FAMISHED EXPLORER

 This is a lovely place and I love the ambience here. It feels classy. They have ladies night too, and I went there with a few of my friends. Ladies get 3 drinks free and the food is at a discounted price.  The drinks were good. Although some did feel a bit watered down.  I had the berry mocktail which was really good. It had a a generous amount of crushed berries in it.  We also liked the edamame and the fries.  The sushi was not bad.  The staff is rude and uncooperative though. We asked for some comfortable chairs as a couple of us just got stools without the backrest. There was an empty table beside us that had these extra chairs. The staff said that the table is reserved and they cannot give us the chairs. Nobody came and sat on that table throughout the duration of our visit. 

Neos is located on the 63rd floor of the hotel and when they invited me here, I was really thrilled primarily for the views from here. The moment the doors of the elevator open and you step in, you get the feeling that you've come to a classy place. It all looks opulent, but they have not overdone it which is a really good thing.  There is seating on almost a 360 degree periphery on the restaurant. From one side you can see the Burj Khalifa area and the other side is the boulevard street view (which isn't  anything raveworthy.   This review is primarily about the views.  Well, I did have a mocktail - the Jumping Goat - a very catchy name. It has got cold brew, cocoa tea, honey, and strawberry. Being a fan of cold brew, I really liked it. The coffee wasn't bitter or overpowering and the overall flavour was really nice.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Famished Explorer...

Beau Rivage is restaurant and bar in the newly opened Millenium Grand hotel in Business Bay and I was invited to try it out.  It is located beside the creek. They've got outside seating too, from where you can get a view of the creek, and enjoy the pleasant weather during winters.  We started with a beer and merlot.  For this evening, it was a tasting menu and we got to try out a few of their dishes, most of which were bar snacks and finger food.  We started with a pumpkin me which is a chilled pumpkin soup. The idea of a chilled pumpkin soup didn't quite excite me and after having a sip, my initial apprehensions were right. I don't have the taste-buds for this at all.  The one that I loved the most was the canal-mari . It was breaded calamari which was really crispy and hot, and was served with an aioli dip. Do try this one out.  For those who like a cold starter, there is the think pink which is baby shrimps along with a c...

Jules has recently launched a very interesting offer called fiesta @ 21. In this, you can get 21 dishes and unlimited soft drinks for just AED 121. You can order one dish at a time as per your liking. It works out to approximately AED 6 per dish, which is dirt cheap. Of-course, you may not be able to practically have all the dishes based on your appetite.  The offer is valid until end of October 2018. Weekdays 12 noon to 12 midnight, Weekends 12 noon to 8pm.  The individual menu items will still be available later. I was invited to try out these dishes. We could barely just taste all the dishes.  As we waited for the food, they got us some tortilla chips to munch on since this is a Mexican restaurant. Though my friend found these to be just okay, I'm a fan of simple food, and I liked having just these chips with the salsa. We started with the buffalo wings which were quite good. They had the zesty and spicy sauce on it which I liked and it tasted great with...

This place has come up where one of our most favourite places the music room used to be. The place has a more desi feel to it with Indian bands playing love music intermittently.  The ambience is mostly the same except for the addition of a few quirky quotes here and there.  What made me check this place out is that (at the time of writing this post) on every Tuesday they have drinks for 10 dirhams . Of-course these are selected beverages, i.e. one or two brands of each kind of alcohol but I think that's a sweet deal. They have 4 or 5 options on beer as far as I remember. The mugs that they serve the beer in have a rustic feel to it.  A post shared by Famished Explorer [ UDIT ] (@uditss) on Apr 2, 2018 at 10:19pm PDT They also have a pool table here which is free to play (on first come first serve basis) but it can get a bit crowded at times and you may have to wait for a while before you can play.  We didn't have much food here albeit the f...