The Best Brunch in Dubai (2026): Where to Book, and Which Day
Dubai brunch moved to Saturday. A guide to the beach, skyline, long-lunch and brunch-into-party formats, with the day and time each room actually serves.
Dubai brunch is not a meal, it is a format: a long, set-price, usually bottomless sitting that runs for three or four hours and functions as the city's main social event of the week. If you have read an older guide that told you to book Friday, that guide is out of date. Look at when these rooms actually serve it and the answer is overwhelmingly Saturday, with Sunday second. Friday brunch still exists, but it is now the exception rather than the rule.
Below are the Dubai rooms we book brunch at, grouped by the kind of afternoon you want rather than by neighborhood.
The beach and pool brunches
Nikki Beach on Pearl Jumeira runs the most structured week of any room on this list: Coastal Girls Club on Tuesdays, The Social Residency on Wednesdays, a poolside brunch on Saturdays and the Amazing Sundays brunch to close the week, each with resident DJs. If you want brunch that turns into a day on a sunbed, start here.
African Queen on J1 Beach keeps a single standing fixture, the Saturday Call of the Jungle brunch, built around the beachfront seafood and family-style platters the room is known for.
Maison Revka at Delano on Bluewaters pairs Slavic-French cooking with a pool club, and the room works as comfortably for a business brunch as for a large group celebration.
The skyline brunches
Ce La Vi on the 54th floor of Address Sky View runs a Saturday Skyline Brunch and a weekend Asian Sunday Roast, with the Burj Khalifa directly in the window and a club lounge that takes over after dark. It is the clearest example of a Dubai brunch that does not end when the plates go.
The Penthouse at FIVE Palm Jumeirah is the one to know if you specifically want the old Friday format: it runs a Friday Skyline Brunch alongside Skyline Saturdays, both with live performers.
Mott 32 on the 73rd floor of Address Beach Resort is built for celebratory dinners and its Saturday brunch more than for a casual drop-in. Treat it as an occasion booking.
The long lunch brunches
Josette in ICD Brookfield Place is a theatrical Parisian brasserie, and weekends add a long brunch with afternoon tea available by request. The most grown-up option on this page.
Alici on Bluewaters runs its weekend brunch across Saturday and Sunday afternoons, seafood-led and paced for the terrace rather than the dance floor.
COYA on Jumeirah Beach runs weekend brunch alongside regular dinner service, with the Peruvian fire and pisco program intact.
La Nina inside ICD Brookfield Place carries Iberian and Latin American sharing plates into a weekend brunch service, with music that builds through the afternoon.
The Japanese brunches
Roka runs a lively family brunch, which is unusual in a city where brunch skews adult and loud. Worth knowing if the group includes children.
Akira Back at W Dubai The Palm serves a separate Saturday brunch sitting from 1pm to 4:30pm, distinct from its dinner service.
Netsu at Mandarin Oriental Jumeira builds its Saturday brunch around the warayaki straw fire: tuna tataki, Korean fried chicken and Australian wagyu ribeye, closing on a dessert platter.
MayaBay beside the turtle lagoon at Jumeirah Al Naseem serves weekend brunch Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 5pm.
Ronin on level 9 of FIVE LUXE JBR adds a Saturday brunch with the same terrace views as its dinner service.
The brunch that becomes a party
Cavo in Business Bay runs Sound of Tulum, a brunch-into-party date that is one of the venue's signature weekend bookings, six floors up with the Burj Khalifa in view.
Bagatelle inside Fairmont Dubai inverts the format entirely with Late Brunch Sunday, an evening sitting built around signature dishes, drinks and music.
Asia Asia on the sixth floor of Pier 7 runs a Saturday brunch and a Sunday lunch, on top of a Tuesday ladies' night with a resident DJ.
Tasca by Jose Avillez at Mandarin Oriental Jumeira keeps its Saturday brunch to a defined window, 12:30pm to 4pm, which makes it one of the easier ones to build a day around.
How to book a Dubai brunch
Brunch is the hardest weekend booking in Dubai and the one most often sold out a week ahead, particularly through the October to March season when the terraces are usable all afternoon. Packages differ sharply between rooms, so the thing to confirm before you commit is what the price actually includes and how long the sitting runs.
Tell our Dubai partner your date, your group size and whether you want the beach, the skyline or the long lunch version, and they will come back with the rooms that still have space.
Build a custom itinerary with our concierge team. Pair the venues mentioned above into a single concierge-confirmed evening. See the full Las Vegas events calendar for every upcoming DJ and pool party across the city.
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