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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

If you work anywhere near the Financial Centre, chances are you’ve ended up at this pricey but exceptional restaurant for a business lunch. Hugely popular, lunch and evenings are packed with a changing crowd of suits and dish-dashed businessmen tucking into the first-rate food.

We say go for the baba ganoush – it’s unbeatably fruity and as rough and tasty as true ganoush should be. Also, grab a plate of jergier with your mezze; this is crisp and fresh rocket leaf that glistens with oil and sparks with punchy onions.

Dig into kibbeh nayeh, a speciality raw minced lamb, pounded with bulgur wheat and splashed with a blend of mint and oil. Or, if raw meat doesn’t quite do it for you, the selection of kebab plates are a hit, as is the houmous shawarma (basically houmous with meat. Portions are huge: give in to the urge to order wildly here and they’ll be carrying you out with that last meat samousek clasped between your mitts.

• Previous reviews
  • 26 March,2008- reviewed by Jeremy Lawrence
  • 11 February,2008- reviewed by James Brennan
  • 12 March,2007- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 21 February,2007- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 27 April,2006- reviewed by Time Out Dubai
  • 21 December,2005- reviewed by Matthew Lee
  • 01 October,2004- reviewed by Matthew Lee
  • 01 August,2002- reviewed by Carolyn Robb
  • 01 July,2002- reviewed by Carolyn Robb

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