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Food Review: An Indian adventure at Farzi Cafe, Dubai


Farzi Cafe Lamb Boti Taco

Photo: Braised lamb boti tacos with fried garlic and pepper cream served on wheels at Farzi Cafe, City Walk, Dubai.

Tables at this restaurant, where the dishes are a molecular gastronomic version of Indian food, are awfully hard to get. But is it worth the hype?

As any chef worth their salt will tell you, good food has more to do with chemistry than with the quality of produce used, and that’s certainly true at Dubai’s Farzi Cafe. The Indian bistro at the emirate’s new City Walk strip mall experiments with both technique and presentation, and the results of this quasi-molecular experimentation are both memorable and Instagram-worthy.

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Karim Mansour