The ultimate restaurant guide to Atlantis The Royal

World-renowned British chef, Heston Blumenthal brings his signature creative gastronomy to Atlantis The Royal. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal is a contemporary take on British and European cuisine from 1300s to 1800s. 

Diners can taste Medieval Britain from a modern perspective with a playful menu featuring Meat Fruit, a mandarin and chicken liver parfait followed by Tipsy Cake, a pineapple dessert from 1810. 

Prepare to have your senses transported back in time while you relax in the restaurant’s modern brown booths and mint green chairs. 

Our favourite dish: 

All is not as it seems with the Meat Fruit, a starter that’s guaranteed to begin your dinner with a bang. 

Look closely, and you’ll see the clue is hidden in the name. The perfectly realistic mandarin is filled with a delicious chicken liver parfait. The peal is a mandarin jelly. Genius. 

Open for: Dinner - 7 days a week (6.00pm - 11.00pm)
Dress code: Smart Casual
Cuisine: Contemporary British inspired by 1300s - 1800s

One of the best Mediterranean seafood restaurants in the world, Estiatorio Milos is coming to Dubai. Helmed by the acclaimed Chef Costas Spiliadis, diners can expect high-class Hellenic fine dining grounded in simplicity.

Greek hospitality and tradition are encapsulated in its sea -inspired menu. Gather your nearest and dearest over sharing platters heaped with freshly caught fish and seafood presented in their purest forms.

All dishes are finished with a brush of Aegean rock salt or a drizzle of olive oil from centuries old Koroneiki olive trees. Take a table outside on the terrace and dine with front row seats to the thrilling SkyBlaze Fountain, a dance between fire and water.  

Our favourite dish: 

Eat a meal fit for Greek Gods with the restaurant’s signature cured fish selection. A cooking method first used in Ancient Greece, curing fish enhances the umami seafood flavours. 

Indulge in an Avgotaraho platter featuring the world’s finest gently cured roe of the Messolongi grey mullet. If you’re undecided, you can’t go wrong with the Milos Superior Cured Fish Platter, a chef’s selection for two to four people. 

Open for: Lunch and Dinner - 7 days a week (12:00pm – 3:00pm / 6.00pm - 11.00pm)
Dress code: Smart Casual
Cuisine: Mediterranean seafood 

Travel from Dubai to South America for the evening at La Mar Dubai by Gastón Acurio, an experimental Peruvian restaurant. 

Celebrity Chef Gastón Acurio celebrates the diverse flavours of Peruvian gastronomy. Diners can expect to feast on offerings from all corners of the country with culinary techniques and flavours inspired by its mix of Indigenous cultures. 

Expect freshly grilled anticucho street food favourites combined with hearty causas potato dumplings and sashimi style tiraditos. Wash it all down with a glass of traditional Pisco. 

Sit around tables underneath elegant lighting or enjoy chefs at work at the bar. Afterwards, take your cocktails to the outside terrace bar for the perfect sundowner. 

Our favourite dish: 

You can’t go wrong with simple yet flavoursome anticuchos, a take on the classic street food dish of the Andes. 

Typically, a grilled meat dish, La Mar’s menu features versions with chicken thighs, veal heart or octopus - portobello mushrooms for vegetarians. All anticuchos are served with Peruvian potatoes and aromatic sides. 

Open for: Dinner - 7 days a week (6.00pm - 11.00pm)
Dress code: Smart Casual
Cuisine: Peruvian

Award-winning culinary innovator and only chef to have a two Michelin-star restaurant and four Bib Gourmands, José Andrés brings the classic flavours of Spain to Atlantis The Royal. 

Jaleo Dubai is the place to go to celebrate great food and friendship. The menu is brimming with sharing platters designed to impress while the summery sangria keeps the conversation flowing. 

José Andrés takes inspiration from his favourite childhood dishes combined with the rich culinary diversity of Spain. Tuck into signature tapas, comforting paellas and the finest Iberian selection of cheeses, wines, and sherries. 

Our favourite dish: 

The culinary chef-d'œuvre is instilled in the classic and traditional tapas and for that, the Jaleo Experience platter is unmissable. 

The tasting menu is a flavoursome tour of Spain and features all the most popular dishes on the menu – the ones that have diners raving about them for days. 

Expect the likes of Serrano ham and Manchego cheese, traditional chicken fritters, patatas bravas and flan with Catalan cream for dessert. Utter heaven. 

Open for: Dinner - 7 days a week (6.00pm - 11.00pm), Saturday brunch
Dress code: Smart Casual
Cuisine: Spanish

Award-winning Chef Ariana Bundy instils the feeling of coming home at Ariana’s Persian Kitchen. Wholesome meals with flavours and aromas of a traditional Persian household provide pure comfort. All dishes are cooked with finesse so taste buds will be in their element too. 

Ariana’s debut restaurant is a female-led concept that brings Iranian cuisine to the fore with modern twists on time-honoured classics. You’re welcomed into the fold with family recipes that have been handed down through the generations. 

Dine on dishes with a tapestry of herbs, rice, meat, vegetables, nuts alongside fruits such as pomegranate and spices including Iranian saffron. At Ariana’s Persian Kitchen, nutritious food and generous hospitality are a standard. 

Our favourite dish: 

End the meal on a high with Jelleye Anar – otherwise known as Pomegranate Jelly. Reminiscent of Ariana’s childhood, this simple yet decadent dessert is served with heaps of pomegranate seeds, rose petals and gold leaf. 

Open for: Dinner - 7 days a week (6.00pm - 11.00pm) / Lunch Saturday and Sunday (12pm - 3pm)
Dress code: Smart Casual
Cuisine: Iranian 

Get the party started at Ling Ling by Hakkasan, your destination for Pan-Asian dining and cocktails late into the night. If it’s anything like Hakkasan at Atlantis The Palm, prepare to be blown away by its celebrated Chinese cuisine that’s awarded its sister restaurants a Michelin star. 

Located on the 23rd floor of Atlantis The Royal, Ling Ling Dubai features a chic dining room, lounge club and outdoor terraces with jaw-dropping views of a 90-metre Sky Pool and beyond to the city skyline. 

Taking you effortlessly from day to night, eating to drinking and dancing is a natural transition here so lean back and let yourself be swept along - in which order is up to you. ‘Arrive early, leave late’ is Ling Ling’s motto. 

Our favourite dish: 

Bring your friends for a Ling Ling Escape, a continuous flow of plates featuring mouth-watering dim-sum, caviar, golden-fried soft-shell crab, wok-baked whole spiny lobster, seared Angus beef, stir-fried asparagus and egg-fried rice. 

To finish, we have our eye on the Cacao Pod with cinnamon crumble candied ginger or the Spiky Lemon served with yuzu calamansi mousse. 

Open for: Dinner (6pm - 1am)
Dress code: Smart casual 
Cuisine: Modern Pan-Asian

Craving something sweet and indulgent? Premium British luxury cake atelier Little Venice Cake Company is opening a store at Atlantis The Royal. 

Founder, award-winning baker and ‘Queen of Couture Cakes’ Mich Turner MBE has styled the Dubai atelier to make guests feel like they’ve stepped into her inner sanctum. The experience promises to be one of theatre and magic conjured up by a hypnotic array of exquisite cakes. 

Decadent treats will be served on bespoke china, with engraved silverware and specially blended teas. In other words, it’s a spread fit for garden parties at Buckingham Palace. Speaking of which, Little Venice Cake Company’s most prestigious customer was Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee. 

If you’re celebrating a special occasion, you might want to book an exclusive ‘by appointment only’ cake consultation reserved for the most discerning of customers. 

Our favourite dish: 
The very depiction of the phrase ‘looks good enough to eat,’ the vanilla biscuit stacks with Chantilly cream, edible flowers and fresh berries are exquisite. 

Cuisine: British

Want to make sure everyone is catered for? Head to Gastronomy, a food market buffet-style restaurant. Take a trip around the world as you dine on fresh farm-to-table cuisine using only the finest quality ingredients. 

Grab a plate of sizzling fajitas or wander over to the live oyster bar. Enjoy heavenly smells of freshly baked bread, watch a personalised meal cooked before your very eyes or circle back again to the dessert station. Honestly, the possibilities are endless. One thing’s for sure, a treasure trove of flavours awaits you at Gastronomy.  

Open for: Breakfast and dinner
Dress code: Casual 
Cuisine: International