L'Avenue by Costes opens at The Dubai Mall, above the Dubai Fountain
The Paris restaurant from Avenue Montaigne has opened its first UAE branch on Fashion Avenue, open daily from 10am to 1am, with a Dh135 weekday business lunch.
L'Avenue by Costes, the Paris restaurant on Avenue Montaigne, has opened its first UAE branch at The Dubai Mall. It sits on the second floor of Fashion Avenue, with a terrace that looks straight onto the Dubai Fountain and Burj Khalifa, and it is open every day from 10am to 1am.
The idea is one address for the whole day. Mornings are fresh pastries, eggs, smoked fish and specialty coffee in the dining room or out on the terrace. Lunch mixes French brasserie classics with dishes from further afield, among them escargots, a truffle pizza, a spicy lobster pasta and a Tom Yam chili sea bass.
On weekdays there is a business lunch, Monday to Friday from 12pm to 4pm, chosen from the house signatures: Dh135 for two courses or Dh170 for three.
In the afternoon the room turns to tea, chocolate and dessert, with the Costes cheesecake, a warm chocolate tart, the Indécente profiterole, a raspberry millefeuille and an apple tart to share. Dinner runs late, from seafood and pasta to grills and French classics, under white sculpted chandeliers, with velvet seating inside and the terrace for the fountain shows.
There is also a listening room lined floor to ceiling with vinyl records, with a turntable on a table in the middle.
"In Dubai, we wanted to recreate that feeling with the city's most extraordinary view," said Laura E Silva, COO of YEEELS Group.
Tables can be booked on avenue-dubai.com or by WhatsApp on +971 56 162 1040.