A Spanish route to Japanese haute cuisine 99 Sushi Bar arrived in Abu Dhabi in 2017 as the brand’s first restaurant outside Spain, bringing a distinctly European idea of Japanese haute cuisine to Al Maryah Island. The dining room at The Galleria, beside Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi, remains deliberately polished: deep velvet, metallic details, […]
A café with a reason for its name 90 Centigrade is one of those hotel venues that makes more sense once you know the idea behind it. The name refers to the water temperature the café identifies as ideal for brewing espresso, and the concept grew from there into a home-grown Abu Dhabi café inside […]
The sequel that did not copy the original When 3Fils opened in Dubai in late 2016, its appeal came from an unusual combination: serious Japanese-influenced cooking delivered without the stiffness often attached to serious restaurants. Abu Dhabi, opened in July 2025, scales that idea up rather than turning it into a polished clone. The Al […]
Zayed International Airport is 31 kilometres from the door, around half an hour. From Al Bateen Executive Airport it is 12.3 kilometres, which for guests arriving privately is a short transfer by any standard. Either way the approach ends at Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Street in Al Manhal, in the middle of the island rather […]
A resort restaurant shaped by Hudayriyat 28 Degrees belongs to the slower, holiday-minded side of Abu Dhabi dining. Set within Bab Al Nojoum on Hudayriyat Island, it was conceived as the resort’s all-day restaurant rather than a formal destination dining room: breakfast after an early beach walk, a long lunch between activities, or an unfussy […]
The outdoor pool at Corniche Hotel Abu Dhabi carries a swim up bar. At a city hotel of this scale, six minutes on foot from the promenade and set inside the street grid rather than out on the waterfront, that is an unusual fitting. Loungers and full poolside service run alongside it, and the whole […]
Downtown Abu Dhabi was the emirate’s business address long before Al Maryah was built out or Saadiyat had a museum on it, and Le Royal Meridien has held a position in the middle of it throughout. Sheikh Khalifa Street, twenty five floors, 278 rooms. The district around it has since been overtaken by newer neighbourhoods. […]
Two hundred and eighty rooms and suites, forty four floors, and a stepped Art Deco silhouette completed in 2012 inside the Capital Plaza complex. Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche was conceived as a tower before it was conceived as a hotel, and the arithmetic of that decision runs through the whole property. The higher you sleep, […]
Flavours is the room where most guests at the Sheraton Abu Dhabi begin the day. It handles all day dining and the breakfast buffet, and it has been reliably good for years, which for a great many travellers is a more valuable quality than a restaurant that makes headlines. The rest of the programme runs […]
Al Bateen Marina occupies the quieter western flank of Abu Dhabi’s main island, a working yacht harbour with a promenade of restaurants and cafés along its edge, and The Abu Dhabi EDITION sits on it. The hotel looks out over the berths and the water rather than over a main road, which is a rarer […]
