Brunch Dubai

Best Restaurants for Brunch in Dubai (2026)

Brunch · Dubai · 8 tables ranked · Updated May 2026

Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Updated May 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections

Dubai turned brunch into a sport. The weekend ritual moved to Saturday when the UAE switched to a Monday-to-Friday week in 2022, but the format held: a fixed price, a set window, and as much food and drink as a long afternoon can hold. The city runs two brunch economies that barely overlap. One is the hotel mega-hall, where two hundred dishes and a resident DJ turn lunch into a party that empties out at five. The other, newer one is the chef-led brunch, where a single kitchen sends out thirty plates to order and the room stays a restaurant rather than a club. The eight below run from the loudest party in the Gulf to the quietest skyline counter, scattered from the Palm to DIFC to a creek-side villa, and the lever on the best of them is matching the package to the afternoon you actually want.

The ranking

1. Reif Japanese Kushiyaki · Japanese kushiyaki brunch · Dar Wasl, Jumeirah

Dar Wasl Mall, Al Wasl Road, Jumeirah - around AED 238 per person with select drinks - Michelin Guide listed

Reif Othman's a la carte Buranchi sends thirty kushiyaki plates to order; the wagyu sando leads. The thinking diner's brunch.

Reif Othman, the ex-Zuma chef who is among the most decorated cooks in the city, runs the Buranchi out of his Dar Wasl Mall kushiyaki room on Al Wasl Road, and it is the brunch that rewrote the format. Instead of a buffet line, around thirty signature plates come to the table on order across Friday, Saturday and Sunday from noon to five: charcoal-grilled skewers, the wagyu truffle sando, spicy tuna and uni hand rolls, all priced around AED 238 per person with select drinks. Because one kitchen cooks every plate fresh, the quality never sags the way a three-hour buffet does, and the Michelin Guide listing reflects it. It is the rare Dubai brunch you book for the food rather than the package. Children under six eat free and six-to-twelves are half price, so it works for a family table as well as a serious one. For a brunch that stays a restaurant, this is the first booking to make.

2. COYA Dubai · Peruvian party brunch · Four Seasons, Jumeirah

Four Seasons Resort, Jumeirah Beach Road - around AED 329 soft to AED 629 Champagne - global Latin American brand

The Peruvian feast brunch with ceviches, anticuchos and Pisco sours; a live band lifts the room. Loud in the right way.

COYA built its name in London before it crossed to the Four Seasons on Jumeirah Beach Road, and its Saturday brunch is the polished middle ground between the mega-hall and the chef counter. The kitchen sends out the Peruvian repertoire that made the brand: lubina ceviche, anticuchos de pollo off the grill, and a stream of small plates, with bottomless Pisco sours and a live band and DJ turning the long room steadily up across the afternoon. The tiers run from around AED 329 without alcohol to AED 459 with cocktails and AED 629 with Champagne, so the package scales to the table. It is a party, but a grown-up one, where the food carries real weight rather than feeding the queue. The crowd skews stylish and the energy builds rather than crashes. For a brunch with a pulse that still puts a serious Latin American kitchen behind it, COYA is the pick.

3. Saffron · Pan-Asian party hall · Atlantis The Palm

Atlantis The Palm, Crescent Road, Palm Jumeirah - around AED 535 per adult, house tier - running since the resort opened in 2008

The city's most famous party brunch: roughly 200 dishes, live stations, a DJ and a crowd that dances. Go for the spectacle.

Saffron at Atlantis The Palm, on Crescent Road out on Palm Jumeirah, is the brunch most visitors mean when they say Dubai brunch. The pan-Asian hall has run since the resort opened in 2008 and relaunched with a refreshed look in 2025, and the scale is the point: roughly two hundred dishes across live stations, from a sushi counter and tandoor to Peking duck and an Italian section, with a resident DJ and a house drinks package around AED 535 per adult. By mid-afternoon the room is a party, with tables on their feet, which is exactly what a certain visitor wants from the experience. The food is broad rather than precise, and that is the trade for the sheer volume and the atmosphere. It is the spectacle brunch, the one to do once for the story. For a big group treating brunch as the main event of the day, Saffron is the original and still the loudest.

4. Bagatelle Dubai · French-Mediterranean · Trade Centre 1

Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Sheikh Zayed Road - tiers from AED 350 soft to AED 490 premium - Paris and global brand

The St-Tropez bistro brunch that builds into a table-dancing afternoon; truffle pasta and rotisserie chicken anchor it. Chic and rowdy.

Bagatelle came from Paris by way of St-Tropez and Mykonos before it landed at Jumeirah Emirates Towers on Sheikh Zayed Road, and its brunch keeps the Riviera template: French-Mediterranean bistro classics served properly before the room turns into a party. The kitchen runs truffle pasta, rotisserie chicken and steak frites alongside the share plates, with four drink tiers from AED 350 soft up to AED 490 premium, and a Late Brunch on Sundays through to December 2026. The see-and-be-seen crowd treats it as a fashion event, and by the back half of the afternoon the napkins are waving and the tables are dancing. The food is genuinely good bistro cooking rather than a holding pattern, which is what keeps it above the pure party brunches. It sits squarely between dinner-quality plates and full party energy. For a stylish weekend afternoon that starts as lunch and ends as a celebration, Bagatelle is the move.

5. Tomo · Japanese · Raffles Dubai, Wafi

17th floor, Raffles Dubai, Umm Hurair 2 - around AED 350 soft to AED 480 house - chef Chitoshi Takahashi

An authentic Japanese brunch seventeen floors up with skyline glass; sushi, tempura and robata, calmly served. The quiet view choice.

Tomo sits on the seventeenth floor of the Raffles Dubai pyramid in Wafi, where executive chef Chitoshi Takahashi runs one of the more serious Japanese kitchens in the city, and its Saturday brunch is the antidote to the party halls. Floor-to-ceiling glass frames the skyline and an outdoor terrace, and the food is proper izakaya and sushi cooking, sashimi, tempura, robata skewers and donburi, sent out at a calm pace from 12:30 to 3 with packages around AED 350 soft and AED 480 house. There is no DJ and no dancing; the draw is the view, the quiet and the kitchen. It is the brunch for a couple or a small table that wants the ritual without the volume. The cooking holds its line because the room never tips into chaos. For a refined, view-led Japanese brunch in the calmer register, Tomo is the standout.

6. Brasserie Boulud · French · Sofitel Obelisk, Wafi

Sofitel Dubai The Obelisk, Oud Metha - premium French tier, roughly AED 350 to 500 - Michelin Guide listed, by Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud's elegant French brunch with a raw bar of fresh oysters and chef stations; refined, not rowdy. Dress the part.

Brasserie Boulud, the Daniel Boulud room at the Sofitel Dubai The Obelisk in Oud Metha, is the grown-up French option and one of the few brunches here carrying a Michelin Guide listing. The Saturday brunch runs from 1 to 4 with a raw bar of fresh oysters, chef live stations and brasserie classics, and live music kept low enough to talk over, with a premium tier landing roughly between AED 350 and 500 depending on drinks. The polish is the point: this is the brunch for a celebration that wants white tablecloths and a wine list rather than a foam party. The cooking is precise, the oysters are the lead, and the pacing stays civilised across the whole window. It is closer to a long, generous lunch than a party. For a refined French brunch with a name kitchen behind it, Brasserie Boulud is the elegant end of the list.

7. Bubbalicious · International mega-buffet · Mina Seyahi, Marina

The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, Al Sufouh - from around AED 225 soft, rising by drinks tier - one of Dubai's original brunches

One of the city's original mega-buffets, sprawling across rooms and pool gardens; the best sheer value per dirham. Bring the family.

Bubbalicious at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, on the Al Sufouh beach strip near the Marina, is one of the brunches that built the city's reputation, and it remains the value heavyweight. The spread sprawls across several indoor venues and out into pool and beach gardens, with stations covering seafood, carvery, Asian, Italian and a serious dessert room, and a soft package that starts around AED 225 and rises with the drinks tier. It runs family-friendly through the daytime before the energy lifts later on, which makes it the rare big brunch that suits a table with children and a table of friends at once. The food is broad rather than refined, but the price-to-volume ratio is the best on this list. It is the dependable, roomy, all-comers brunch. For maximum food and space for the money, with kids in tow or not, Bubbalicious is the workhorse pick.

8. Bla Bla · Beach-club brunch · The Beach, JBR

The Beach by JBR, Jumeirah Beach Residence - around AED 399 with a sun-lounger - Ain Dubai views

The Sunday pool brunch with a beach-club pulse: pick four plates, Italian and Japanese bites, the Ain Dubai wheel behind you.

Bla Bla, the sprawling McGettigan's complex on The Beach at JBR, runs its brunch as a Sunday pool party, which makes it the outlier on a list of Saturday halls. The format is built around the beachfront: you take a sun-lounger by the pool, pick four plates from an Italian and Japanese-leaning menu, and work through a drinks package around AED 399 with the Ain Dubai observation wheel turning behind you. It is a brunch for a swimsuit rather than a blazer, tropical and high-energy, with the JBR crowd treating it as a full day out. The food is bites rather than a feast, but the setting does the heavy lifting. It is the closest thing on the list to a holiday afternoon. For a sun-and-pool brunch with a party pulse and a postcard backdrop, Bla Bla is the beach-club answer.

Wrong fit for a Dubai brunch

Gaia - DIFC. Izu Ani's Greek room is one of the best restaurants in the city, ranked No. 33 in MENA's 50 Best 2026, but it is an a la carte lunch and dinner venue, not a free-flow brunch. A reader expecting the classic Dubai package will be in the wrong room. Go for the food on its own terms, and pick Reif's Buranchi or COYA when the brief is actually brunch.

Ce La Vi - Address Sky View. The 54th-floor room is a spectacular rooftop lounge and sunset destination, but it trades on the view and the nightlife rather than a heavyweight brunch. As a brunch specifically it is over-billed. Keep it for a sundowner and let Tomo handle the view-led brunch with a kitchen to match.

Twiggy by La Cantine - Park Hyatt, Dubai Creek. The French-Riviera beach club on the creek at the Park Hyatt is a lovely lagoon-side daytime hangout, but it is a relaxed waterside lunch rather than a classic free-flow brunch institution. It is the wrong headliner for a brunch list. Use it for an easy creek-side afternoon and book Bagatelle or Bla Bla when you want the real brunch format.

How to do a Dubai brunch in 2026

Pick the day before the venue. The weekend brunch moved to Saturday when the UAE switched to a Monday-to-Friday week in 2022, so most of the big halls, COYA, Bagatelle, Saffron, Tomo and Brasserie Boulud, run on Saturday. The beach brunches are the exception: Bla Bla runs its pool party on Sunday. Check the day first, because a Friday booking that worked five years ago will not exist now.

Read the drinks tiers before you read the food. The headline number is almost always the soft package, and the real cost is the jump to the house, cocktail or Champagne tier. At COYA the spread runs from around AED 329 to AED 629, and at Bagatelle from AED 350 to AED 490. Decide if you want the bottomless package at all; the chef-led brunches like Reif's Buranchi are far better value if you are there for the plates rather than the pour.

Match the package to the afternoon you want. The mega-halls, Saffron and Bubbalicious, are for spectacle and volume with a big group; the chef brunches, Reif and Brasserie Boulud, are for the food and a calmer room; the view brunches, Tomo high above Wafi and the pool party at Bla Bla, are for the setting. Booking the wrong category is the single most common Dubai brunch mistake, so choose the energy first and the cuisine second.

Frequently asked

What is the best brunch in Dubai?

For the food, Reif Othman's Buranchi at his Dar Wasl kushiyaki room, where a single kitchen sends around thirty Japanese plates to order at about AED 238 per person rather than running a buffet. For the classic party spectacle, Saffron at Atlantis The Palm is the city's most famous, with roughly 200 dishes and a DJ. Pick by what you want: the plates or the party.

Is Dubai brunch on Friday or Saturday now?

Mostly Saturday. The UAE moved to a Monday-to-Friday working week in 2022, so the big weekend brunches at Saffron, COYA, Bagatelle, Tomo and Brasserie Boulud now run on Saturday. The main exception is the beach-club format: Bla Bla runs its pool brunch on Sunday. Always confirm the day when you book, because the old Friday convention is gone.

How much does brunch cost in Dubai?

It depends on the drinks tier. Soft packages start around AED 225 at value halls like Bubbalicious, while chef brunches like Reif's Buranchi run about AED 238. Add alcohol and the price climbs fast: COYA runs from roughly AED 329 soft to AED 629 with Champagne, and Saffron's house tier is around AED 535. Decide on the tier before you book.

Which Dubai brunch is best for families?

Bubbalicious at The Westin Mina Seyahi, for the space and the pool gardens, and Reif's Buranchi, where children under six eat free and six-to-twelves are half price. Both keep the daytime family-friendly. Skip the late-running party halls with young children, since the energy turns adult as the afternoon goes on.

Which Dubai brunch has the best view?

Tomo, on the seventeenth floor of the Raffles Dubai pyramid in Wafi, pairs floor-to-ceiling skyline glass with a serious Japanese kitchen and a calm pace, which makes it the best view brunch with food to match. For a beach-and-wheel backdrop instead, Bla Bla's Sunday pool brunch sits under the Ain Dubai observation wheel at JBR.

Do you need to book a Dubai brunch in advance?

Yes, the popular ones sell out, especially in cooler season from October to April. Book the big Saturday halls and the chef brunches a week or two ahead, and confirm the day, the start time and the drinks tier when you reserve. Walk-in space at the headline brunches is rare on a busy weekend.

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