Toshi: a new favorite restaurant for Dubai Media City folk

The Grand Millennium Dubai is an awkward hotel to locate being situated on the opposite side of the road to the extension of the Dubai Media City. But the modest effort is well worth it to discover the signature new Toshi Asian fusion restaurant with panoramic views from the 18th floor over the Palm island and Burj Al Arab.

This is the real New Dubai: Ultra chic and modern, luxurious yet comfortable, a genuine multi-cultural fusion. The food is also very good.

You can watch the chefs at work through the glass surrounding the kitchen and see the immaculately clean work surfaces and the finest produce being prepared. The restaurant is well sub-divided with intimate romantic corners for couples, and glass partitioned areas that would suit a corporate dinner.

We dined at night with the passing lights of the Sheikh Zayed Road a constant reminder of dynamic Dubai, and yet this restaurant has a very relaxed ambience in the school of Zen with active water features a reminder of a spa interior, and there is indeed a fine spa on the same floor.

The menu is a little unadventurous but comprehensive in its range of Asian dishes: from sushi to Peking Duck to Malaysian inspired curries. But that transparent kitchen is put to good use in cooking fresh products to perfection. And prices are a good deal lower than in the beach hotels.

The wine list is also sufficient, and a modest bottle of Argentinean chardonnay is not going to cost any more than in London these days.

My strong suspicion is that Toshi is going to become a very busy restaurant with the media and IT glitterati seeing it as an alternative watering hole to the SAS Radisson – which charges similar prices and delivers rather less. The views are excellent day or night, and this is just the venue to take the visiting boss or client that you wish to impress.
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