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ERICS DUBAI

Welcome to Erics Dubai. A mainly Goan, seafood restaurant serving tasty, reasonably priced food in a new branch in Al Safa Dubai.

rava fish fry

Erics Dubai has opened a NEW BRANCH in Al Safa

Is it just Goan food at Erics Dubai

No, not at all, you can sample some great Indo Chinese style food and some regular North Indian curries, all made to a high standard. But the restaurant does specialize in Goan coastal cuisine.

Where is Erics Dubai located

The original branch of Erics opened in 2006 in Karama and was just a 4 table restaurant, that’s grown up now. But there is a new branch with a lighter, more airy feel and easy parking too! The google map below shows you where in Al Safa the new Erics is located.

What to eat at Erics Dubai

erics Dubai al safa DoinDubai Menu Card

I have been twice now to the new branch of Erics and can recommend the following:

Start with some Potato Chops, a real Goan dish. Imagine small morsels of a spicy, minced lamb shepherds pie on a plate if you can. Only these are better than any shepherds pie I’ve had.

Or you could opt for some tuna cutlets instead of or as well as these.

Again a very home style tuna fish cake with the right amount of spice.

We also tried some peppery prawns that came from the Indo Chinese elements of the menu.
These would make a good main course on their own with some steamed rice.
Expect a rich, Chinese style sauce with spring onions and peppers coating the generous sized prawns.

peppery prawns
spicy lamb potato chops

Goan Style Main Courses

For main courses we opted for the classic Recheado style grilled prawns and a prawn curry dish again Goan style. Both were good and you need to eat the curry with a rice dish for sure.

The other main classic Goan dish we tried was the King fish Rava Fry. Expect fleshy, king fish steaks sliced thin and expertly coated with a spicy rava (semolina) type dry crumb and then fried. See main picture above.

I didn’t try it as I don’t eat beef but our table was raving about the beef vindaloo, which also comes with chicken if you prefer.

From the Mughlai Menu at Erics Dubai

Do order the Bhindi (okra) crisy fry, a perfect accompaniment to the prawn curry and rice. 

Sweets at Erics Dubai

We’ve grown up knowing that Crème Caramel is a classic Goan pudding and Eric’s serves a good one. But if you’re lucky you may get to taste some Bebinca!

A special dessert that’s occasionally flown in from Goa. Expect a number of layers of coconut and flour batter, cooked one layer at a time and sandwiched together to be eaten warm with some vanilla ice cream.

erics Dubai al safa DoinDubai Bibinka

NEW coffee shop concept at Erics Al Safa

This branch of Erics also has a new coffee bar and pastry section where you can just have a sweet or savoury snack and catch up with friends without having a big meal. 

erics Dubai al safa DoinDubai pastry shop

But you’ll enjoy your time and food at Erics whether it’s a snack or a meal. This review was written in collaboration with Erics but the opinions are all my own. 

THANK YOU FOR READING.

Erics Dubai Facebook Page
telephone al safa branch
04 3881222

Erics Al Safa is OPEN during Ramadan 2019 12pm till 11pm.

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WALNUT GROVE An upmarket South African cafè in City Walk Dubai

Walnut Grove

Walnut Grove is a high-end cafè/restaurant from Johannesburg, South Africa that serves fresh, Mediterranean meals, juices, coffees and dessert style cakes.

Coffee Walnut Grove DoinDubai

Location of Walnut Grove

Walnut Grove is located on the ground floor of the newer section of City Walk in Dubai. City Walk itself is a mixed development of shops, restaurants, cafes and flats by established developer Meraas. There is easy parking in the basement. Walnut Grove is in one of the ground floor malls and you’ll be sitting near shops like American Vintage and Sandro. So it’s a bit like an indoor section of Marylebone High Street in London!

The food at Walnut Grove

We visited for lunch and ordered a Mamma Mia pizza and burrata salad. Both dishes were beautifully presented, extremely tasty and made to a high standard. Portion sizes are on the generous side but prices reflect that. So our 2 dishes could have fed at least three hungry people if not four with ease!

Walnut Grove DoinDubai City Walk Pizza

We asked for extra chilli oil to add to our pizza, this could have had a little more heat to it but was good nonetheless. I would have preferred a little less pomegranate molasses on my pizza but the combination still worked very well. We really liked the salty, flaky flat breads that came with our buratta salad.

Walnut Grove Buratta salad DoinDubai

We somehow found room for pudding and opted to share a portion of what looked liked a very fancy lemon meringue pie. Again this could have fed 4 people easily if you were having a dessert after a meal.

The lemon cream part of the pie was a little too sweet for me. The meringue was more of a cream than a meringue top.

Desserts in general are a little extra sweet in this part of the world I feel. So this is not a classic lemon meringue pie, it’s a much richer version.

Walnut Grove Lemon Meringue Pie DoinDubai

Prices at Walnut Grove

Mamma Mia Pizza     AED 95

Burrata Salad AED    AED 96

Lemon Meringue Pie AED 45

There are plans to open another branch in Dubai Mall later in 2018 or early 2019.

This would be a great place for breakfast if you had a walk at Al Kazzan park opposite this bit of City Walk, or if you were shopping in the mall. Service was friendly and competent. I would go to Walnut Grove again probably for breakfast.

Breakfast is served from 8am to 12pm and I recommend the Smashed Avocado on Sourdough toast for AED 69. I am sure this would feed two people! Coffee is roasted in Melbourne, Australia.

Lunch and dinner come from a different menu and that starts from 12pm lunch time till 11pm at night.

Website for Walnut Grove

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