Dubai Restaurant Week lineup

Dubai Restaurant Week will run from May 1 to May 17, with more than 125 restaurants offering fixed-price menus across the city. (visitdubai.com) Visit Dubai says lunch menus will cost AED125 and dinner menus AED250 during the 17-day event. The city’s tourism site says the promotion covers restaurants “across the city,” not a single dining district. (visitdubai.com) The organizer’s announcement says the 2026 lineup includes more than 30 MICHELIN Guide-listed restaurants, including one Michelin-starred venue. It also names chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Gordon Ramsay, Izu Ani, Alvin Leung, Akira Back, Kelvin Cheung and Hadrien Villedieu. (zawya.com) Gulf News reported the wider festival roster at more than 125 restaurants spanning more than 25 cuisines. The same report said the event is positioned as a citywide showcase of Dubai’s dining scene rather than a single chef series. (gulfnews.com) The MICHELIN tie-in lands as Dubai’s guide has expanded quickly since launch. The MICHELIN Guide’s 2025 Dubai selection listed starred restaurants and selected venues across the city, giving the festival a deeper bench of recognized names to draw from. (guide.michelin.com) This year’s edition also adds a distribution change: bookings are integrated into Careem DineOut, according to the event announcement and follow-up coverage. That shifts reservations onto a mass-market local app instead of a separate festival-only path. (zawya.com) (qahwaworld.com) The chef list mixes imported luxury brands with Dubai-based operators. The announcement pairs global names with local concepts including Girl & The Goose by Gabriela Chamorro, signaling that the event is selling both destination dining and homegrown restaurants. (zawya.com) For diners, the pitch is straightforward: book between May 1 and May 17, pick from fixed-price lunch or dinner menus, and access restaurants that usually trade at higher average checks. For Dubai, the event doubles as a tourism-season food promotion built around names the MICHELIN Guide and celebrity-chef audiences already recognize. (visitdubai.com) (guide.michelin.com)