The Abu Dhabi Food Festival is back with a 17-day menu of culinary events featuring the world’s most delectable flavours from the region’s most celebrated chefs. With over 50 restaurants taking part and enveloping more than 5 specialist events, we know it’s hard to choose. So to help you, Yalla has hand picked 5 best Abu Dhabi food festival events that you mustn’t miss!
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Abu Dhabi Restaurant Week
DATES: 6-22 December
TIME: Timings vary
LOCATION: Multiple Outlets throughout the city
Attention foodies! Raise your forks ready for Abu Dhabi Restaurant Week happening through Sunday, 15 December in outlets all around the capital.
Eat your heart out in the capital with meals ranging from Dhs99 – 199 during restaurant week. Don’t hold back! Hit up all those restaurants that you’ve only dreamed of dining in and save big!!
The Abu Dhabi Food Festival is giving you just a few more reasons to indulge in your hobby this week thanks to the introduction of Abu Dhabi Restaurant Week. Through 15 December, some of the city’s finest eateries will be offering special set menus, giving foodies the chance to sample some of the best food around for either Dhs99, Dhs149 or Dhs199. With everyone from Jumeirah at Etihad Towers to Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi to the Shangri La and Anantara Eastern Mangroves offering discounted special menus, the hardest part about this festival is choosing your venue! Pick your price, book your table and dig into Abu Dhabi Restaurant Week.
Learn more about participating restaurants and menus, click here.
MAS Vegan Market
DATE: 14 December
TIME: 12-5 pm
LOCATION: The Terrace, Manarat Al Saadiyat
COST: FREE
If your resolution for 2019 is to get fit, you are not alone. The MAS Vegan Market is the perfect venue to drop by if you’d like to forgo the fatty and learn about the lighter side of dining. The Market will offer numerous holistic activities, so visitors can learn more about vegan lifestyle and explore healthy paths, whilst sampling some divine vegan fare. If you think healthy food can’t taste good, come to this market and prepare to be enlightened by its light offerings.
World of Food Abu Dhabi
DATES: 13-17 December
TIME: 4 pm – 11 pm on weekdays, 4 pm – 12 am on weekends
LOCATION: The Amphitheatre, Umm Al Emarat Park
COST: FREE
Head over to Um Al Emarat Park and enjoy a global tasting tour of more than a dozen countries combined with signature menus from award-winning Master chefs. And to top off this 5-day foodie (and Instagrammer’s) extravaganza, have a blast or brush up your skills with a calendar of events like cake decorating demonstrations, live music, cooking shows, coffee-brew bars, and too many other fantastic competitions to list. To top it off, enjoy delicious desserts, BBQ bonanza, Worldchefs President’s Daily Dish, Daily Emirati Dishes, New Concept Food Trucks and Coffee Brew Bar. Sample some of the best tastes on the planet, all in one beautiful park.
Learn more at www.worldoffoodad.com
Food Movie Screenings
DATE: 9, 11, 16, 18, 20 December
TIME: 8 pm
LOCATION: Theatre at Manarat Al Saadiyat
COST: FREE
Do you love food, cinema, and want to learn about all the food traditions of from all over the world? Then this food screening is for you as it combines all your favourite activities into cinematic evening. Enjoy a night of cinema that revolves around food, Mexican food, in particular. Note, you may leave hungry so look into nearby Latin American restaurants to enjoy a fourth meal afterwards or nosh on some tasty Italian at L’Arte the Manarat Al Saadiyat.
Fam Food Feast
DATES: 19-22 December
TIME: 1-9 pm
LOCATION: Umm Al Emarat Park
COST: AED 25
This wholesome family food festival allows families who love food the opportunity to enjoy delicacies from around the globe in a fun and festive environment. The feast will serve up firm family favourite courses, such as appetizers, main courses, sweets, and beverages. Parents can also get a little festive shopping done with a collection of toys and souvenir items that are on the offer at the FamStore.
The entertainment line-up will keep families entertained as they dine and shop with top kids shows from the US on the main stage. The Mother Goose Club will perform live on stage in Abu Dhabi alongside everyone’s favourite Pinkfong & Baby Shark Show. There will also be a Whitney Houston tribute for fans of the late diva. Belinda Davids who has the voice power, range, and talent of Whitney Houston, will perform as part of her world tour. You can also expect to tap your toes to the phenomenal dance group, Champion of India’s Dancing Superstar, Team Shraey Khanna. Also performing is a talented group of Filipino teens who are champions of the World Supremacy Battleground Dance Competition who will dance to the beats of talented Filipino Singers and musicians Jason Dy & JK Labajo.
Beyond all that amazing entertainment will be Kids and Family Activities and fun bonding opportunities everywhere. There will be an area dedicated to bringing the family together, to build happy memories with the cool breezes of December drawing everyone outside. The Fam Food Feast a festive food-inspired day out for the whole family. To learn more, click here.
For more information about the Abu Dhabi Food Festival, click here.
To see our full list of events in Abu Dhabi, check out our Events Diary.
