A neighbourhood success story that became part of the city’s food fabric Al Farah was founded in 1998 as a family-owned Middle Eastern restaurant and has expanded into several Abu Dhabi branches, including Khalidiyah, Hamdan, M44 and Mohammed Bin Zayed City. Its scale should not obscure the reason people return: the menu is built around […]
A restaurant designed to make heritage tangible Al Fanar takes its name from the old kerosene lantern and builds the rest of its identity around the same idea: illuminating a version of Emirati life that younger diners and international visitors may not have experienced first-hand. The Yas Mall branch uses a setting inspired by the […]
A restaurant with roots in the city rather than a manufactured heritage theme Al Dhafra Restaurant traces its story to 1993, when it was established in Abu Dhabi’s Mina Zayed area. Its own history credits the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan with encouraging the group’s founder, Abdullah Hareb Al Fallahi, in establishing the […]
The Ultra White Pure Gyr Garmousha, bred in the United States, becomes the most expensive bird sold at this year’s exhibition, in a market where Abu Dhabi sets the reference price.
Abu Dhabi, 29 August 2026: Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Emirates Falconers’ Club, the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX) 2026 is introducing a new range of interactive family activities and experiences that combine entertainment, education […]
Al Raha Beach Resort and Spa is built low. The accommodation blocks run at a few storeys rather than the twenty or thirty that the Corniche favours, they are set in gardens, and they are arranged along the water rather than stacked back from it. The plot follows the Al Raha channel, so the buildings […]
The drive from Zayed International Airport takes about fifteen minutes and ends at the foot of the Maqta bridge, the historic entrance to Abu Dhabi island. Fairmont Bab Al Bahr means gateway of the sea, and the address is literal. The hotel stands in Rabdan on the Khor Al Maqta at the point where the […]
The private beach at Qaryat Al Beri runs for a kilometre along the Khor Al Maqta, which makes it one of the longer stretches of hotel sand anywhere on the creek and the reason a good number of guests never leave the estate. Four outdoor pools sit behind it, set far enough apart that families, […]
The Grand Canal in the name is literal. The resort was laid out around a waterway cut through the site, with ten separate buildings arranged along it and a Venetian reference carried through the property as far as the Venezia Ballroom on the events floor. It stands on Al Rawdah in the Al Maqta area, […]
Four five star hotels stand along the Khor Al Maqta within sight of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, and ERTH is the one that arrived by conversion rather than construction. The building was the Armed Forces Officers Club Hotel, a landmark of a particular era in Abu Dhabi, and when the time came its owners […]
