Dinner Club, A Restaurant Week will run from 23-29 September, offering specially curated three-course menus from AED150 at its four stunning and award-winning venues, alongside a series of food and cultural masterclasses
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Inviting guests to dine around some of the best Dubai restaurants, and most acclaimed lifestyle destination, for an enticing price, ICD Brookfield Place has launched Dinner Club, A Restaurant Week. The week will see the sleek DIFC lifestyle hub come alive with activity, as its four stunning homegrown restaurants offer specially curated menus for a fixed price, alongside hosting a series of workshops and events. Josette, La Niña, Lulu & The Beanstalk and The Guild will all offer unique menus priced between AED150 and AED275 per person, which include a starter, main course and dessert, with vegan options, too. Guests can also enhance their dining experience with handpicked cocktails and perfectly paired wines.
What’s more, Dinner Club will also see these top Dubai restaurants come alive with workshops, tastings and talks led by chefs and mixologists from each F&B outlet, offering guests a unique culinary and cultural experience. Here’s what to expect at the debut Dinner Club, a Restaurant Week by ICD Brookfield Place.
The Dubai restaurants at Dinner Club, A Restaurant Week
Josette
Known for its playful pink walls and ode to Parisian Pigalle, Josette has cemented itself as the place to enjoy French classics and joie de vivre in the city. Josette will offer two menus, one for AED150 and a more indulgent offering for AED275. The AED150 menu includes classically French dishes like sizzling ‘crevettes grillées’ (Josper grilled prawns), and creative ‘aubergine mille-feuille’, ‘pâtes aux morilles à la truffe’ (rigatoni pasta) and poulet grillé (seared Label Rouge chicken) and delicious ‘tarte au caramel’. The more decadent AED275 option includes ‘tartare de boeuf’, ‘escargots de Josette’, entrecôte steak, baked seabass and more.
On top of its three-course Dinner Club menu, Josette will also run a series of cocktail and pastry masterclasses throughout Restaurant Week with a cocktail masterclass on 25th September from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and a pastry masterclass on 29th September from 1 to 3 pm – a wonderful way to spend a Sunday. For Josette reservations; for Josette’s Pastry and Cocktail Masterclass
La Niña
Guests entering La Niña are transported to the heady Iberian Peninsula and landscapes of Latin America – from the blue and white Portuguese tiles wall tiles and stained glass windows to the gilded chandelier commanding the dimly lit dining room. Guests can choose starters like ‘ensalada La Nina’ and ‘Taco de Camaron’ (prawns and mango), mains like ‘salmon al horno’ (roasted salmon), Josper-grilled pumpkin and ‘rabo de toro’ (braised bull’s tail) and either a 12-month aged Manchego cheese flan or zingy fresh sorbet. Two options are available: AED150 for a curated three-course offering, and AED275 for more premium options, including wagyu sirloin and lobster tartare, alongside a quintet of delicious drinks.
La Niña’s is offering a taste of this hearty and flavourful cuisine, alongside a Ceviche Masterclass on Wednesday 25th of Sept running from 5:00 to 7:00 pm and offering insight into the famed Latin American dish. For La Niña reservations; for La Niña’s Ceviche Masterclass
Lulu & The Beanstalk
A colourful coffee shop-meets-cocktail bar-meets book store literary hideaway, Lulu & The Beanstalk is the baby of filmmaker-sisters Wafa and Amirah Tajdin. This month, guests are invited to try their cuisine; inspired by their grandmother, Mama Lulu (a renowned storyteller from Lamu, Kenya), the menu features Indian Ocean favourites with a comfort food twist, such as starters like ‘ceviche snaps back’ and ‘kinda fancy calamari’, and mains like ‘really pretty fish tacos’ and ‘”Lil” Brookfield sliders’. Desserts include the famous and comforting ‘Mama Lulu’s favourite pudding’. One dish from each course, plus one drink, is available for AED150, and two starters, one main and one dessert, plus two drinks, for AED270. A wine or cocktail pairing is also on offer for an additional AED200.
Inspired by the grand brasseries of London and New York, The Guild takes diners on a journey through a maze of spaces – from the Potting Shed and Nurseries to the grand Salon and Rock Pool. The restaurant was awarded Michelin Guide Dubai’s 2024 Opening of the Year, and diners can get a taste of this sumptuous award-winning cuisine this Restaurant Week. For Dinner Club, diners have a choice of a three-course AED150 or AED275 menu, with the AED150 menu including The Guild classics like Heirloom tomato salad, octopus skewers and chicken liver parfait, alongside mains like hearty beef bourguignon and seabream en papillote. For dessert, it’s the likes of classic creme caramel or tiramisu. Elevating the options, the AED275 offering includes fresh Italian burrata, king crab cocktail, seafood risotto and steak frites, alongside apple tarte and vanilla crème brûlée.
For Dinner Club, The Guild will also offer a Cheese and Wine Pairing workshop on Thursday 26th September – the ultimate indulgence and an excellent post-work social with friends. Available from 5:30 to 8:30pm; for dinner reservations: Call +971 4 321 9142 or email [email protected]; The Guild’s Wine and Cheese Workshop reservations