Amwaj

Top seafood restaurant on Sheikh Zayed Road 2 Reviews

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

Time Out eating out awards flank this restaurant’s entrance like proud armour – the place has been highly commended by us more than once and the reasons why are instantly apparent.

Service is as sleek and subtle as the lightly nautical-themed decor, and the food is of a consistently high quality, rounding up all the usual suspects of seared scallops, whole dover sole and so on – like a kind of ‘Seafood Greatest Hits’ – with an excellent selection for carnivores. If anything, though, things here are just a little too smooth.

We’re only too aware that the limitations of Dubai’s licensing laws mean that pretty much all of the city’s finer dining establishments are located in hotels, we just don’t always want to be reminded of that fact. And that’s where Amwaj falls down. It feels too much like somewhere created to service the culinary needs of passing tourists, and not enough like a restaurant you’d single out as somewhere to go in itself.

Which is a shame, because, in every other respect, Amwaj gets it spot on.

• Previous reviews
  • 22 December,2008- reviewed by Daisy Carrington
  • 26 March,2008- reviewed by Jeremy Lawrence
  • 12 March,2007- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 15 November,2006- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 30 April,2006- reviewed by Time Out Dubai
  • 01 March,2005- reviewed by Matthew Lee
  • 01 June,2004- reviewed by Rob Orchard

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