Book your last Zuma brunch for 2014
That’s right — after June 27, the top-rated Japanese restaurant in DIFC will no longer be serving brunch — until 2015, that is. Brunch starts at Dh345 for soft drinks, Dh495 with drinks and Dh600 for the premium package. They will be open during Ramadan, though, serving lunch, including the Ebisu business lunch. Call 04-4255660.
Ripe for the picking
Ripe Food & Craft Market is at The Change Initiative Store, Al Barsha 1, this Saturday, from 9am-2pm. Expect around 25 local vendors.
Celebrate International Sushi Day
Book your spot at Abu Dhabi’s Koi restaurant on June 18 when the St Regis Saadiyat Island outpost of the Los Angeles restaurant celebrates with a four-course Californian-Japanese menu. Expect the likes of an amuse bouche of sea urchin, plums and asparagus with crispy phyllo and coconut crème. The raw fish includes sashimi (with a choice of fish including tuna, salmon, red snapper, yellowtail and scallops) with herb miso and yuzu soy; and various nigiri, served with dashi soy. Sushi rolls come with wagyu beef, shiitake, hearts of palm and pickled daikon with porcini mushroom soy. There’s also dessert; it’s Dh295 per person (Dh395 with beverage); call 02-6783334.
Peruvian street food at Story
Media City’s Story Rooftop Lounge has launched a new take on its favourite Peruvian cuisine with a focus on street food dishes. The sharing menu dishes includes plenty of seafood ceviche (seafood “cooked” in citrus juice) such as ceviche Nipon, red snapper with coriander and red chilli or grilled scallops anticuchos (marinated in lemongrass and coconut milk). For meat eaters, try risotto limeno with beef tenderloin. Sweets include dulce de leche fondant served with banana ice cream and caramelised quinoa. Call 04-3659911.
Opera with The Ivy
Try a night of French food and music with the Emirates Towers Boulevard restaurant’s opera night on June 11. Singers from the Emirates Opera Project will perform from 7pm while diners try a three-course French menu for Dh395. It follows a similar Italian night held there in April. On the menu this time are chicken liver parfait, vichyssoise soup and tuna tartare, short-rib Bourguinonne with pomme puree, creme brulee, chocolate eclair and apple and raspberry tarte tatin; call 04-3198767.
New Moroccan chef in town
Yousuf Mabchour has joined the Four Points by Sheraton Shaikh Zayed Road’s Moroccan Restaurant and Lounge and brought with him a new menu. Call 04-3169726.
Father’s Day pizza
Dads: They love fast food and are always telling you to save, save, save, right? Good news for those trying to treat their dad this Father’s Day on June 15: All PizzaExpress outlets are giving dads who take their kids for a meal a classic pizza free when another menu item is bought. Locations include Ibn Battuta Mall, Bin Soughat Mall, Safa Centre, Dubai World Trade Centre and City Centre Fujairah, but not Jazz@PizzaExpress in JLT (or for takeaway or delivery).
Stick the knife in
Dubai Dinner Theatre Group are organising a Murder Mystery Dinner at Lounge Cafe Italiano in Media City on June 19. Starting from 7.30pm, the Dh250 meal will have a distinctly Godfather-vibe with diners invited to solve the mystery as actors play out their roles in and among them. Call 800-ITALIANO.
Sass Cafe hosts art
The Monaco-based restaurant (it recently opened at Al Fattan Towers in DIFC) is teaming up with Opera Gallery. Works from the gallery will join a portrait of the restaurant founder, Salvador “Sassa” Sass, already installed on the cafe’s wall. The modern and contemporary art includes pieces by Mr. Brainwash, Mauro Corda, Karl Lagasse and Laurence Jenkell. The pieces will be displayed in the bar, dining floor and lounge of the two-storey restaurant. It’s open 7 days a week for dinner, 7pm-midnight; the bar is open 6pm-2am and lunch is served Sunday-Thursday, noon-3pm; call 04-3527722.
