Tokyo@The Towers in Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai - Restaurant Reviews

Tokyo@The Towers

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2008

Located in the centre of the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Boulevard, this Japanese eaterie will get all of your senses tingling. First there is the entertainment – except that’s not really what it is; it’s the chef cooking your dinner on a hot plate in front of your very eyes.

If you book ahead, make sure you’re sat ringside, and prepare to be amazed as the man in the tall hat twirls his knives and slices with lightning-quick precision, spinning salt, pepper, dressing and spices, then scooping up and dropping the results directly onto your plate.

There are three set menus on offer – basically meat, seafood or surf ’n’ turf, which is the best of both worlds. Each begins with a hearty miso soup, complete with melt in the mouth tofu, followed by a salad of green leaves and seaweed, and shrimp or tempura depending on your choice.

A sashimi platter of salmon, hammour and snapper may also find its way to your table. But it’s the selection of scallops, salmon, lobster tail, prawns, vegetables and steak, sliced and diced and sizzled in front of you, that proves the highlight here, the chef occasionally vanishing behind a whoosh of smoke and flame. And every piece of juicy soft meat is divine.

The lobster and steak in particular are worthy of crossing chopsticks over with your dining partner. Finish with a serving of smooth red bean ice-cream, featuring tiny bean pods that just burst in the mouth.

By Time Out Dubai Staff