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 This is a newly started restaurant and they invited me to try out their food. The restaurant isn't very big and at first felt like it was just another restaurant but the food bowled me over. We started with the Hakimi sherbat . It is a cold beverage which basically has saffron milk with watermelon pieces in it. It was served chilled and felt really refreshing. We totally loved the way it tasted and couldn't get enough of this. They have some refreshing shots too. We tried the kala khatta shots and the kachchi kairi shots . They're served with chilli on the rim of the glass which adds the real kick to it. The flavours tasted natural and the right amount of tangy. For starters, we had the mutton seekh kebab . These were really soft and served with puris. Really flavourful, although a tad bit oily. The next was the fish chilli dry . It had big  pieces of fish and the chilli was just right. It had a nice Indo-Chinese flavour to it. Up next was the malai dhamaka boti . It is s...

 They're recently re-branded Koyla rooftop as Level 8. We were invited here to try out their food and experience the place It is located alongside the pool on the top floor (8th floor). You can see Burj Khalifa at a distance and a view of the Ras Al Khor area. They have good shisha. I had the kiwi paan, and also tried the coconut vanilla, as well as the peach and they were good.  The food was average though. We tried the cheese balls, chilli chicken, chicken manchurian, stuffed chilli, and spicy peanuts for starters. The peanuts were good, and so was the manchurian. The rest could have been better.  For the mains we had the chicken korma and fried rice which was decent. Among the cocktails, I had tequila sunrise which was good, and the ginlet which was okay the first time, but the second one that they got tasted better. The place has a desi vibe to it. The valet parking is not free for Koyla, but you can park yourself for free in the basement.

This is a nice restaurant located in Leva hotel and I was invited here to try out their food. It's not too big but has a nice ambience that feels upmarket.  We started with some mocktails. The berry based one was quite good, rest were average. For the appetisers, we started with Bang Bang Shrimp . It was crispy and nice. The pepper chicken were good too, although they could have been a been more moist. For the soups, I really liked their Malaysian Laksa soup . It was really creamy. The cream of mushroom was also flavourful as well as creamy. They've got some sushi too. The volcanic roll tasted great. The mango maki roll was good enough.  For mains, we had their chicken biryani which was quite good.  An interesting dish was the bunny chow . It is an African dish which seems like a bit of an Indian fusion. I can loosely define it as butter chicken served inside a stack of slice breads. If you're looking for something that has a classic Indian taste but a bit of a fusion...

 I had heard about this brand and wanted to check it out. They offered to send me some food at home for a review. Since my family is vegetarian , I asked only for veg food.  The delivery arrived on time, and was packed nicely. For starters, we had the spinach corn tikki . It was soft and a little crispy on the outside. It tasted really good and was served with khubz and a salad. For the biryani, we had one subz-e-biryani . The aroma of the biryani was just too good and we couldn't wait to dig in. The flavour too lived up to our expectations and we really liked it.  The other biryani was the zaikedaar paneer biryani . The spiced paneer added a lot of flavour to the biryani, and I enjoyed this even more than the subz-e-biryani. The biryanis were served with raita and gulab jamun. The gulab jamun too was soft and yummy.

Beyrock is a Lebanese restaurant located in Deira. They also serve shisha and have a nice ambience outside, although it's not too big. I was invited to try out the food here. We started with the hummus with meat . The taste was not bad, but it felt a bit dry. After that we had their shawerma . I did expect it to have a little more flavour to it. Then we tried the Arabic chicken biryani . This was delicious. The chicken was really flavourful and soft, and the rice also had mild flavours of the spices. It was served along with the spicy red sauce which accentuated the taste. Their speciality is the longest manakeesh of UAE . It is a metre long and comes in a mix of flavours. It's got zaatar, zaatar with labneh, cheese, lahm bi ajeen, and muhmara. This was huge and nice for sharing. The flavours were average though. I had a hot chocolate which was quite good. The Moroccan tea was served in a pot and had a nice minty flavour to it. Last, but not the least, we had the cheese kuna...