{"id":16838,"date":"2022-03-02T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=16838"},"modified":"2022-07-23T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T09:13:23","slug":"20-restaurants-to-open-at-dubai-festival-city-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/03\/02\/20-restaurants-to-open-at-dubai-festival-city-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"20 restaurants to open at Dubai Festival City Mall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Al Futtaim Malls is set to welcome 20 new dining concepts \u2018under one roof\u2019 at Dubai Festival City mall.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scheduled to open by the end of the year, it will be the UAE\u2019s largest dining venue, covering 100,000 square feet.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Solutions Leisure Group, the F&amp;B operator behind the project, said the space will have \u201csensory-driven international dining concepts with an impressive line-up of unique artisans, renowned food names, talented performers and innovative attractions, transporting guests into a collective of the most famed streets of the world on a culinary journey they\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paul Evans, founder and CEO of Solutions Leisure, said visitors will embark on an international adventure \u2013 without having to leave the UAE.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhen Covid literally stopped us in our tracks and we couldn\u2019t travel, we saw a gaping hole emerge for an innovative, immersive and centralised destination that took you away from the day-to-day, without leaving the UAE, a hole we are excited to have filled with our incredible partners at Al Futtaim Malls.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The announcement follows the mall\u2019s introduction of more F&amp;B options last year \u201cin line with our strategy of focusing on the best customer experience across leisure, lifestyle and entertainment,\u201d said Timothy Earnest, group director of Al Futtaim Malls.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alexis Marcoux-Varvatsoulis, head of Foodservice Consulting Mena at real estate consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, who helped to broker the deal, said the space will set itself aside from traditional food halls.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cFollowing our review of the development and specific opportunity, it was clear that delivering yet another food hall was not the goal. This space had to be second to none, entertaining youngsters, families, teenagers and adults at any time of the day, he said.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Futtaim shopping centre to welcome country&#8217;s largest F&#038;B venue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":17786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[3996,1507,3993,4003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17166,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions\/17166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}