Senyar

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Senyar, also at the newly-opened Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, should be a bar that works. Its clean, white, two-tiered space is stylish (red accent furniture, exotic vodka bottles sunk into an illuminated white wall, the requisite outside terrace) and, on the night we visited, was buzzing with an excitable after-work crowd. The list of cocktails is extensive and imaginative; there are a fair range of (expensive) wines and, in between the usual draught beer suspects, a few surprises like the winningly tasty Weiss beer.

But something is missing. It doesn’t help that, for all its careful design, there’s an indefinable sense of ‘hotel lobby’ about the space. Or that the live music was just another interchangeable man-and-guitar covers ‘band’. There was no food available on the night we visited, adding a side-order of rumbling-tummed dissatisfaction where the tapas selection should have been. But even that taking that into account, we still weren’t won over. Don’t visit on an empty stomach.

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