The tables everyone's talking about.

Dubai’s original British gastropub, with breakfast from 8am, a lakeside garden, proper pub classics and a packed weekly diary.

Nayzak is the all-day restaurant inside Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, with a globally minded menu, exact prices, terrace seating and online reservations.

A colourful Peruvian dining room at Four Seasons Al Maryah Island, with ceviche, charcoal grills and a serious Pisco bar.

Cyril Lignac's French-Japanese dining room on the 51st floor of ICD Brookfield Place.

Zuma's polished Abu Dhabi outpost at The Galleria, combining sushi, robata and waterfront views with dependable big-night energy.

The original DIFC modern-Japanese heavyweight, built around sushi, robata and a perpetually charged room.

A mountaintop tasting-menu restaurant 293 metres above Zighy Bay, with a cinematic terrace looking across the Musandam coast.

Borderless, deeply personal cooking from three brothers, rooted in Syria and fluent in Dubai.

A maximalist, ultra-luxury tasting experience merging Nordic and Asian ideas.

A rooftop chef's counter telling a highly personal Dubai story course by course.

An intimate tasting-menu restaurant pushing modern Indian cooking into its own orbit.

Bold, borderless cooking with a lively Downtown dining room.

A rooftop garden lounge drawing across the Middle East and North Africa.

Lively Spanish tapas with a glossy Etihad Towers backdrop.

Jazz-age styling and polished Japanese cooking in Restaurant Village.

A compact harbour-side restaurant serving contemporary Asian food with Japanese influence.

A relaxed Mediterranean restaurant at Yas Marina.

An intimate Japanese izakaya and ramen restaurant in The Onyx.

A contemporary Japanese restaurant at Mamsha Al Saadiyat.