Dubai Restaurant Week set

Dubai Restaurant Week will run from May 1 to May 17, putting fixed-price menus at more than 125 restaurants on offer across the city. (visitdubai.com) Visit Dubai says the 2026 edition will price two-course lunches at AED125 and three-course dinners at AED250. The event page describes it as a 17-day citywide promotion built around specially curated menus. (visitdubai.com) The line-up spans more than 25 cuisines and includes more than 30 Michelin Guide-listed restaurants, according to Gulf News. The paper also reported that at least one Michelin-starred venue is part of this year’s roster. (gulfnews.com) That mix reflects how Dubai now sells its food scene: not just hotel dining rooms, but homegrown concepts, celebrity-chef venues and internationally recognized restaurants in one booking window. Visit Dubai’s dining guides now market the city with the Michelin Guide as a central draw. (visitdubai.com) Dubai’s tourism arm has tied restaurant promotions more closely to destination marketing as it pushes food alongside retail, events and hotels. Restaurant Week sits inside that wider events calendar, which Visit Dubai uses to package seasonal reasons to travel. (visitdubai.com) Ahmed Al Khaja, chief executive of Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment, said participation has grown from 30 restaurants at launch to more than 125 this year. That expansion was reported by Gulf News and repeated by other regional outlets covering the 2026 launch. (gulfnews.com) The Michelin angle is new context for a relatively young event because Dubai’s guide is also recent. Michelin’s Dubai selection now lists 14 one-star restaurants in the emirate, giving the city a larger pool of prestige venues to fold into mainstream dining promotions. (guide.michelin.com) One of those one-star names is Orfali Bros Bistro, which Visit Dubai describes as an award-winning family restaurant led by chef Mohammad Orfali. The tourism site separately refers to the Orfali Bros group as Michelin-starred in its restaurant coverage. (visitdubai.com) Bookings for the May 1-17 run are now live through the official event page, which pitches the promotion as a way to try “favourite restaurants across the city for less.” For diners, the sales pitch is simple: fixed prices, limited dates and a much wider field than the 30-restaurant launch. (visitdubai.com)