The Noble House

Wagyu beef and other posh nosh at Raffles 43 Reviews

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

Last year, Noble House swept up at the Time Out restaurant awards. It’s easy to understand why, this restaurant is one of the most original Chinese dining concepts we’ve ever seen, and it offers some of the best food in the city.

However, it also offers some rather plain, overpriced dishes. Sure, black truffle dumplings, a wagyu pancake and some of the most succulent lamb ribs we’ve ever tried warrants dropping a few hundred dirhams, but the same can’t be said for average stir-fry noodles and some rather lacklustre lobster.

Still, the setting is amazing, and there is still a sense of ceremony that comes with the meal, whether it comes from a kung fu master pouring tea behind his back from a metre-long spout, or the ice cream that comes with billowing dry ice tumbling out of the bowl.

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

• Previous reviews
  • 26 March,2008- reviewed by Jeremy Lawrence
  • 10 March,2008- reviewed by Time Out Dubai staff

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Posted by: mohamed on 08 Mar ' 10 at 13:30

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

i love the food there,ill be back with my family again.

Posted by: Brian Salu on 08 Mar ' 10 at 10:34

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Chriss on 07 Mar ' 10 at 18:20

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Best Chinese restaurant ever..

Posted by: angga satria on 07 Mar ' 10 at 18:12

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Its wonderful restaurant, friendly staff, nice food, the decoration and the view so romantic.

Posted by: Andrew on 07 Mar ' 10 at 04:08

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Excellent Service and Food offerings. One of the best Chinese restaurants in town.

Posted by: Mary kiarie on 06 Mar ' 10 at 10:03

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

i would confindently recommend all my friends

Posted by: Sama Wael on 05 Mar ' 10 at 20:51

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Couldn't be better.

Posted by: Joseph John on 05 Mar ' 10 at 13:32

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

excellent food,service,ambience but a bit expensive.

Posted by: Percival on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:35

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Joseph John on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:31

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Sher on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:29

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Sarahvon on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:25

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Hanna Morris on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:23

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

One of the best services I have seen in overall Dubai, wonderful staff and delicious food.

Posted by: Hossam Belal on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:15

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

It was pleasure to dine in and really one of most important thing to watch the staff how they are acting and dealing with each other really amazing experience of course I would love to go back again and again.

Posted by: Hossam Belal on 05 Mar ' 10 at 11:14

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

It was pleasure to dine in and really one of most important thing to watch the staff how they are acting and dealing with each other really amazing experience of course I would love to go back again and again.

Posted by: Leanne Mirrey on 05 Mar ' 10 at 09:49

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Suci Wulansari on 05 Mar ' 10 at 05:21

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

The food and the service is really good. I went there when me and my husband celebrated my birthday, and they gave a surprise birthday cake. The place is very romantic.

Posted by: q on 05 Mar ' 10 at 03:19

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Airene de los Santos Endozo on 05 Mar ' 10 at 02:51

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Fantastic experience,...

Posted by: Lester Silverio on 05 Mar ' 10 at 02:49

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Best of the best... Congratulations The Noble House..

Posted by: smey on 04 Mar ' 10 at 18:05

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

the place so amazing and all the staff very friendly.

Posted by: mubarak on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:57

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: El visal on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:54

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: sot sothy on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:51

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: vasantha on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:26

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• Best for: Family friendly
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: El visal on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:20

• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: mubarak on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:18

• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: smey on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:17

• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: sot sothy on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:16

• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: vasantha on 04 Mar ' 10 at 17:15

• Best for: Family friendly
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Posted by: Wael on 04 Mar ' 10 at 15:25

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

It was very memorable experience with me and my wife and I am the regular guest there.

The Tea Master was outstanding.. Coconut Ice was incredible. The restaurant deserved a Michelin Star!! The service couldn't be better and a wonderful staff.

Posted by: Ali Khalifa on 04 Mar ' 10 at 14:30

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I had a very very good experience. Well Done.. see you soon.

Posted by: Roxanne on 04 Mar ' 10 at 14:20

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Great service and amzing food, the tea master is something you have to see in your life he is so flexible. I dined there for my husbands birthday and our server really did a great job. The views from up there are spectacular.

Posted by: seif on 04 Mar ' 10 at 14:06

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

I will sure come back again to this resturant, it's very nice place and i realy injoed it with my girl friend it's one of the best romantic places in Dubai.

Posted by: Erik on 04 Mar ' 10 at 13:55

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Had a great dinner here with my family last week! The ambience the staff and the food makes it in my opinion the best Chinese Restaurant in Dubai. I recommend this restuarant to everybody!

Posted by: Ronald Ronin on 04 Mar ' 10 at 13:43

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

The Noble House is a placed to be... Excellent food and ambience...high quality service and friendly team...

Posted by: Cindy on 03 Mar ' 10 at 19:19

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

It was the best of Chinese food I've ever had. The service was just perfect compared to the entired Dubai 5*hotel.

Posted by: Sarah on 01 Apr ' 09 at 08:30

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

The food was excellent (apart from the dessert, but that's personal choice as I don't think I've ever found a dessert I've enjoyed in a Chinese restaurant). The decor was 'interesting' - trying to be too many things at once and not succeeding in any of them. I definitely agree with the comments about the chairs - while visually appealing they were highly impractical. The lighting was poor and the floors were quite polished and slippery so going to and from the bathrooms after a glass or two of vino collapso was quite an adventure. Service was friendly, apart from the pompous sommelier, but the ambience was poor and overall we left with a feeling of 'meh'.

Posted by: ali fakha on 01 Apr ' 09 at 06:28

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

This resturant too much exaggerating in their prices as if they are the only resturant in this world.

Posted by: allen on 23 Mar ' 09 at 09:08

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

very good chinese food

Posted by: philip on 21 Mar ' 09 at 14:09

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

excellent food and service

Posted by: Morpheus on 05 Feb ' 09 at 13:08

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

There is nothing Noble about this plce.

Several months on I still have the receipt from the evening sat on my desk as a talisman to remind me never to go to another over-hyped restaurant in Dubai ever again.

Dhs 1776 for dinner for two with one bottle of wine and a bottle of water.

And it simply was not worth it.

The food was bland. I was bloated from the extra food that they keep bringing you (unasked for) between courses.

The chairs are simply rediculous - my partner had to request two cushions to enable her to reach the table - so she felt like a child on a booster seat. It was humiliating.

The designer clearly did not think about lighting - the waiters have to bring you torches to read the menu. This is not cool. This is a huge admission that the lighting is poor.

I have simply no idea why you thought it was good enough to be restaurant of the year. It is not.

Posted by: bobby chops on 26 Oct ' 08 at 13:13

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• Best for: Romantic
• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

Why why why did this restaurant receive the highest possible accolade achievable in Dubai. Perhaps it was the decor which swayed the Time Out Dubai Best Restaurant judges. Perhaps the Maxtrix's Neo-style pouring of the ginger and lemon grass tea. Or was it that the judges had partaken in one too many of the restaurants extensive - yet extortionately priced - bottles of the grapey stuff. Whatever it was, from my experience, it certainly couldn't have been the tasting menu which was average and, again, well overpriced. Nor could it have been the 'form-over-function' chairs which couldn't be accessed or exited without assistance from the over-attentive restaurant staff. I could go on - but it wouldn't be positive. Insert your own Matrix joke here, I can't be bothered ...

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