came here for a team celebration meal. the staff was very attentive, the decor and ambience is lovely and you get agreatview of the water if you sit outside. the food however needs to step up a notch to match up to everything else. considering the price you are paying, you would expect much more from the food.
to start, they offer complimentary bread and an olive bowl, which was great. drinks were also very good, i had an ice coffee and the passionfruit mocktail mojito. as an entree, i had the argula with pear and goats cheese salad, only ate half because you can only eat so much argula! my team ordered various antipasties, the mozerella with eggplant and the beef prosciutto looked like it tasted best. i would recommend sharing.
as for pasta we chose the risotto and the staff was kind enough to plate it into sharing portions for us. the sauce was amazing but the risotto was a little hard. i like my risottos to be soft and melt your mouth. most of us had the duck confit as a main. sadly, it was a bit dry. we had to ask for more sauce which made it a little better. they accommodated to my colleagues request of adding chicken to their vegetarian pizza but they said the pizza was bland and they looked miserable eating it. another colleague ordered the crispy skin sea bass and he seemed to really enjoy it.
dessert is a little bit expensive, 45aed for 2 small scoops of icecream! thankfully because i'm pregnant, we asked for an extra scoop and they happily obliged. the gelato was agreatfinish, best thing i had at the restaurant!
they also gave us a complimentary biscuit tray after dessert. drinkers got a free lemon alcohol shot.
overall lovely dining experience but definitely needs to step up with the food.