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Discover the delicious flavors of Dubai with our food tour travel company.

31/10/2026

Saturday tip: skip the brightest sign and follow the queue 🥙

Old Dubai's best bites hide in small, busy cafeterias, bakeries and sweet shops, the places locals queue at. On our private walk your guide picks the spots and orders for you, with the story behind every bite.

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📷 Photo (shawarma spit in Dubai, illustrative, not taken on the tour): Krista / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

30/10/2026

Friday plans? We'll pick you up hungry 🚐

Pick the "With hotel transfers" option and your guide meets you at your Dubai hotel. Then it's about 3 hours of Old Dubai on foot: tastings like shawarma, falafel with hummus, karak and warm kunafa, an abra across the Creek, and a drive back to your hotel at the end. Private, just your group of up to 6.

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📷 Photo (shawarma, illustrative, not taken on the tour): Kars Alfrink / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

29/10/2026

Culture Thursday: the dallah ☕ This is the Arabic coffee pot, with its "waist", spire-shaped lid and long crescent "beak" of a spout. Arabic coffee is brewed and poured from it as a sign of welcome, and it matters so much to Gulf identity that it appears in public artwork and on coins. Come and taste Old Dubai's hospitality with us.

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Photo: Peter Dowley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

28/10/2026

Spice Wednesday: frankincense, the "tears" of the Boswellia tree ✨ Harvesters tap the trees a few times a year and the resin is sorted by hand, traded across southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa for centuries. In Arabic it's al-lubān, and it has been prized as incense since ancient Egyptian times. You'll still find it in the lanes of Deira's Spice Souk.

Smell it, see it, ask about it on a walk through Old Dubai with a local guide.
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Photo: snotch / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

27/10/2026

Did you know? Harees takes its name from the Arabic verb harasa, "to mash" 🥣 Wheat is soaked overnight, simmered slowly with meat and butter, then beaten until smooth. Across the Gulf it is a much-loved dish in Ramadan and at Eid, a recipe written down in Arabic cookbooks more than a thousand years ago.

Hungry for the stories behind Old Dubai's food? Walk it with a local guide.
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Photo: Miansari66 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

26/10/2026

One bite, then the burst 💥 Pani puri is a crisp, hollow puri filled with potato and chickpeas, dipped in flavoured water (pani means "water") and eaten whole. Born as street food in the Indian subcontinent, it is called golgappa in Delhi and phuchka in Kolkata, a name said to copy the sound of eating it.
In Old Dubai, Indian street snacks are a typical tasting on our walk, and one guest wrote: "We loved the pani puri, chai and falafel wraps the most!" (Farah J., TripAdvisor, Mar 2024). Tastings change with what's fresh on the day.

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Photo: Apoorva Jinka / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

24/10/2026

Saturday tip: come hungry. Really hungry. 🍽️

Guests regularly tell us there was more food than they expected, so skip the big meal before your Old Dubai walk. Tell us any dietary needs when you book, and if there's a dish you've been dying to try, let us know before the tour and your guide will try to work it in.

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Photo (mezze, illustrative): Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

23/10/2026

Friday plans? Save room for kunafa 🍯

Our private Old Dubai food walk ends sweet. You meet your guide at the Arabian Tea House in Al Fahidi, taste your way through the old souks with tastings like shawarma, falafel with hummus, Indian street snacks and local tea, cross the Creek by abra to the Spice and Gold Souks of Deira, and finish with kunafa: fine pastry strands, soft cheese and syrup, warm from the tray.

⏱️ About 3 hours · private, just your group of up to 6 · abra ride included

📲 Book on WhatsApp +971 50 826 9272 or www.dubaifoodtour.com

📷 Photo (kunafa tray, illustrative, not taken on the tour): Tracy Hunter / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

22/10/2026

Culture Thursday: the majlis 🛋️ "Majlis" is Arabic for "sitting room", from jalas, "to sit". Cushions line the walls, guests are welcomed in and made comfortable, because hospitality is taken seriously. In 2015 UNESCO listed the majlis as intangible cultural heritage, in a joint file from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar. Come and taste Old Dubai's hospitality with us.

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Photo: Maggie Jones / Wikimedia Commons, public domain (majlis of a tent in southern Qatar)

21/10/2026

Spice Wednesday: turmeric 🟡 In medieval Europe it was called "Indian saffron." It's the root of a plant in the ginger family, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, boiled, dried and ground into the golden powder that colours curries and rice across South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking. That colour comes from curcumin, and it has long been part of traditional Ayurvedic practice.

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Photo: formulatehealth / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

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