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RESTAURANT REVIEW : ICHO 

Let there be Light! There are a number of reasons to eat at the Japanese restaurant Icho but before you even put a morsel of food in your mouth, taste the light. Being based on the 49^th floor with literally sky high windows, the natural light that floods this restaurant is a refreshing change from many of Dubai’s under or over artificially lit indoor eating venues. The clean light combined with the pale, fresh wooden furniture and sensibly spaced out tables for large and small groups ticked all of my ambience boxes for a Saturday lunch with the family.  While the lunch on Saturday is actually a Brunch, in reality your meal is a combination of items from the authentic and accessible Japanese buffet (the head chef is Japanese) and anything you’d like to order from the generous a la carte lunch menu.

The rationale being that hot dishes should be made fresh to order and brought to your table, how sensible. The pattern works well and both the food at the buffet (miso soup, an array of top quality sushi and salads) as well as the a la carte dishes were beautiful to look at, tasty and wholesome. I especially liked the green tea noodles served in a chic Japanese cup and the Udon noodles with Prawn tempura in a light soup. READ MORE

Monica Kapila – Resident of Dubai since 2006

 Site launched March 2011