Where the coverage
is today.
Our restaurant coverage begins with Dubai, because that is where our hotel coverage is and because the two decisions are the same decision more often than guides admit — a great many of the city’s best restaurants are inside the hotels we already write about.
The hub is Michelin-starred restaurants in Dubai. It lists all nineteen starred venues in the current selection with the chef, the building, the district and, in the last column, whether you can actually get a table — which for four of the fourteen one-stars today you cannot.
We publish no scores of our own for restaurants, and no aggregator star averages. Where a distinction is cited it is MICHELIN’s, with the year of the selection that awarded it, because those change annually and most published lists are a year behind.
And where dining
meets the room.
If you are choosing a hotel partly for its restaurants, the property pages are the better starting point. The Dubai hotel edit holds the full profiles, and each one states what is trading on site rather than what the marketing badge claims — a distinction that matters this year, because several of the city’s biggest resorts are running fewer venues than they advertise.
The district guide is the other route in: it splits the city into ten areas and says which are wrong for which trip, including where the Michelin stars actually are as against where people assume they are.