Rhodes Mezzanine - Restaurant Award Highly Commended

Gary Rhodes's restaurant at the Dubai Marina is a Dubai classic, but is it worth the cash? 7 Reviews

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

Dine at Rhodes Mezzanine and you’ll feel like you’re in heaven… or at least in one of those Philadelphia ads from UK TV in the ’90s. Everything is white.

The walls, the tables, the uniforms of the expert and friendly staff. Pink and orange baroque furniture and luminous Perspex bring splashes of colour. It’s surreal, but beautiful.

An amuse bouche of a deliciously creamy yet sharp white tomato soup and bread rolls with melting butter make a great start to an incredible meal. There are only eight main dishes, but you will still struggle to choose between the beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish options.

If you can’t decide, there is a taster menu where you can sample small portions of any number of the dishes, and all are as exquisite as the halibut with creamy crab risotto, the salmon with buttered spinach, or the divine pork belly.

But dessert is where the British dishes really come into their own. Bread and butter pudding, jam roly poly and a jaffa cake (no, not the ones you can get from Spinneys) come on the dessert platter, each utterly delicious.

The chef seems to think you haven’t indulged enough, however, and offers you some soft, warm scones with cream and jam along with your frothy coffee. It seems dining at Rhodes Mezzanine, in many ways, is heaven.

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

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Posted by: Tom B. on 09 Jun ' 09 at 12:44

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

I stayed at the grosvenorhouse hotel last july and had a meal in the rhodes mezzanine restaurant it was absoulately first class,infact it left the burj restaurants looking like 3star food outlets.Yes i would go back the food was amazing well presented and the staff could not have made us more welcome .The decor wasfantastic and the glass room for private occasions complemented the restaurant

Posted by: simone on 01 Apr ' 09 at 08:03

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

An amazing experience from start to finish - this place is a stand out because it manages to shine in amongst all the glitz of Dubai. It is in a hotel so doesn't offer views of the ocean or any romantic thing but if you are a seasoned diner looking for a thrill, this could very well be it. Appetizers and mid-course suprises throughout (starting with the white tomato soup - how do they do that!?) and impeccible service as well as some groovy interior design makes it a very unique place and well work a splurge.

Posted by: Bernadette Bularan on 19 Mar ' 09 at 16:42

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

Smart frefined dining with great ingredients put together in the most appetizing way possible. Service is disciplined. Wine choice is impeccable.

There might be traffic jams outside, but it's ambrosia inside Rhodes.

Posted by: Juan on 18 Feb ' 09 at 17:50

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

I found this restaurant to be good value considering all the accompaniments and freebies given but then again value is relative and at the end of the day and I guess it just comes down to quality which this place has in bucketloads. The staff are amazing and the food top notch. I would recomend to anyone!

Posted by: Carol on 18 Feb ' 09 at 08:50

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

This is my favourite restaurant in Dubai and the quality of food is better than Verre. The service is excellent and the standard and quality of food is great. It is expensive, but seeing as most restaurants here serve overpriced food and drink, I don't mind paying extra for a good quality meal. I look forward to going back again soon.

Posted by: shane on 16 Feb ' 09 at 11:33

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

I would totally agree that the atmosphere is superb but the price is absolutely absurd. And on the people should be a little more flexible. still can say that the place was fab.

Posted by: Monika Wiesner on 11 Jan ' 09 at 12:38

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• Would you go back to this restaurant? No

This experience was totally disappointing. We really were looking forward having dinner at this place which is very famous and is said to be one of the places where you have to go. Once we arrived - I have to admit that we were late 15 minutes due to a traffic jam - we were told that we have to wait for another hour until we can be seated at our table. The reasons were not really clear but we accepted as we know that there's a fabulous bar in the same place. So one hour later we came back to the restaurant and were seated at our table. I don't want to discuss the interior design or ambience as it's really a personal taste but the food ... I don't find proper words to describe the food ... If I would have been served this quality and style of food in any casual, cheap eatery I would have been totally satisfied and fine ... But in such an expensive and highly praised place it was totally inacceptable and frustrating. To cut a long story short: absolutely no fancy dinner and totally over-priced. The value for money is really poor. I also would never expect a place of this category to ask me to come back in one hour for running late by 15 minutes - especially if the whole restaurant is empty.

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