Photo: @tascadubai
Restaurants
A Portuguese lunch above the sea.
Tasca, José Avillez's one-star room six floors up at Mandarin Oriental Jumeira. Lunch from 12:30pm, Sunday to Friday, with the Gulf on one side.
Free with the Friday email
Free guides
Our longer lists, made small enough for a phone, with the price and how to book for every place. Sign up for the Friday email and they arrive with the welcome note.
Free PDF, 20 places
20 breakfasts worth the early start.
20 breakfast rooms across Dubai, with opening times, what to order and the price.
Free PDF, 11 places
Chef's counters and tasting menus.
Seats, sittings, price per head, deposit and dress code for 11 tasting rooms, from AED 350 to AED 2,000.
Free PDF, 11 places
Work from here.
11 cafés and quiet rooms where a laptop is welcome, with Wi-Fi, hours and the house rules we could confirm.
Photo: @alserkalavenue
This Weekend #1
Bread, art and a night at the opera.
A bread festival in Al Quoz, a Sudanese painter at the Jameel, masks and canals at the Opera, and a night above Hatta Dam. Plus Design Week, which wants booking now.
Photo: Yamanote Atelier
Coffee & Sweets
The caramel cloud from a Japanese bakery.
Yamanote Atelier's Kumo is a soft shiro pan filled with caramel, shaped like a small ghost for Halloween. AED 26.