Eat & drink

Start with the Emirati kitchen itself.

Harees, madrouba and machboos; a fish market where you choose from the ice; and the highest tables in the country at 1,400 metres.

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Abu Dhabi · Emirati

Harees, madrouba and camel machboos, served the way it is served at home — on the floor, from one dish.

••4.8

Dubai · Seafood

Choose from the ice, tell them how you want it, eat it fifteen minutes later beside the water.

••4.7

Dubai · Levantine

Breakfast in the old town: balaleet, chebab with date syrup, and karak that keeps arriving.

•4.6

Sharjah · Emirati & Persian

In a restored merchant's house in the heritage district; the saffron rice is the reason to book.

••4.8

Ajman · Mediterranean

Tables on the mangrove channel. The flamingos are there at sunset and nobody pretends otherwise.

••4.7

Ras Al Khaimah · Modern Emirati

The highest tables in the country, at about 1,400 metres. Book the seating that faces the ridge.

•••4.9

Fujairah · Grill

On the pass between the two coasts, beside the pottery and fruit stalls. Order the whole grilled hammour.

•4.5

Umm Al Quwain · Seafood

Whatever the boats brought in that morning, fried, with lime and rice. There is no menu.

•4.6