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This restaurant is located in the lobby level in Novotel. We had gone here for iftar and they had a set menu for AED 140. It was quite crowded the day we went. The food looked appetising when we had a look before the iftar started. There was a selection of dates and dryfruits, salads and cold starters, soup, hot starters, mains and dessert. When we actually started serving the food in our plate and having it, it tasted average. It wasn't bad, but we were certainly expecting more. The salads were plenty and did taste fresh and nice - fattoush, tabbouleh, hummus, eggplant salad, pasta salad, potato salad, chickpea salad, muhammara and more. The shawarma sandwich (rolls) was dry and below average. There were three types of meat for the grills. This too was average, and tasted a bit dry. There was ravioli too, and that tasted good. I also liked the Ouzi here. There were some good desserts too. I liked the cakes, and the umm ali. At the end of the meal, we were

Being from India, as soon as I hear "pao", I get excited because it is something that we strongly associate with street-food. I couldn't wait to try out this place when they invited me here.  It is not a very big place, but they have done it up well with some nice walls and a desi touch to it.  Their concept is basically having various stuffings inside a pao; just like vada-pav but much more interesting. Before getting onto those, we called for an appetiser that really caught my attention - the kurkure bhindi - crispy fried okra. I'm a fan of bhindi and hence easy to please with it. It was served hot, not too oily, and with green chutney on the side. The chutney itself was also good, not too thin and watery. but thick and spicy. I took a bite of the kurkure bhindi, and almost finished it in no time.  They have a good selection of veg as well as non-veg paos.  The non-veg one that we had was the O'Triple Schezwan Pao . It has desi Chinese Chicken, egg,

This is definitely the place where I have seen the widest range of kulfi offerings, and I was eagerly looking forward when I was invited to try out their new outlet. They have kulfis as a stick, or you can even have it cut into pieces and served in a bowl. The paan flavour was really nice, and you can't go wrong with this one. You feel like you're having paan. The avocado flavour was something different and I hadn't had it before, but I personally did not enjoy it much. If you like something on the sweeter side, then the rose flavour is also a good option.to it. I also liked the Saffron flavour. It wasn't too sweet, but had a nice flavour of saffron to it. They have interesting items named after various places, and we tried Lahore . It is a combination of jelly and falooda topped with rabdi, and you can have your choice of kulfi with it. This was really nice since you get to have falooda, and at the same time it doesn't become overly sweet

This was perhaps the best iftar that I went to this season. Not only the food, but I really liked it overall too.  The view from here is just breath-taking. It's worth going here just for the view. You get a lovely view of the Dubai canal, and it felt so peaceful. Although, it was a bit hot in Ramadan, but they had a couple of coolers outside, so it wasn't that bad. It would be great during winters though.  They also had live music here.  We started with some lovely Ramadan juices.  I really liked the karkadi which was refreshing and not too sour. They also had qamar aldin, laban, and tamarind juice.  We then moved on to shawerma (which wasn't as a roll but as a plate on which you could put toppings as per your liking).  There were various types of breads, manakeesh, and fatayer.  The selection of cold starters was huge. Apart from the usual hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, they also had haydari, labneh balls and more. The salads were cold and actua

I have visited a few outlets of theirs and this time they sent me some food for a review. The packaging was done really well with no spillage of any sort.  We started with the cheezi potato wedges which I really liked. Though the cheese had become a bit dry, but that would be expected when you order in.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Famished Explorer [ UDIT ] (@uditss) on May 27, 2019 at 4:16am PDT The hummus was just about average. It was more sour than usual thought the consistency was good.  The labneh was thick and creamy too, and tasted nice.  The moutabel had a really nice flavour to it, and we had it with the bread.  If you like cheese, then do try the kaak akawi cheese . This cheese tastes really good with the kaak bread.  One of my favourite arabic food item is the falafel, and I ordered a falafel wrap . It looked really great, and the filling was good too. It had tahina which gave it a good flavour, but the