About Cellini
Cellini is the Italian-fine-dining flagship inside the Al Ain Rotana, the Garden-City reference for the Italian-Continental format at the international-hotel-flagship standard. The restaurant occupies a Tuscan-villa-styled dining room within the hotel — the white-tablecloth service, the dark-wood-and-leather banquette seating, the Italian-Renaissance art-and-textile decor, and the open-display kitchen with the wood-fired pizza oven as the centrepiece.
The menu is the Italian-fine-dining canon at hotel-flagship execution. The signatures are the hand-rolled fresh pasta (the lobster ravioli, the tagliatelle al ragù bianco, the squid-ink linguine with prawns), the wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas (the Margherita with buffalo mozzarella, the Quattro Formaggi, the Diavola with spicy salami), the slow-cooked osso buco with saffron risotto, and the seared Atlantic salmon with lemon-and-caper sauce. The wine list runs the Italian-imported reds-and-whites (Chianti, Barolo, Pinot Grigio). A multi-course Italian dinner-with-wine for two runs AED 450-650 ($120-175).
The room is the Italian-formal-but-warm hotel-flagship set-piece. The Tuscan-villa decor, the discreet white-tablecloth service from the senior international-trained waitstaff, the spaced tables, and the open-display kitchen-theatre make Cellini the Garden-City Italian-business-dinner standby. Capacity is around 100 across the dining room and the private salon.
Reservations matter for the Thursday-Saturday weekend evenings; one week ahead is enough. The restaurant accepts cards, the staff speak strong English, and the alcohol-licence covers the Italian-imported wine selection.
Best Occasion Fit
For closing deals — the Al Ain Rotana hotel-flagship address and the Italian-formal setting carry the proper Garden-City business-dinner rhythm; the spaced tables hold the conversational privacy. As a first date the Italian-villa-formal setting reads as making-the-effort without going stiff. For birthdays the private salon handles groups of eight-to-twelve.
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