Wine Dine and Play: Sushi, Grand Hyatt Dubai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dined in November 2016

By Sean Overpeck (CFE)

On the Atrium Level with very tranquil surroundings is the Sushi Restaurant at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai. Once you enter the hotel you have a feel of the ocean with the bottom of two boats that are built into and pert-rude from the ceiling. Below this and one or two levels down from the lobby you have several restaurants, and an open area surrounded by trees and walkways. Tucked away is the small Sushi restaurant where I got my fix for the first time in months. This was my experience…

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Main review:

I had originally came to the Grand Hyatt to eat at the Awtar Lebanese Restaurant, but it didn’t open for its famous meze meals until after 7pm in the evening, and with it being 5:30 and me having a reservation at a different hotel shortly after that time, I chose to have a small bite at Sushi. I began at the Cooz Wine Bar in the lobby, then made my way down walking through the atrium.

The restaurant had six or seven tables and a small sushi bar with nine seats, small enough for one server and three cooks along with the Sushi Master. The other two cooks were Filipino, and Arabic. Like most sushi restaurants the menu is à la carte consisting of starters such as edamame, agedashi tofu, sushi, maki, and sashimi rolls of hamachi, suzuki, ebi, otoro, and many others. I started with the miso shiru soybean soup with tofu and seaweed. It had a very earthy flavor, strongly seasoned to perfection with a little more salt than what I was used to, but still very enjoyable.

For the main course you could choose from several yakimono selections, tempura, donburi, menrui, and ebi selections. I had the hamachi salmon which had a wonderful flavor, but the accompanying items did lack bight. Over all the dish was nice though, and it went well with the saké.

Final notes and observations:

I base my restaurant reviews on five qualities from ambiance to wine to determine how I rate the overall experience. For the Sushi Restaurant, the ambiance could have been better inside the dining room itself, but the hotel atrium made up for that ten fold. The service staff was friendly, plate presentation as seen above was clean and artistically created, but the real wow factor as I call it was not really there. So, based on a zero to five star rating, they exceeded expectations giving them three stars.

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Food Prices

(excluding, alcohol, taxes & gratuity)

$£€¥ - Under 50.00

$£€¥ x 2 - 51.00- 99.00

$£€¥ x 3 - Over 100.00

$£€¥ x 4 - Over 200.00

$£€¥ x 5 - Over 400.00

**Currencies chosen reflect the world’s major travelers and restaurant connoisseur’s**

My food bill:	Currency:	Price chart:
د.إ81.00	Emirati Dirham (AED)	د.إ
$22.00	United States Dollar (USD)	$
$29.00	Australian Dollar (AUS)	$
£18.00	Great Britain Pound Sterling (GBP)	£
$29.00	Canadian Dollar (CAN)	$
¥153.00	Chinese Yuan (CNY)	¥¥¥
€21.00	European Union (EUR)	€

Currency rates as of January 2017

Alcohol Prices:

25.00 AED

Sushi:

Grand Hyatt Dubai

Sheikh Rashid Rd

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Contact Information:

Maître d or host:	+971 4 317 2221
Restaurant website:	Sushi
Serving hours: Emirate Standard Time (GMT +3:00)	Lunch: Mon-Sun 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Dinner: Mon-Sun 75:00 pm - 12:00 am
Email or webpage contact:	Contact Sushi
Social Media & Accolades:	Facebook link
	Twitter @grandhyattdxb
	Pinterest

Review basics:

Overall Star Rating:	3 of 5 Stars: Exceeded Expectations
Restaurant style:	Casual
Reservations:	Not Required Walk-Ins: Accepted
Child policy:	The Restaurants reviewed on this site may have a child’s menu or cater to them; however for full enjoyment of food and wine, it is recommended for children not to be in attendance, unless they have been trained in proper etiquette. Hire a Babysitter!
Dress code:	Casual
Cuisine style:	Contemporary, Seafood, Asian-fusion, Japanese, Fusion, & Vegetarian
Experiences:	Place for foodies, Trendy, Good for special occasions, Classy, Tourist grabber, and a Neighborhood gem.
Payments:	Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express
Parking:	Valet
Wifi	The restaurants reviewed on this site may have Wi-Fi, but do not require you to go online, because the excitement of the food and wine alone will keep you too entertained instead of checking your social media and emails.
Noise level:	Low
Smoking:	Nonsmoking restaurant
Patio:	No

****

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Reviewed by:

Sean Overpeck (CFE)

Picture below was taken in FOB Shank, Afghanistan

with James B. Mallory III, Major General (Retired);

CG 108th Training Command (IMT); Deputy CG

NATO TNG MISSION-AFGHANISTAN

About Sean:

I am based out of St. Petersburg, Florida working in the food service industry for the past twenty years, and am currently with the American Embassy as the Executive Chef in Basra, Iraq. Formally I have worked with groups contracting in Afghanistan, and Antarctica, also working in restaurants in and around Atlanta, Georgia prior to the wars. I have also owned a catering company and served proudly in the United States Army Food Service Program. The idea for Wine, Dine, and Play started in late 2012 after a trip to Jordan, when I was asked by friends to write down the experiences from a few Jordanian restaurants, wine from the region that I tasted, and locations of interest such as Petra. Since that time, over 250 articles have been written on restaurants, including fifteen from the worlds top 100 lists of San Pellegrino and the Elite Travelers Guide. There are articles on exotic world locations such as Victoria Falls, and South African Safari’s; food recipes & Grand Food Dictionaries; ethnic country cuisines such as Afghan, and Peruvian; tasting tours of world cities like Charleston, Cape Town, and Dubai; and of course wine from vineyards in California, Oregon, the Carolina’s, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, with much more to see and write about.

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