The holy month of Ramadan began in the UAE on March 11 by the moon sighting committee. As always, Dubai has been pulling all the stops to serve up some spectacular iftars. The fast-breaking meal, consumed at sunset, is an excellent way for people from different nationalities and faiths to bond while they break bread together. We’ve compiled the ultimate guide to iftar in Dubai so whether you’re fasting or not, you can embrace the festive spirit of the holy season. Here’s our pick of 23 best iftar deals in Dubai, in no specific order.
1. LDC Kitchen + Coffee
What’s better than an iftar buffet? An all-you-can-eat iftar deal that’s less than AED 90 per person is what! LDC Kitchen + Coffee’s All-You-Can-Eat iftar lets you fill your boots with unlimited starters, mains, water, one soft drink and one scoop of ice cream per person. Available across all their branches from sunset to 10pm, that’s almost 4 hours to stuff yourself silly with classics like pizza pockets fluffy buttermilk pancakes, pepperoni pizzas, pastas and more.
Price: AED 89 per person
Booking: Visit the LDC Kitchen + Coffee website
2. Zenon, Kempinski Central Avenue Hotel
Dubai’s AI-driven restaurant has a special ‘Under the Stars’ Iftar experience for Ramadan that is a feast for your tastebuds and eyes. HD screens transform this indoor dining space into a starlit night sky. Those preferring the real deal can also sit outside in the terrace area. The Mediterranean-Asian menu features a variety of mezze, mains such as mince beef kofte or burnt eggplant with soy miso, poached seabass fillet and begendi with milk-fed lamb stew. Desserts include pastries like baklava, kunafa, kadaifi and more. From sunset to 9 pm
Price: AED 295 per person.
Booking: Call 04 837 7222 or visit the website
3. Ria, Palm Jumeirah
Beachside iftar for less than AED 200 per person? That’s exactly what you get at this upscale beach bar and restaurant located in Club Vista Mare. Gorge on a a set menu of nibbles, starters, mains and desserts such as fried kebbeh rolls, vine leaves, beef or chicken souvlaki, kofta skewers and more. In the background, the sounds of the waves and adhan (Islamic call to prayer) blend.
Price: AED 190 per person
Booking: Visit the website
4. Royal Iftar at Emirates Golf Club
Lush greens are the setting for this regal Ramadan experience. This sit-down iftar meal rolls out onto this verdant location under gazebos built to reflect Bedouin architecture. Inside, a delicious spread fit for royalty awaits. Traditional iftar delicacies, mains, and desserts will be part of the menu from sunset until 11pm.
Price: AED 295 per person
Booking: Call 04 417 9999 or email emiratesdining@dubaigolf.com
5. QD’s, Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club
This veteran of Dubai’s dining scene is rolling out a splendid outdoor iftar. Catch waterfront views of the sun go down by the Dubai Creek while nibbling on Arabian classics – hot and cold mezze, salads, soups, live cooking stations roasting up mixed grills and more. Dessert sections include classics like umm ali, fresh melt-in-your-mouth kunafa, saffron rice pudding and more. From sunset to 9pm.
Price: AED 195 per person
Booking: Call 04 295 6000 or click here
6. Bombay Bungalow
The highly Instagrammable homegrown Indian restaurant adds a spicy spin to iftar with its four-course set menu featuring fusion Indian cuisine. Highlights include mushroom empanada, afghani chicken tikka, biryani bowls and a curry of the day you can mop up using an array of Indian breads that are part of the meal.Tres leches cake emerges as the single dessert champion and you can wash it all down with delicious beverages such as Arabic coffee, tamarind juice, fruit punch, and roohafza.
Price: AED 110 per person
Booking: Call 04 427 0758
7. Jun’s
This trendy Downtown Dubai restaurant by Chef Kelvin Cheung doesn’t miss a beat with its iftar menu. Switch up lentil soup with a Miso dashi soup, quench your thirst with a dates mocktail and enjoy a mezze sharing platter whose contents you ironically might not want to share – za’atar chaat, edamame hummus, potato mozzarella samosa and other delicacies populate it. Mains are family-style dishes of chicken claypot machboos, Jamaican Chinese lamb neck, Eggplant parmesan, Kung Pao broccoli and desserts galore. From sunset till 8pm.
Price: AED 250 per person
Booking: Call 04 457 6035 or WhatsApp 050 938 9099
8. Hikayat Ramadan Garden & Enigma, Palazzo Versace
Italian opulence blends with Arabian flamboyance at Palazzo Versace’s annual Ramadan Hikayat Garden. This year, they’re focusing on lavish suhoors instead of iftar. You can lounge under the stars in on opulent sofas, Arabian carpets, and glamorous table settings from 9:30pm to 3am while enjoying waterfront views and an a la carte menu. Want to try iftar buffet at this five-star hotel in Al Jaddaf? The Persian iftar set menu at Enigma serves appetising dishes like sabz khordan, homemade Persian cheese, roasted Persian bread and more for AED 250 per person.
Price: Minimum spend of AED 200 per person for suhoor
Booking: Call 04 556 8888
9. Kiza Restaurant and Lounge
This DIFC Pan-African restaurant and lounge has a Taste Safari Iftar experience. The sharing-style iftar menu has handpicked dishes from different countries in the African continent. You’ll sip on Nigerian Pepper soup, sample Cape Malay beef curry, dig into Arab-African fusion Yakhnit Bamye and polish off the meal with a spicy dumpling dessert from South Africa called BO-Kaap Koe’sister.
Price: AED 235 per person
Booking: WhatsApp: +971 50 194 0736 or visit www.kiza.ae
10. Yalumba, Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre
This award-winning restaurant has whipped an outdoor iftar buffet experience with a traditional majlis. The Aussie restaurant’s outdoor area transforms into an Arabian oasis packed with activities such as an Arabic trio band, henna artist and an oud player. The extravagant buffet includes Ramadan juices, hot and cold mezze, dates, succulent mains and an array of appetizers and desserts. From sunset until 9:30pm.
Price: AED 185 per person
Booking: Call 04 702 2455 or email restaurants.lmd@marriott.com
11. Sushi Art
If buffets and their dizzying varieties bog you down, keep iftars simple and sweet with Sushi Art’s Bento menu. A ready-to-eat box featuring portions of miso soup, edamame, dates, noodles, rolls, plain rice, sushi and dumplings will be served through Ramadan. You can choose what dishes make it to the Bento box, with variations for chicken lovers, fans of salmon and vegetarians. If you eat everything under the sun, the mix Bento for AED 69 is tailor-made. Available at all Sushi Art branches.
Price: AED 59 for veggie Bento, AED 69 for mix & chicken Bento, AED 89 for salmon Bento
Booking: Call 800220 or visit www.sushiart.ae
12. Queen Elizabeth 2 Hotel
Iftar aboard this historic cruise ship-turned-floating hotel is sure to make waves. Lido Restaurant will serve both sea views and a scintillating Iftar Al Malika buffet that reels in the best of Ramadan cuisine from the region. Graze on hot and cold mezze, traditional Ouzi, Arabic mix grill, and a full-fledged kebbeh station. Desserts and juices such as katayef, halawet, Ain Al Jamal, Kamar-El-Den, jalab, and karkade make this a delightfully traditional affair. From 6:30pm to 9:30pm.
Price: AED 159 per person
Booking: Call 600 500 400 or email reservations.qe2@accor.com
13. Kitchen 6, JW Marriott Marquis
The buffet-style iftar meal here is an extensive offering, with six live cooking stations that each give you a taste of different cuisines from around the world, right from Asian woks and Indian tandoors, Middle Eastern mixed grills and desserts such as kunafa and baklava.
Price: AED 225 per person
Booking: Call 04 414 3000 or email jwmmrr@marriott.com
14. Palm Garden, Park Hyatt Dubai
A picturesque garden setting is the main feature of this open-air iftar. Fairylights, flowers, foliage and a live oud player create a peaceful ambience as you end your fast with fresh seafood like oysters, lobster and caviar, favourites such as chicken tikka and malai kebab, international dishes and more. Shawarma lovers must definitely hit up the dedicated shawarma station. From sunset to 8:30pm.
Price: AED 350 per person
Booking: Call 04 602 1814 or email restaurantreservations@hyatt.com
15. Bushra
Share Dubai Marina views and a sharing-style iftar menu at this Grosvenor House restaurant in Dubai Marina. Fattoush, silky hummus, Moroccan zaalouk, hot mezze such as Turkish piden, sujuk sausages, and mains such as mixed grills and lamb ouzi are menu strong contenders. Dessert will include traditional Arabic and Turkish delights, fresh fruits and heaps of cakes and pastries. From sunset till 8:30pm.
Price: AED 280 per person
Booking: Call 04 317 6000 or email resbook.grosvenorhouse@luxurycollection.com
16. Clap, DIFC
This glamorous restaurant in the Gate Village, DIFC, has a four-course set iftar menu paired with some of the most stunning views of Dubai. Munch on dates and dried fruits, miso soup, edamame, sushi and salad options and scrumptious mains such as black cod miso, marinated lamb rack, clap chicken katsu, and desserts such as pistachio and dates profiteroles.
Price: AED 275 per person
Booking: Call 04 569 3820 or email reservations@clapdubai.com
17. Al Mashowa, Riverland
The Europe-inspired theme park inside Dubai Parks and Resorts is home to the authentic Emirati restaurant Al Mashowa. For iftar 2204, they’ve rustled up an outdoor buffet focusing on heritage recipes handed down through generations of Emirati families. Devour Emirati chicken machbous, Dawoud basha, mezze and refreshing drinks like jallab, qamar al fine, tamer al hendi etc. From 7pm to 10pm.
Price: AED 95 per person
Booking: Call 04 590 5455
18. Jones The Grocer, Delta Hotels JBR
The Arabic-fusion iftar three-course menu here is designed to reflect Dubai’s multiculturalism. Tuck into dates, a spicy lentil soup, chickpea cauliflower and tahini salad, pan-seared sea bass, saffron king prawn risotto and more. From 6:30pm to 10pm
Price: AED 99 for three courses and AED 79 for two courses.
Booking: Call 50 189 6214
19. MyGovinda’s
The vegetarian Indian restaurant chain has a yoga-backed ‘sattvic’ diet that they’ve freshened up for Ramadan in the format of a four-course set menu that feeds two people and costs only AED 51! Enjoy light but nourishing dishes made using seasonal produce and free of preservatives when you break your fast. You can enjoy a feast of chaat items, starters like pizza, mains like kulhad (pot) biryani and delicious Indian desserts.
Price: Set menu costs AED 51 for two people
Booking: Call 056 261 4599 or visit www.mygovindas.com
20. Mina’s Kitchen
The home of the famous Bubbalicious brunch and The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi’s all-day dining restaurant is pooling its gastronomical chops into creating a splendid iftar buffet for Ramadan. International and Arabic dishes, from mezze to chicken and rice dishes, desserts and classic Ramadan juices are part of the spread here. From sunset till 10pm.
Price: AED 195 per person; AED 75 per child (aged 6 to 12)
Booking: Call 04 511 7373
21. Cafe Beirut
Café Beirut is going the whole nine yards to ensure Ramadan nights in 2024 are one for the books. After breaking your fast at this Lebanese institution in Al Murroj Complex in Downtown Dubai, revel in board games and cards to pass the time with family and friends in the run-up to suhoor. The iftar menu here commences with traditional Lebanese starters of dates, dried apricots and olives, soups, hummus, moutabal, mezze dishes such as makanek, batata harra and Lebanese BBQ.
Price: AED 172 per person
Call: 04 422 5211 or visit www.cafebeirutdubai.com
22. Asil, Rixos Premium Dubai
A bountiful iftar feast will be served at this waterfront restaurant from sunset till 8pm throughout Ramadan. Insured by the flavours and cuisines of Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco, you’ll find yourself working your way through mezzes, grill platters and delicacies from Turkey, Central Asia, hearty tagines and coscous from Morocco, and Lebanon’s stuffed marrows, vine leaves, and shish. Asil’s daily live acoustic band will perform Middle Eastern melodies.
Price: AED 230 per person
Booking: Call 04 520 0055, WhatsApp 052 160 0333 or email dine@asilrestaurant.com
23. Shai Salon, Four Seasons Resort Jumeirah Beach
This gorgeous terrace cafe has a poetic and quite intellectual iftar in store for diners. The five-course menu here weaves the words and numbers of 11th-century Persian genius Omar Khayyam. The astronomer-poet’s famous work, the Rubaiyat, serves as the inspiration behind the rich culinary delicacies of this iftar menu. From sunset to 9pm.
Price: AED 300 per person
Bookings: Call 04 270 7777