Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Emirates bring DFF flavors to Dubai Airport lounges


(MENAFN- Arab News) In celebration of its strategic partnership of the ongoing Dubai Food Festival (DFF) Emirates has collaborated with friend of the festival and celebrity Chef Silvena Rowe to create a signature menu for its six airport lounges in Dubai. Emirates' premium customers can experience a customized menu of Silvena's distinctive modern Emirati cuisine.

Heavily influenced by traditional Arabic-Emirati cooking and by modern haute cuisine Silvena's innovative approach to cooking will resonate with Emirates' global customer.

In Dubai's three first class lounges customers can choose from an a la carte menu comprising some of Silvena's most popular dishes including an appetizer of seared prawns with warm sumac vinaigrette hammour shawarma tawook grilled succulent cubes of locally caught hammour marinated in shawarma spices as well as a 12-hour lamb slow cooked and pulled with golden emirati bezar spice blend as main course options and a dessert of passion fruit curd and mascarpone.

As a buffet selection in both Business Class and First Class lounges customers can enjoy roasted free-range chicken with sumac and za'atar and a pomegranate glaze.

On an average day Emirates lounges expect to serve upward of 1350 portions of Chef Silvena's dishes to their customers between the Business Class and First Class lounges. The new dishes adding new flavors to an already diverse menu include over 150 different meal offerings from different international cuisines. Silvena's dishes will be served through the remainder of the DFF till Feb. 28.

'This culinary collaboration is a great way to delight our customers while showcasing local talent and our support for the DFF' said Mohammed Mattar divisional SVP Emirates Airport Services.

'This year's DFF is a city-wide celebration of the menus of the 200 nationalities that reside in Dubai' said Laila Mohammed Suhail CEO Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE) organizer of the DFF.



Arab News

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