The Dubai Food Festival runs across the city's restaurants — set menus, neighbourhood trails, a street-food programme and awards — in a city where the resident population is around ninety per cent foreign-born and the food follows accordingly: Keralan, Filipino, Iranian, Levantine, Pakistani and Emirati within a few streets of one another.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
The arrival of the Michelin guide in Dubai in 2022 changed the festival's centre of gravity from street food towards the starred end, which is a shift worth noting rather than smoothing over.
The dates have moved repeatedly between February and May in recent editions, largely to avoid Ramadan.
PlanningAn April–May window; the dates move around Ramadan and have shifted repeatedly.
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