Best Restaurants in Business Bay: Six Different Meals Worth Planning Around

Business Bay is easier to eat in when you pick the kind of meal first. A za’atar man’oushe for breakfast, a plate of Old Delhi chole bhature, a Sunday roast, Central American cooking, a late dinner by the canal and a polished Cantonese lunch are six very different plans—and the prices below describe different things. This is a practical shortlist, not a claim that one restaurant beats every other one. Menu and offer details were checked on 7 October 2026.

Choose by the meal

Six Business Bay restaurants, six different plans

Mama’esh — Palestinian flatbread for a Business Bay delivery

At Mama’esh, the choice can stay simple: the Business Bay Deliveroo menu lists a Palestinian za’atar manaesh at AED12, Akkawi cheese at AED18 and five musakhan chicken rolls at AED39. The branch also lists breakfast trays at AED33–37, with bread, olives and vegetables alongside the named egg, cheese or hummus dishes. Those prices are for the branch’s delivery menu; delivery fees and minimum spend change with the selected address, and they are not a dine-in bill.

Visit Dubai lists Business Bay among Mama’esh’s locations and describes a Palestinian restaurant and bakery built around freshly baked manakeesh and home-style dishes. For a Business Bay delivery, the dedicated Deliveroo menu lets you choose between a single flatbread and a fuller breakfast tray; use the exact branch listing and checkout for current fees. The prices here are delivery-menu examples, not a claim about dine-in availability.

FRS Dilli Bites — Old Delhi snacks and named street-food plates

FRS Dilli Bites gives the area a focused Old Delhi street-food option. Its current menu prices two-piece chole bhature at AED21.95, a plate of chole chawal at AED14.95 and three-piece poori bhaji at AED14.95. If the meal should include a drink, the menu lists a chole bhature-and-lassi combo at AED30.45; prices are inclusive of 5% VAT. Samosa with chole and khasta kachori with sabji are each listed at AED5.45 per piece, useful if you are building a snack stop rather than ordering a main.

The shop is at G04, Bayswater Tower by Omniyat, on Marasi Drive. FRS describes its cooking as Old Delhi street food and names the Chandni Chowk tradition behind its menu. Choose it for a straightforward plate or a small snack spread; the published menu makes the unit clear, so the AED5.45 snack price is per piece, not a full plate.

The Blacksmith — smokehouse classics with a day-specific offer

The Blacksmith’s Business Bay branch leans into Southern-style smokehouse cooking, steaks and ribs. Thursday’s Australian minute steak, served with a choice of side, is AED77 per person from 5pm until sold out. On Sunday, roast dinner is listed at AED98, or AED128 with a pint or wine, from 1pm until sold out; the operator does not state the person/unit basis for those roast prices. Sunday also has live music from 2–5pm. A separate current schnitzel offer page lists AED44 for chicken schnitzel and AED55 for a Parmie add-on, while the branch landing page shows AED55 for schnitzel with sauce and green salad, so that conflicting offer is left out.

It is on the lobby level of The First Collection Business Bay, Al A’amal Street. Plan around the exact offer day and its sell-out condition; the Sunday beverage price is a separate choice, not included in AED98.

Girl & the Goose — a weekday lunch built around Central American cooking

Chef Gabriela Chamorro’s restaurant at Anantara Downtown draws on the cuisines of seven Central American countries, with Nicaraguan roots at its centre. For a weekday midday visit, the current OpenTable booking page lists its two-course Almuerzo business lunch at AED119–159 per person, Monday to Friday, noon to 4pm; the associated menu card labels the weekday lunch AED119, so select the tier and confirm the rate when booking. The same page lists Nicaraguan Steak Mondays at AED399 for two, available at lunch and dinner: starters, a 400g striploin, dessert and a bottle of wine.

For an à la carte order, the menu updated 17 September 2026 lists three Nicaraguan empanadas from AED55 and a short-rib clay pot at AED165 with five tortillas. The restaurant is at Anantara Downtown in Business Bay. It is the pick for a weekday lunch with a clear format, a shared Monday steak, or a menu built around Central American cooking.

OCCO Business Bay — broad choice for a canal-side evening

OCCO’s Business Bay menu ranges from mezze and sushi to pizza, pasta, grills and desserts. That breadth is useful when a table cannot settle on one cuisine: a Margherita is AED77, chicken biryani AED103, grilled salmon AED163 and Wagyu rib eye AED298 on the current branch menu. The operator lists a business lunch at AED119, with selected starters, mains, desserts and juices, and quotes “AED119 + AED29 with shisha.” The menu does not state the charge unit. The restaurant’s main page gives the business-lunch window as Monday to Friday, noon to 5pm.

The restaurant is at Hyde Dubai on Marasi Drive. Its official events page describes a waterfront venue with regular match nights and a Saturday Moroccan music-and-tagine event from 9pm to 3am. Those are reasons to check the event calendar, not an assumption that every night has live entertainment. OCCO works when the group wants one address for different appetites and a more animated evening; choose dishes from the branch menu rather than assuming its other location’s offers apply here.

China Tang Dubai — Cantonese lunch with the inclusions made explicit

China Tang brings a Cantonese set-menu option to The Lana Promenade on Marasi Drive. Its weekday Sir David’s Business Lunch runs Monday to Friday, noon to 3pm. The two-course Classic menu is AED148 and the three-course Signature menu AED168; both include one choice of coffee, tea, soft drink, or still or sparkling water. The operator says those prices include 5% VAT and 10% service charge and are subject to a 7% municipality fee. OpenTable displays AED158.36 and AED179.76 respectively after that fee is reflected, so check the final amount when booking.

For dinner, the OpenTable menu updated 21 September 2026 lists the signature Beijing duck at AED398 for half or AED698 whole. It does not state the guest count or accompaniments, so confirm what comes with the order and how many people the portion is intended to serve. China Tang also appears in DubaiTable’s Chinese-restaurants guide; here it earns a place for the distinct Business Bay decision—a weekday meal with a named course count and drink inclusion, or a half/whole duck order—not as a second general review of its cuisine.

Before you set out

Offer prices are not interchangeable: Mama’esh’s figures are from a delivery menu, FRS’s operator menu includes VAT, Blacksmith’s are tied to named days and sell-out times, and the two hotel restaurants publish set-menu prices with different inclusions and fee treatment. Confirm the branch, day, menu tier and final bill when reserving.