The premise of Summer Restaurant Week is simple. Dozens of restaurants across Dubai will serve subsidised set menus for 10 days, from August 23 to September 1.
Breakfast is priced at Dh69, a two-course lunch menu costs Dh95 and a three-course dinner is Dh150. But are all the deals worth your dirhams?
With the set lunch menus offering the highest discount, here we break down the original and subsidised prices of the most expensive dishes available this year, and which restaurants offer the biggest savings.
Savings more than Dh200
En Fuego
The lively South American restaurant in Atlantis The Palm is a bona-fide fine-dining affair, with the sea bass tiradito priced at Dh130 and the seabream encocado priced at Dh190 on the a la carte menu. Both dishes are part of the Summer Restaurant Week set lunch meal, priced at Dh95, as with all the others on this list.
Save: Dh225
Savings more than Dh100
The Beach Grill
The salmon rillette on the a la carte menu at the Address Beach Resort restaurant is priced at Dh98, while the pan-seared sea bream with charred broccolini and garlic lime emulsion goes for Dh188.
Save: Dh191
Shamiana
The fine-dining Indian restaurant at Taj JLT usually charges Dh105 for its chicken tikka and Dh125 for the Alleppey fish curry. The set lunch menu also includes a complimentary pani puri amuse-bouche, usually priced at Dh55.
Save: Dh190
Chival Global Social
The restaurant at La Ville Hotel & Suites in CityWalk is usually a pricey affair, with the shrimp and avocado salad priced at Dh85 and Dh185 for the lamb rump.
Total savings: Dh175
Beefbar
The steakhouse in Jumeirah Al Naseem Hotel offers substantial savings in its Dh95 set lunch menu for Summer Retstaurant Week, given its a la carte menu offers the braised Wagyu quesadillas for Dh98 and its mains (steak frites, lemon chicken or sea bass) cost Dh150 a pop.
Save: Dh153
Casa Mia
The Italian restaurant at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre offers fine-dining fare usually priced at Dh70 for the spinach salad with pear, candied walnuts, goji berries and Gorgonzola; and Dh175 for the corn-fed chicken with roasted potato.
Save: Dh150
Sirali
The Turkish restaurant at Al Habtoor City typically charges Dh59 for its gavurdag salad and Dh173 for the lamb chops.
Save: Dh137
Isola
The Bodrum import serves Italian fare, with prices ranging from Dh92 for the burrata to Dh122 for the agnolotti pasta with tuna and zucchini cream.
Save: Dh119
The Boardwalk
The Mediterranean restaurant at Dubai Creek Marina charges Dh80 for its salmon carpaccio and fried calamari, which are the two appetiser options on the Summer Restaurant Week menu. The mains of corn-fed chicken and fish n chips, meanwhile, are usually for Dh130.
Save: Dh115
Andaliman
The a la carte prices of dishes at the Indonesian restaurant at One&Only One Za’abeel range from Dh75 for the asinan pindang seafood strips to Dh135 for the ayam bakar spicy whole chicken.
Save: Dh115
Bellini Cafe
The cafe at Mr C Residences Jumeirah typically charges Dh105 for an endive salad and Dh100 for its pappardelle Bellini.
Save: Dh110
Palm Kitchen
The multi-cuisine restaurant at Taj Exotica serves two of its Restaurant Week-listed starters for Dh85 a pop – the gnocchi dumplings with Parmesan and the shish tawook. The Angus beef burger, its most expensive main, meanwhile, usually goes for Dh120.
Save: Dh110
Roaring Rabbit
Also located at Taj Exotica, the gastropub has the loaded nachos and garden salad as its appetiser options on the Restaurant Week menu, both of which are usually priced at Dh80; while the black Angus burger and lamb hotpot mains go for Dh125.
Save: Dh110
Savings more than Dh50
11 Woodfire
The Michelin-starred restaurant specialises in wood-fired cuisine, and charges Dh85 for its seabass carpaccio and Dh105 for its boneless chicken thigh with Asian spices and adobo.
Save: Dh95
Sal’s Bistro
The restaurant in Jumeirah Islands Pavilion is known for its surf and turf options, and offers its crispy salmon salad for Dh90 and the Bistro Angus burger for Dh95.
Save: Dh90
Motorino Pizzeria
The JBR restaurant usually charges Dh85 for each of the three appetisers listed on the Restaurant Week lunch menu (prawn Caesar salad, fritto miso and buffalo mozzarella with tomatoes), and Dh98 for the spicy soppressata picante.
Save: Dh88
Soon
The Japanese restaurant in JLT charges Dh55 for its prawn gyoza and Dh120 for the mud crab udon noodles.
Save: Dh80
Ballaro
The Italian restaurant in Conrad Dubai serves its cheesy arancini for Dh65 and charges Dh95 for the Risotto alla Milanese on its a la carte menu.
Save: Dh65
Savings under Dh50
Pascal Tepper
The French bakery on Sheikh Zayed Road offers its Caesar salad with turkey bacon and chicken breast for Dh55 and its beef steak with herb butter and steak fries for Dh88.
Save: Dh48
Long Yin
The Chinese restaurant at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre typically charges Dh50 for a plate of chicken wantons and Dh85 for a hammour fillet in a sauce of your choice.
Save: Dh40
Lila Wood-Fired Taqueria
The Mexican restaurant on Jumeirah Beach Road typically charges Dh60 for its chips with salsa and guacamole and Dh75 for its skirt steak tacos.
Save: Dh40
BB Social Dining
Part of the multi-vendor Time Out Market, the “bao, bowls and bites” restaurant typically serves its salmon crispy rice for Dh53 and black cod bao for Dh69.
Save: Dh27
Reif Japanese Kushiyaki
Chef Reif Othman’s restaurant at Time Out Market prices its seafood gyoza and salmon maki – both appetiser options on the Summer Restaurant Week menu – at Dh50, and its famed chicken katsu sando at Dh68.
Save: Dh23
Arabian Tea House
The Emirati restaurant in Dubai’s Al Fahidi neighbourhood typically serves its mixed sambousa for Dh37 and lamb machboos for Dh75.
Save: Dh17
Who has lived at The Bishops Avenue?
- George Sainsbury of the supermarket dynasty, sugar magnate William Park Lyle and actress Dame Gracie Fields were residents in the 1930s when the street was only known as ‘Millionaires’ Row’.
- Then came the international super rich, including the last king of Greece, Constantine II, the Sultan of Brunei and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal who was at one point ranked the third richest person in the world.
- Turkish tycoon Halis Torprak sold his mansion for £50m in 2008 after spending just two days there. The House of Saud sold 10 properties on the road in 2013 for almost £80m.
- Other residents have included Iraqi businessman Nemir Kirdar, singer Ariana Grande, holiday camp impresario Sir Billy Butlin, businessman Asil Nadir, Paul McCartney’s former wife Heather Mills.
Hunting park to luxury living
- Land was originally the Bishop of London's hunting park, hence the name
- The road was laid out in the mid 19th Century, meandering through woodland and farmland
- Its earliest houses at the turn of the 20th Century were substantial detached properties with extensive grounds
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Price, base: Dh1 million (estimate)
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Fuel economy, combined: 15L / 100km
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Strait of Hormuz
Fujairah is a crucial hub for fuel storage and is just outside the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route linking Middle East oil producers to markets in Asia, Europe, North America and beyond.
The strait is 33 km wide at its narrowest point, but the shipping lane is just three km wide in either direction. Almost a fifth of oil consumed across the world passes through the strait.
Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the strait, a move that would risk inviting geopolitical and economic turmoil.
Last month, Iran issued a new warning that it would block the strait, if it was prevented from using the waterway following a US decision to end exemptions from sanctions for major Iranian oil importers.
RESULTS
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Bantamweight
Mohammed Adil Al Debi bt Moaz Abdelgawad
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Amir Boureslan bt Mahmoud Zanouny
Featherweight
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Super featherweight
Ibrahem Bilal bt Emad Arafa
Middleweight
Ahmed Abdolaziz bt Imad Essassi
Bantamweight (female)
Ilham Bourakkadi bt Milena Martinou
Welterweight
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Middleweight
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Welterweight
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
Who was Alfred Nobel?
The Nobel Prize was created by wealthy Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel.
- In his will he dictated that the bulk of his estate should be used to fund "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
- Nobel is best known as the inventor of dynamite, but also wrote poetry and drama and could speak Russian, French, English and German by the age of 17. The five original prize categories reflect the interests closest to his heart.
- Nobel died in 1896 but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will, before the first prizes were awarded.
Tributes from the UAE's personal finance community
• Sebastien Aguilar, who heads SimplyFI.org, a non-profit community where people learn to invest Bogleheads’ style
“It is thanks to Jack Bogle’s work that this community exists and thanks to his work that many investors now get the full benefits of long term, buy and hold stock market investing.
Compared to the industry, investing using the common sense approach of a Boglehead saves a lot in costs and guarantees higher returns than the average actively managed fund over the long term.
From a personal perspective, learning how to invest using Bogle’s approach was a turning point in my life. I quickly realised there was no point chasing returns and paying expensive advisers or platforms. Once money is taken care off, you can work on what truly matters, such as family, relationships or other projects. I owe Jack Bogle for that.”
• Sam Instone, director of financial advisory firm AES International
"Thought to have saved investors over a trillion dollars, Jack Bogle’s ideas truly changed the way the world invests. Shaped by his own personal experiences, his philosophy and basic rules for investors challenged the status quo of a self-interested global industry and eventually prevailed. Loathed by many big companies and commission-driven salespeople, he has transformed the way well-informed investors and professional advisers make decisions."
• Demos Kyprianou, a board member of SimplyFI.org
"Jack Bogle for me was a rebel, a revolutionary who changed the industry and gave the little guy like me, a chance. He was also a mentor who inspired me to take the leap and take control of my own finances."
• Steve Cronin, founder of DeadSimpleSaving.com
"Obsessed with reducing fees, Jack Bogle structured Vanguard to be owned by its clients – that way the priority would be fee minimisation for clients rather than profit maximisation for the company.
His real gift to us has been the ability to invest in the stock market (buy and hold for the long term) rather than be forced to speculate (try to make profits in the shorter term) or even worse have others speculate on our behalf.
Bogle has given countless investors the ability to get on with their life while growing their wealth in the background as fast as possible. The Financial Independence movement would barely exist without this."
• Zach Holz, who blogs about financial independence at The Happiest Teacher
"Jack Bogle was one of the greatest forces for wealth democratisation the world has ever seen. He allowed people a way to be free from the parasitical "financial advisers" whose only real concern are the fat fees they get from selling you over-complicated "products" that have caused millions of people all around the world real harm.”
• Tuan Phan, a board member of SimplyFI.org
"In an industry that’s synonymous with greed, Jack Bogle was a lone wolf, swimming against the tide. When others were incentivised to enrich themselves, he stood by the ‘fiduciary’ standard – something that is badly needed in the financial industry of the UAE."
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Wednesday (Kick-offs UAE)
FC Copenhagen (0) v Istanbul Basaksehir (1) 8.55pm
Shakhtar Donetsk (2) v Wolfsburg (1) 8.55pm
Inter Milan v Getafe (one leg only) 11pm
Manchester United (5) v LASK (0) 11pm
Thursday
Bayer Leverkusen (3) v Rangers (1) 8.55pm
Sevilla v Roma (one leg only) 8.55pm
FC Basel (3) v Eintracht Frankfurt (0) 11pm
Wolves (1) Olympiakos (1) 11pm
UAE Rugby finals day
Games being played at The Sevens, Dubai
2pm, UAE Conference final
Dubai Tigers v Al Ain Amblers
4pm, UAE Premiership final
Abu Dhabi Harlequins v Jebel Ali Dragons
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Islamophobia definition
A widely accepted definition was made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims in 2019: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” It further defines it as “inciting hatred or violence against Muslims”.
UFC Fight Night 2
1am – Early prelims
2am – Prelims
4am-7am – Main card
7:30am-9am – press cons
