Dubai Food Festival 2025 would promise to be an unmatched rejoicing over diverse culinary delights harmonizing global tastes. This is the carnival where food admirers would come to rejoice just the right playground where traditional and current cooking will converge. From true carnival foods to elite venues, the festival presents every alternative in between. Let’s delve deeper into 2025 DFF guide encompassing first time visitor or someone who has been stopping over for years.
What is the DFF about?
The Dubai Festival of Food, to be unfolded at the Media City Amphitheater, is about commemorating culinary assortment through events & competitions. It exhibits how Dubai city eats- from the highest to the very lowest delivery of gourmet food- as a reflection of cultural richness.
Dubai Festival of Food Date
When is Dubai Food Festival in 2025? It is dated 14th up to 16th February, 2025.
Dubai Festival of Food Location
DFF in 2025 will be held at the celebrated Media City Amphitheater
Why Attend It?
- Showcase of Dubai’s emergent food scene from varied restaurants in Dubai
- Alongside delectable cuisines, also take pleasure of cultural presentations commemorating UAE food traditions
- Opens rooms to explore first-rate restaurants and partake in elating activities
- Meet celebrated chefs and familiarize about up-and-coming culinary trends
- Partake in infinite participatory activities from cooking demonstrations to workshops for an engaging encounter.
Two Gala Events
1. Taste of Dubai
14th until 16th February, 2025, Media City Amphitheater will feature,
- Drinks accessible at licensed outlets
- DJs alongside live music
- Culinary workshops with celebrated chefs
- Pop-ups from Dubai’s 16 top-notch restaurants including rooftop bars and lounges, the complete line-up comprising
- (a) Miss Lily’s
- (b) City Social
- (c) Indya by Vineet
- (d) Harummanis
- (e) Maya by Richard Sandoval
- (f) Moti Mahal
- (g) Rhodes W1
- (h) Goldfish Sushi & Yakitori
- (i) Demon Duck
- (j) Osteria Funkcoolio
- (k) Lena
- Celebratory Chefs: the complete line-up comprising
- (a) Tarek Ibrahim
- (b) Akmal Anuar
- (c) Fred Casagrande
- (d) Hattem Mattar
- (e) Jenny Morris
- (f) Cameron Lamb
- (g) Eric Lanlard
- (h) Jose Pizarro
- (i) Dani Garcia
- (j) Annabel Garcia
- (k) Marco Pierre White
Key Highlights
- Dibba Bay Oyster Shuck Off
- Homegrown Brands
- Artisan vendors
- Annabel Karmel’s participatory kids cooking workshops
Tickets
Adults : General Admission AED 75/Taster Package AED 180/VIP Package AED 325/Sunday VIP Brunch AED 375
Kids : Free of cost under 12 accompanied through guardians, a ticket is obligatory for VIP, Taster as well as brunch packages
Getting There
- By Car: Head southwest from Dubai Marina on King Salman Bin Abdulaziz A1 Saud St, en route A1 Sufouh Rd up to Dubai Media City.
- Public Transit-:From Red Line go towards Metro Station in Dubai Internet City
- Taxi: Ride hailing services alongside taxis are accessible to the designated Dubai Media City
2. Gulfood
17th until 21st February, 2025, Dubai World Trade Centre will feature,
- 5,500 plus exhibitors spanning over 190 countries
- Showcase of variegated products-world food, fats and oils, grains and cereals, pulses, meat and poultry, dairy, and beverages
- Commemoration of Gulfood’s 30th anniversary
- Industry conferences, cooking demonstrations up close live, sustainable food production, traditional-fusion cuisines, plant-based alternatives
Tickets
Visitor passes at AED 495
Acquire the limited set of free passes
Getting There
- Metro: Opt for the Red Line/Metro 1 towards WTC station, spanning a mere 0.2 kilometers stroll to the designated venue
- Bus: Lines F11, 98E, & 21 towards metro station of WTC, bus lines 61, 55, 29, & 27 towards WTC Hotel 1 stop
- Car : Use GPS to reach Sheikh Zayed Rd at ease
Dubai Restaurant Week
During this week, numerous outlets from Toro Toro to Bella alongside Bread Street Kitchen amid others will be exhibiting their exclusive menu offerings with the globe’s top chefs, which also comprise Gordon Ramsay. Relish delectable two-course lunches starting AED 125 and scrumptious three-course dining starting at AED 250. People can also relish variegated delicacies virtually via a food tour online across the participating restaurants listed. These comprise,
- Zheng He’s
- Yaba by Chef Shaheen
- Twiggy by La Cantine
- Torno Subito by Massimo Bottura
- Sucre
- Shabestan
- Roka
- Rhodes W1
- Reif Japanese Kushiyaki
- Pierchic
- Nuska Beach
- North Miznon
- Ninive
- MINA Brasserie
- Mimi Kakushi
- Bastion
- Ariana’s Persian Kitchen
- Maison Mathis
- LOWE
- LA Cantine Du Faubourg
- KINARA by Vikas Khanna
- Kayto
- Jun’s
- Jaleo by Jose Andres
- Inti
- Indya by Vineet
- Ibn AIBahr
- Hutong
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen
- French Riviera
- Folly
- AI Nafoorah
- AI Khayma Heritage Restaurant
- Fi’lia
- Eunoia by Carine
- Demon Duck by Alvin Leung
- COYA Dubai
- Clay Dubai
- Clap
- City Social
- CE LA VI
- Carnival by Tresind
- Carna by Dairo Cecchini
- Canary Club
- Brasserie Boulud
- BOCA
- Belcanto
- BB Social Dining
- Akira Back
- 3fils
- 21 Grams
Waves meet Flavors at Beach Canteen
Entry to this Jumeirah Beach’s & Beach Canteen certainly tops the palette of Dubai Food Festival highlights that comprise pop-up restaurants to food trucks alongside live entertainment. Besides signature delicacies from the finest eateries, marine sights, and secret gems at lesser-known stalls, this energy is a place for family, friends as well as the solo voyager.
Culinary Tours: Uncovering Dubai’s Rich Food Heritage
Get on board on food expeditions that explore Dubai’s gastronomic heritage, guide you through its effervescent neighborhoods, and highlight miscellaneous flavors. From best Emirati food to creative fusion delicacy, such tours give you glimpses into this metropolis’ food culture, comprising local chefs to iconic plates, and impressive tastes from an ever-evolving culinary city.
Master Classes & Workshops: Insights from Proficient Chefs
The DFF 2025 will incorporate workshops to master classes by advanced chefs as Dani Garcia to Marco Pierre White presenting valuable insights. Attendees will augment their skills, familiarize proficient practices and work and learn firsthand from these world-famed chefs.
All-Aged Activities
From participatory exhibits to hands-on culinary workshops, elating truck rallies to games having food themes, relish it all beneath the same roof. Cooking sessions- Little Chefs is the prime highlight.
What’s More?
Sustainability Moves
- Environmentally-friendly cooking habits- green eateries to sustainable food making & farm to table
- Curtailing food waste
- Focus on regional produce
- Plant-centric alternatives
- Conscious modes of cooking workshops
Hidden Gems
These houses variegated categories of unique, petite eatery trails, pop ups as well as tempting food trucks that are inimitable and serves food palettes that are inventive, real, as well as never sampled earlier.
Coffee Scenes
- Brew flavored to classic blends
- Endeavor in ingenious workshops
- Hone the knack of coffee brewing
Savor Dubai’s Supreme
With the intent to widen local agriculture and to put out matchless gastronomic masterpieces, the Dubai city’s culinary scene shows off excellent homegrown adaptations. Also experience the ingenious culinary visionaries and applauded chefs crafting rare creations. Cross your eyes on the complete livery compilation of food wheels/trucks all over the City of Gold, tempted as the most luscious tacos, and scrumptious desserts. Let these take the ecstasy high with fun fairs as well as live exhilarating DJ shows and energy-charged live bands. The mere notion that Food Festival in Dubai centers absolutely on food is a misconception for sure. It incorporates untold majestic sights where the experience can be amplified further like Burj Khalifa, the composed Jumeirah Beach, the culture-filled Jumeirah Beach, and more thus enriching explorers’ time even more there.
Time and again Dubai city unveils uniting and elating events that along with assuring a superb time also remains etched in one’s memory of which DFF is a quintessential representation. Coming February in Dubai dive into this splendid feast of taste alongside goodness, leaving you hooked.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
Q1. Where is DFF 2025 scheduled to be held?
DFF in 2025 will be held at the celebrated Media City Amphitheater
Q2. Can I return my DFF ticket for refund?
No, you cannot return your DFF ticket for refund.
Q3. Can my pet escort me at this event?
No, unfortunately your pet cannot escort you to this event.
Q4. Is filming alongside photography permissible at DFF?
Filming equipment alongside photography is not permissible for commercial gain devoid of any written consent of the organizer.