may notice the cuisine I put for this restaurant is Arabic) did the truffle penne pasta with chicken, and a chicken pizza. Overall, food was meh (wasn’t bad but would choose another place to eat). I will say the layout of the restaurant was nice.
This restaurant was my first kitchen table experience. And gotta say, had a really great time. Each meal was served by a different waiter, and they all were fully engaging. They described every meal and drink.
As a friend put it, this place was more about the drinks, and the food was the actual pairing to the drinks.
Some other notes is that this place is from the same group as Alinea, and they do recommend drinks back and forth. Also, my three favorite foods from below is the pea soup (had real crab meat), the scallops, and the scallion fritters.
Here is the complete menu:
Went to this place as the last drinking stop of the night.
One highlight is that they have a page in there menu that talks about prohibition in the US, and if you shine a blue light on it, a secret drink shows up on it (it was called the red old fashioned). The secret drink was not that great though (because there was red pepper unit).
The main drink that was great (in both presentation and taste) was Beauty and the Beast. Look at the pic below!
The first drink I got was also pretty good (I forget the name, but it had white chocolate covering the rim, and some truffle mixed in it).
