Turquoise at Rixos Premium Saadiyat Island: The Resort Buffet as a Daily Ritual

The restaurant that keeps an all-inclusive resort moving

Turquoise is not a destination restaurant in the narrow sense; it is the operational heart of Rixos Premium Saadiyat Island. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all run through the room, which means it has to satisfy families at 8am, beach-returning guests in the afternoon and diners ready for a more leisurely evening meal. The current Rixos guide positions Turquoise as the resort’s all-day dining restaurant, built around a global open buffet with live cooking and grill stations. That scale matters. Rather than forcing every guest into the same cuisine, the restaurant is designed around choice, with enough breadth to handle different ages, dietary preferences and lengths of stay.

Buffets are judged by movement as much as abundance

The best resort buffets succeed when the food feels replenished and active rather than static. Turquoise supports that with live stations, hot and cold selections, beverages and a mix of indoor seating with an adjacent shaded terrace. Rixos currently lists breakfast from 7am to 11am, lunch from 12.30pm to 3.30pm and dinner from 7pm to 10pm, with Saturday brunch from 1pm to 4pm. The hotel also makes Turquoise central to its accommodation packages: arrival-day dining and many all-inclusive meal periods are routed here before guests explore the à la carte restaurants. Recent August 2026 hotel reviews still mention Turquoise staff and the quality of the wider dining programme, which is useful confirmation that the venue remains active.

The right way to use it

For outside diners, Rixos notes that a minimum spend or day-pass arrangement may apply, so Turquoise makes the most sense when it is treated as part of the full Saadiyat resort experience rather than a standalone city restaurant. For hotel guests, however, it is the dependable base camp: breakfast before the beach, lunch without leaving the property and a flexible dinner when nobody wants to negotiate over cuisine. Simply Abu Dhabi would approach it on those terms. The appeal is not exclusivity; it is the pleasure of having a large, well-run international dining room ready whenever the resort day changes gear.

Practical details

Location: Rixos Premium Saadiyat Island, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cuisine: International all-day buffet with live cooking and grill stations
Telephone: +971 2 492 2222 (resort)
Hours: Breakfast 7:00am-11:00am; lunch 12:30pm-3:30pm; dinner 7:00pm-10:00pm; Saturday brunch 1:00pm-4:00pm
Editorial status: Open – current Rixos and Accor material verified