Nezesaussi - Restaurant Award Highly Commended

Sports-friendly bar food near Burj Dubai 2 Reviews

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

Nezesaussi has great grub, but, aesthetically, it is an odd thing. It feels rather like the Al Manzil Hotel ordered a grubby sports bar online, but upon opening the wrapping paper found that they’d received something rather classier and had to step up the rest of it to match.

As a result, the bar has the TV screens, cheesy memorabilia and middle-aged, glassy-eyed punters of a standard sports bar, but also a fancy open cooking station and sizeable wine rack.

Perhaps as a result of this, they hid it away at the side of the hotel, behind a café that interested punters must walk through. We just can’t think of another explanation. Still, if you get past the confused decor, you’ll find a lot to commend about the place.

The staff are prompt and attentive without being suffocating, and the food – which is a mix of South African and Australian-themed dishes, along with the morbidly fascinating-sounding ‘monkey gland’ sauce – is, on the whole excellent, if a little highly priced. And no, the sauce isn’t actually made from monkey glands, it’s a type of South African barbecue sauce. Phew.

By Time Out Dubai staff
Time Out Dubai, 17 March 2009

• Previous reviews
  • 26 March,2008- reviewed by Jeremy Lawrence
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Posted by: Billy Bob on 24 May ' 09 at 18:23

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

Probably the only sports bar in the Burj Dubai area and among a handful that properly adhere to the theme in Dubai. The place is therefore full for big matches. Unfortunately, the management and staff are quick to show you how aware of that they are. The head manager is perhaps the most uncultivated disrespectful individual i have come across since i came to Dubai 2 years ago. I was spoken down to repeatedly when i tried asking different waiters if my friends and i could put two tables together. Eventually i decided to speak to the manager about the treatment i was getting, but to my surprise, he said: "that's the policy. If you don't like it, leave!". Shocked, i tried to figure out how he thought it appropriate to speak in such a tone but he looked away and rolled his eyes!
Can't begin to explain how offended my friends and i were. Would we go back to this restaurant? Never!

Posted by: dannie pm on 01 Apr ' 09 at 19:50

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

time out need to look again this is the place where if you want really good excellent food you go. whatever the ward neze is the best. and they will ever be. sevice extremely good but to say it again round the best food in any pub in this town great job to the chef i see him deligently passing food while i enjoy the ribs good job real value left bank can't beat this

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