Food and Drink

best Emirati food

Eat like the locals at restaurants serving traditional recipes and inspired foods.

Aseelah

Choose from both à la carte and buffet menus while watching thrilling live belly dancing performances every night in Aseelah. You can also enjoy shisha pipes from the comfort of our stylish glass terrace.

Taste the authentic flavors of Emirati food and the richness of Middle Eastern cuisine, while soaking up local culture with belly dancing performances. This award-winning restaurant features a blend of culture, heritage, and hospitality with a modern twist. From intimate dinners to private events, Aseelah’s stylish interiors, as well as its equally beautiful glass-walled terrace, is a great venue for every occasion.

Logma

Freshly prepared every day, our sweet and savory dishes hold the pulse of the city at their heart and will make every bite feel like home and finally introduce the Khaleeji cuisine, making it more accessible and casual to the locals, expats and tourists while exposing it as an urbanized setting. Logma is proud to be Dubai’s destination for traditional Emirati & Khaleeji food, prepared with hints of modernity.

SMCCU Cultural Meals

Taste traditional Emirati food and learn more about life in the UAE at an award-winning meal at the Sheik Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding.

Enjoy traditional Emirati cuisine and conversation in our interactive cultural experiences hosted by our Emirati presenters inside the traditional houses of Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding, located in one of Dubai’s oldest communities, Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood.

Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe

With an ambience of Dubai in the 1960’s, and with the taste of Authentic Emirati Cuisine, Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe will revive the memories of Dubai when it was a small town on the shore of the Arabian Gulf at an idyllic spot close to the creek-with rows of wind towers surrounded by Al Badia oasis, with tents and Barasti huts where fishermen, pearl merchants and Bedouins lived.

A bewildering scene of the Al Badia at the External Seating greets you to see the very relaxed mood of the time-fragments of local scenes: a Bedouin tendering his flock of camel and goats; a donkey loaded with kerosene to feed the lamps of the town, an old Land Rover just parked ready to unload the goods from a long haul; the landscape dotted with tents and Barasti huts where the locals spend lazy summer nights outdoors.

The old town was a thriving city of trade where goods-from neighboring countries are brought in, traded with pearls. The trading gives the architecture of the old town a very distinctive character-rows of wind towers, tossed up on walls made of coral stones and mud, grilled wooden windows and vaulted wooden doors.

The scenes and scents bring flashes to the Wanderer’s mind as you could smell the freshly burnt bukhoor and uod as you enter the old town. An alley to the right takes you to the roofed souk where uod, bukhoor, saffron, spices and sweets are sold in the old shops; and a traditional café serving Arabic tea and coffee to the souk visitors.

Siraj Restaurant

At Siraj, we serve the best in Emirati Levantine cuisine. We’re proud to be one of the finest restaurants in Dubai offering authentic Emirati cuisine with a contemporary twist. Dubai is home to some of the most iconic skyscrapers and luxurious hotels in the world. This vibrant and dynamic city is also a melting pot of several cuisines and cultures. Yet, the eternal favorite of Dubai-dwellers and visitors continues to be the local cuisine.

Founded by Culinary Enthusiast and Event Management expert Heba Rumhein, Siraj Offers a unique menu with a blend of delicious Emirati and Levantine flavors.  A Sophisticated restaurant set within the Souk Al Bahar, the world famous Arabian Souk overlooking the Dubai Fountain, Siraj is a slick addition to the city’s vibrant culinary scene.