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The UAE's British restaurant edit.

From 11 matching venues, 2 researched picks made the cut.

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For British restaurants in the UAE, start with Reform Social & Grill for lakeside garden and proper pub atmosphere and JB’s Gastropub for live sport and sociable atmosphere. Every restaurant shown here has enough editorial research to earn its place; the wider directory is kept separate.

Roasts, pub classics and polished British cooking for days when restraint feels overrated.

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Reform Social & Grill

The Lakes, Dubai

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

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We edit for food, character, value, setting and genuine usefulness, not for the size of a marketing budget.

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