The Top 26 Places to Drink Near Shabestan
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 4. Mimi Kakushi
Contemporary Japanese
The bar program here landed at No. 36 on the World's 50 Best Bars list, which is a lot for a restaurant inside a Four Seasons to live up to, and yet the kitchen keeps pace. Mimi Kakushi is a contemporary Japanese dining room and cocktail bar where sushi, wagyu, and donabe rice pots share the evening with drinks that have made the global circuit. The crowd arrives dressed for it, and the room obliges.
- 50 Best #36 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best #35 · MENA's 50 Best Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 5. Bar 44
Cocktail Bar
The circular bar on the 44th floor of Grosvenor House earns the name, with views over the marina that make it easy to forgive the champagne-bar origins and the flashier crowd that came with them. This is a cocktail bar now, properly, with lounge rooms off to the sides for anyone who wants to sit somewhere quieter and pretend they planned ahead. The jetset still shows up, but so does everyone else.
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Rank 6. La Petite Maison (LPM) Dubai
Mediterranean Cuisine, French
An old-school institution in DIFC where regulars rattle off their order without glancing at the menu, which tells you most of what you need to know. LPM is a French-Mediterranean restaurant and bar with white walls, bright art, and a Mediterranean breeziness that somehow survives the Dubai setting. The bar sits at No. 60 on The World's 50 Best Bars list, and the cocktail program draws on Jean Cocteau's life, which is a more interesting premise than it sounds.
- 50 Best #60 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best #27 · MENA's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 7. Okku
Japanese
The bar at this Japanese restaurant-bar in the Monarch Hotel runs impossibly narrow, which somehow makes it feel more like a scene than an inconvenience. Regulars wedged in shoulder-to-shoulder are usually debating which large-format bottle to order next, but the bartenders behind the counter are quietly serious about what they're doing. A high-energy cocktail bar with a mezzanine-level address and prices to match the postcode.
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Rank 8. Zuma
Contemporary Japanese
Three separate kitchens, a sweeping staircase, and brass-and-aged-steel walls that lean into the drama: Zuma is a contemporary Japanese restaurant that treats restraint as someone else's problem. The robata grill and sushi counter share space with a main kitchen, and the grilled meats and seafood are where the room's energy lands. It holds a spot on MENA's 50 Best Restaurants, and the terrace handles post-dinner drinks when Dubai's evening air cooperates.
- 50 Best #34 · MENA's 50 Best Restaurants
- Difford's Guide 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. Sexy Fish
Japanese, Asian
A Damien Hirst octopus greets you on the ground floor before a glass lift delivers you to a dimly lit, seabed-themed dining room and bar where every surface seems to be doing something. The Japanese and pan-Asian sharing plates hold their own against the décor, which is saying something. The balcony terrace has sweeping DIFC skyline views, and the bathroom has its own fan base on Instagram, independently.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 12. Amazónico Dubai
Peruvian
Three floors of tropical greenery in the middle of DIFC, where the Amazon rainforest aesthetic gets taken very seriously and the bar keeps pace with the dining room. The Latin American menu wanders from sushi to grilled meats, which sounds chaotic but tracks with the Amazon basin's many communities. First-floor tables face the open kitchen; the panoramic terrace is the move for a cocktail before or after.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 13. 1920
Cocktail Bar
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- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Middle East & Africa
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Middle East & Africa
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 19. COYA Dubai
Peruvian
The pisco bar alone draws a crowd before anyone touches the ceviche menu. This Peruvian restaurant and bar sits inside the Four Seasons' outdoor Restaurant Village, where the room runs loud and candlelit and nobody seems to be eating alone. The kitchen works the Nikkei angle hard, with ceviches in several directions and a sweetcorn meringue pavlova that sounds odd until it doesn't. Cocktail credentials are no afterthought; the bar team placed among the regional top ten in the Spirited Awards.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa
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Rank 22. ROKA Dubai
Japanese
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Middle East & Africa
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