Traditional Emirati breakfast table with luqaimat in date syrup, balaleet, chebab breads and a dallah coffee pot, warm morning light, no people

Traditional Emirati Food Prices in the UAE (2026): What Luqaimat, Harees and a Machboos Cost

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Traditional Emirati Food Prices in the UAE (2026): What Luqaimat, Harees and a Machboos Cost

Traditional Emirati food is sold in two registers that barely overlap: the heritage restaurant, where the dishes arrive as full plates, and the specialist Emirati cafeteria, where the same tradition is sold in small serves built for an evening snack or a shared box. The headline numbers, built only from menus and guides fetched for this page: a chicken machboos costs AED 57–70 and a lamb machboos AED 67–80 at a heritage restaurant, a harees costs AED 37–58, a restaurant plate of luqaimat costs AED 26–38 — and at the specialist cafeterias, luqaimat, balaleet and chebab are AED 9–11 a serve, with a single harees from AED 15. Above both registers sits a third: at the one Michelin-starred Emirati restaurant whose menu was opened for this page, the lamb machboos is AED 125 and the luqaimat AED 55.

Last updated: 9 November 2026 · Sources: Al Fanar and Erth published menus, Arabian Tea House published menu, Talabat and Deliveroo menus, Where To Eat Dubai, The Dubai Life, HolidayTribe — full list at the end of this page

How much does a traditional meal cost?

One dish in the classic list has no dish price at all. Madrooba — the pounded rice dish — appears on no UAE menu fetched today as a single serve; it is sold inside sharing boxes and catering packages only, and this page says so rather than pricing it from a box. Several famous names likewise publish no checkable dish prices; where that is the case, the page names the gap instead of filling it with a guide’s estimate.

What does a machboos cost on a menu you can check?

Machboos — rice cooked in the broth of the meat, with dried lime and mixed spices — is the best-priced dish in this pack because every heritage kitchen publishes it. Every row names its restaurant, its price and its channel; a price labelled “platform menu” is a delivery-platform list price, and promotions shown beside list prices are never quoted here.

Restaurant and dish Price, AED Source
Al Fanar — Machboos Deyay (chicken) 57 Talabat menu (platform price)
Al Fanar — Chicken Machboos 65 Restaurant’s own menu; also Deliveroo menu
Arabian Tea House — Machboos Deyay (chicken) 62 Restaurant’s own menu
Logma — Machbous Chicken 70 Talabat menu (platform price)
Al Fanar — Machboos Laham (meat) 68 Talabat menu (platform price)
Al Fanar — Mutton Machboos 74 Talabat menu (platform price, second listing)
Arabian Tea House — Laham Machboos 76 Restaurant’s own menu
Al Fanar — Fish Machboos 76 Restaurant’s own menu; also Deliveroo menu
Al Fanar — Mutton Machboos 79 Restaurant’s own menu; also Deliveroo menu
Logma — Machbous Lamb 80 Talabat menu (platform price)
Logma — Machbous Shrimps 82 Talabat menu (platform price)
Arabian Tea House — Machboos Hamour 82 Restaurant’s own menu
Erth — Braised Lamb Machboos 125 Restaurant’s own menu

Read the Al Fanar rows as a ladder, not an error. The same chain prices its chicken machboos at AED 57 on one platform listing and AED 65 on a second listing and on its own published menu, and its mutton machboos at AED 68, AED 74 and AED 79 across the same three layers. The guides sit over the ladder rather than on it: Where To Eat Dubai prices machboos at AED 65–85 at restaurants, matching the own-menu layer and missing the cheaper platform layer. Below the heritage ladder, the specialist kitchens price the dish lower where they sell it at all: a chicken majboos dish is AED 48 at Al Shandagha on Talabat, and a meat machboos AED 65 at Karakand. It sits close to, and usually a little above, the biryani in the same kitchens — the two are priced side by side in our biryani prices guide.

Chicken machboos rice platter with a bowl of harees and small dishes of salad and dates on a low table

What do harees, thareed and saloona cost?

Harees — wheat and meat cooked together for hours and beaten smooth — is priced at every level of the market. The cheapest single serve fetched is AED 15 (Harees Mallah, at Mallah Restaurant on Talabat). The specialist harees houses price a meat harees at AED 30–35: Harees Al Waldah charges AED 35 at two branches and AED 30 at a third, and Harees Alfrej AED 34.50 for meat or chicken. The heritage layer prices it at AED 37 as an appetiser at Arabian Tea House (own menu), AED 46 on its Talabat menu (its Deliveroo listing showed AED 44 when first retrieved on 9 November and no standalone harees at all on the publish check later the same day), and AED 47.25 at Meylas — the same figure on both platforms. One disagreement is recorded rather than resolved: a guide prices Al Fanar’s harees at AED 58, above every menu figure fetched, and Al Fanar’s own published menu — opened in full for this page — lists no standalone harees at all. The AED 58 stands as a guide figure only.

Thareed — bread soaked in stew, also spelled thereed — is a heritage-restaurant dish in the sources fetched: no cafeteria menu prices it as a single serve. Al Fanar prices chicken thareed at AED 57 on one platform listing, AED 62 on Deliveroo and AED 65 on its own menu, and mutton thareed at AED 67 on the platform and AED 79 on its own menu. Saloona, the tomato-based stew of meat and seasonal vegetables, follows the same ladder: AED 57 for chicken and AED 67 for meat at Al Fanar on Talabat; AED 60 for chicken, AED 72 for lamb and AED 58 for the vegetable version at Arabian Tea House (own menu); and AED 110 for the chicken salona at Erth. Madrooba has no single-serve price in any source fetched: it appears inside a sharing box at Harees Al Waldah (with harees, marguga and asida, AED 80–130 by branch) and in catering packages at AED 150–215 per person.

What do the breakfast breads and balaleet cost?

The breakfast table is where the two registers meet, because the same four items — balaleet, chebab, khameer and rigag — are sold by both. At the specialist cafeterias the prices are small and exact. Balaleet, sweet vermicelli under an omelette, is AED 9 at Mallah, AED 12 for a small and AED 16 for a medium at RQAQ LAWAL, and AED 17.83 at Harees Alfrej. Chebab, the saffron pancake served with cheese and date syrup or honey, is AED 3 at a popular cafeteria in Ajman (Al Fanar Al Shaabi — a cafeteria that shares a name with, and is not, the heritage chain), AED 9 at Mallah, and AED 11–13 at RQAQ LAWAL and Estkanah Qand. Rigag, the thin crisp bread cooked on a griddle, starts at AED 3 plain (Karak Alhara; T House charges AED 8) and runs to AED 13 filled at Luqaimat and Chebab. Khameer, the thick leavened bread, starts at AED 3.50 plain at Mhla Aldar, with filled sandwiches at AED 6.50–10.

At the heritage restaurants the same items arrive plated, with cheese, honey and syrups, and the prices show it. Al Fanar’s own menu prices chebab at AED 34, balalit at AED 42 and reqaq at AED 24 plain and AED 32–34 filled. Arabian Tea House’s own menu prices chebab and khameer at AED 34 each, raqaq at AED 35 and balaleet at AED 30, or AED 36 with omelette — while the same chain’s platform menus price the same chebab at AED 41 and the same balaleet at AED 33 and AED 44, a platform premium of AED 7–8 a dish, recorded here rather than smoothed away. Logma prices all four at AED 30 each on its platform menu. Assembled as trays, breakfast costs AED 27.50 for a cafeteria breakfast box (Luqaimat and Chebab, list price), AED 87 for the Special Emirati Breakfast Tray on Arabian Tea House’s own menu — AED 105–107 for the same tray on its platform menus — and AED 99 for a tray for two or AED 249 for a set for four at Al Fanar. The weekend end of the same market is priced in our friday brunch prices guide.

Khameer and rigag breads cooking on a flat griddle with a bowl of cheese and honey beside them

What does luqaimat cost, from a small serve to a restaurant plate?

Luqaimat — fried dough balls in date syrup — has the widest spread of any dish on this page, and the spread is almost entirely format. The small cafeteria serve is AED 9 (Mallah, plain) and AED 11 (Mallah, cheese), identical at every Mallah branch fetched, in three emirates. The box format — 11 pieces with a topping — is AED 25–27.50 for the plain dough and AED 27–31 for the cheese dough at Luqaimat and Chebab branches on Talabat. Single outlets fill the middle: AED 16.68–28.18 at Harees Alfrej, AED 20 small and AED 30–38 large at Estkanah Qand, AED 24.50 at Karakand, AED 30 at Al Shandagha. The restaurant plate is AED 28 at Al Fanar (own menu; flavoured versions AED 38), AED 30 at Arabian Tea House (own menu) and AED 38 at Logma (platform menu). The fine-dining plate is AED 55 at Erth. One figure is explicitly not a price: several platform listings for the luqaimat chain carry a line reading AED 0.05 beside the priced boxes — a placeholder in the menu data, recorded in this page’s data pack and quoted nowhere as a price. Luqaimat’s usual partner at the counter is a cup of karak, priced cup by cup in our karak chai and cafeteria prices guide.

What does gahwa cost, by the pot and by the dallah?

Gahwa — Arabic coffee with cardamom, served from a dallah pot with dates — is not sold by the cup on any Emirati menu fetched for this page, and that is itself the finding. At the heritage restaurants it is sold by the pot: AED 21 on Al Fanar’s own menu, AED 30 on Arabian Tea House’s own menu, and AED 20 on a secondary menu listing for Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant, the weakest source in this pack and labelled as such wherever used. On the platform menus it is sold by the dallah, for delivery to a gathering: AED 54 at Lgymat & Rgag, AED 60 at Ruqaq Al Khaleej in Fujairah, AED 75 at Harees Al Yadoo, and AED 110 for a one-litre cardamom dallah at Harees Al Waldah — the only listing fetched that states its volume. Per-cup maths is not presented: a dallah serves a majlis, not a person, and dividing it would invent a price nobody charges.

Where can you eat this food in each emirate?

Dubai holds the deepest evidence in this pack, at every level. The heritage layer is Al Fanar (own menu opened for this page), Arabian Tea House (own menu) and Logma (platform menu). The cafeteria layer runs underneath it: Mallah’s Emirati Concept listings sell the small serves at AED 9–11, and Al Shandagha prices a chicken majboos dish at AED 48. Two well-known names publish no checkable dish menu in what was fetched: Siraj appears only in guide figures (a tasting menu around AED 395 a head; mains at AED 150–200), and Aseelah only as a cost-for-two figure of about AED 250. Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant’s only itemised figures here are a reviewer’s bill (lamb machboos AED 69) and a secondary menu listing (fish machboos AED 95, Arabic coffee AED 20) — no official priced menu was retrieved, and both are labelled as what they are. The wider cheap-eats map for the city is in our street food guide.

Abu Dhabi is the second-deepest emirate, and the only one with a fine-dining Emirati menu that could be opened and priced dish by dish: Erth prices its braised lamb machboos at AED 125, its chicken salona at AED 110, its harees broth at AED 55 and its luqaimat at AED 55, all stated as inclusive of taxes and charges. Around it, the city’s Al Fanar branches price the heritage mains at the same levels as the capital’s neighbour (harees AED 46, machboos AED 65–79 across its Deliveroo and Talabat listings, including Al Ain, where Harees Alfrej also sells balaleet at AED 17.83 and plain luqaimat at AED 16.68). The specialist layer is strong: Meylas prices harees at AED 47.25 and balaleet at AED 36.75 identically on two platforms, Harees Al Waldah prices harees at AED 30–35 by branch, and the luqaimat chain’s branches here sell the 11-piece boxes at AED 25–27.50. One gap is named: Al Mrzab, the Bib Gourmand Emirati restaurant, has no platform or own menu in what was fetched — its machboos appears only as guide figures of AED 50 and about AED 61.

Sharjah holds the strongest cafeteria layer in this pack, as it did for karak. Mallah Restaurant’s listings here price the full small-serve range — luqaimat, balaleet and chebab at AED 9, cheese luqaimat at AED 11, and the cheapest single harees fetched anywhere, AED 15 — alongside sharing boxes at AED 71–83. The heritage chain’s local listing prices chicken machboos at AED 65 and mutton at AED 74, and Arabian Tea House’s listings here price breakfast at platform levels (chebab AED 41, tray AED 107). The small cafeterias fill the bottom of the ladder: T House sells chebab, khamir and regag at AED 8–9, Mhla Aldar sells plain khameer at AED 3.50, and RQAQ LAWAL sells balaleet at AED 12–16. One Sharjah listing is shown only as an outlier: a lounge menu prices harees at AED 120 and machboos at AED 210 in sharing formats, excluded from every band on this page.

Ajman has real but thin evidence, and no heritage-restaurant menu was retrieved for it. A popular cafeteria (Al Fanar Al Shaabi, not the heritage chain) prices chebab at AED 3 and rigag at AED 5 a piece on Talabat, with its luqaimat listed without a price; Estkanah Qand prices chebab at AED 12–13 for two pieces and luqaimat at AED 20 small and AED 30–38 large. No machboos or harees price was retrieved for Ajman, and none is estimated.

Ras Al Khaimah is thinner again: breads and breakfast dishes only. RQAQ LAWAL’s northern listing prices balaleet, chebab and luqaimat in the same formats as its southern one; Tea Lounge For Tea prices cheese regag at AED 5, chebab at AED 14 and khameer at AED 18; Ghaytah Cafe prices cheese ragag at AED 7 and a cheese luqaimat serve at AED 28. No machboos, harees, thareed or saloona price was retrieved for the emirate.

Fujairah is a gap at dish level: no menu fetched prices a single Emirati dish there. Its only priced evidence in the traditional register is a restaurant named for the rigag bread itself, Ruqaq Al Khaleej, which prices drinks by the dallah — Arabic coffee AED 60, karak tea AED 55. Umm Al Quwain is a total gap: no Emirati menu, cafeteria listing or guide dish price was retrieved for it, and no figure is quoted. The coverage claim is therefore exact: five emirates have priced dish evidence, one has priced dallah evidence only, and one has none.

How does a heritage restaurant compare with a cafeteria and a tasting menu?

Line the registers up dish by dish. A luqaimat is AED 9 as a cafeteria serve, AED 25–31 as an 11-piece box, AED 28–38 as a restaurant plate and AED 55 as a fine-dining dessert. A harees is AED 15–35 at the specialists, AED 37–47.25 at the heritage restaurants and AED 55 as a broth at the starred one. A machboos is AED 48–65 in the specialist and platform layers, AED 65–82 on heritage own menus, and AED 125 at Erth. A breakfast for one is AED 9–18 built from cafeteria serves, AED 27.50 as a cafeteria box, AED 87–99 as a heritage tray, and AED 249 as a set for four. How these meals sit inside a monthly food budget is worked through in our budget meals guide, the cafeteria end of the ladder is priced in our shawarma prices guide, and what a month of eating out at these levels does to a salary is the subject of our cost of living budgets.

FAQs

What is the cheapest traditional dish you can check?

On checkable evidence fetched 9 November 2026, AED 3 — a chebab at Al Fanar Al Shaabi in Ajman and a plain rigag at Karak Alhara in Al Ain, both Talabat list prices. The cheapest full dish serve is AED 9, Mallah Restaurant’s price for luqaimat, balaleet and chebab at every branch fetched. The only lower figure found, a AED 0.05 platform line, is a placeholder, not a price.

What does a machboos cost?

Chicken machboos: AED 57–70 across the heritage menus fetched (Al Fanar AED 57–65 by layer, Arabian Tea House AED 62, Logma AED 70), and AED 48 as a specialist cafeteria dish at Al Shandagha. Lamb or mutton: AED 67–80 at the heritage restaurants and AED 125 at Erth. Fish and shrimp sit at AED 73–82.

Why is the same dish cheaper on one menu than another?

Three reasons, all in the fetched evidence. Format: a 9-dirham cafeteria serve, an 11-piece box and a plated restaurant portion are different amounts of food. Channel: Arabian Tea House’s platform menus price its own dishes AED 7–20 above its own published menu. Register: a starred restaurant charges for the room and service as well as the dish — Erth’s lamb machboos is AED 125 against AED 79 for the same dish on Al Fanar’s own menu, with taxes and service stated as included.

How much is a traditional breakfast?

From the named items fetched: AED 9–18 built dish by dish at a specialist cafeteria; AED 27.50 for a cafeteria breakfast box (list price); AED 87 for the Special Emirati Breakfast Tray on Arabian Tea House’s own menu, or AED 105–107 on its platform menus; AED 99 for a tray for two and AED 249 for a set for four at Al Fanar.

Which dishes could not be priced?

Madrooba as a single serve — it is sold only inside sharing boxes and catering packages in every source fetched. Gahwa by the cup — it is sold by the pot and the dallah only. Any dish at all in Umm Al Quwain; any main course in Fujairah, Ajman or Ras Al Khaimah beyond the breads and breakfast dishes listed; and dish-level prices at Siraj, Aseelah and Al Mrzab, where only guide figures exist. Where a dish publishes nothing checkable, the honest price is “unpublished”.

Data sources used on this page:

  • Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe published menu (restaurant’s own menu, opened in full) — https://www.alfanarrestaurant.com/menu — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/22901/al-fanar-restaurant-cafe–al-majaz-1?aid=4000 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/726769/al-fanar-restaurant-cafedh-kitchen-industrial-area-13?aid=1587 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/37868/al-fanar-restaurant-cafe-dubai-festival-city?aid=2794 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe menu, Al Jimi (delivery-platform listing, Deliveroo) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/al-ain/al-ameriya/al-fanar-restaurant-and-cafe-al-jimi?geohash=thr9th161s22 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Arabian Tea House, Al Fahidi branch published menu (restaurant’s own menu, via full transcription) — https://www.dubaitripguide.com/arabian-tea-house-al-fahidi/ — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Arabian Tea House menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/38358/arabian-tea-house?aid=1304 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Logma menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/45685/logma-dubai-mall?aid=5669 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Erth Restaurant published food menu (restaurant’s own menu, opened in full, PDF) — https://erthtable.com/uploads/26101fd8dacac3b9379de9dd4cbf9072.pdf — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Meylas Emirati Restaurant menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat and Deliveroo) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/33511/meylas-emirati-restaurant-al-muneera-al-raha?aid=6489 and https://deliveroo.ae/menu/Abu Dhabi/al-bandar/meylas-emirati-restaurant?day=today&geohash=thqg47pfj6ex&time=ASAP — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Harees Al Waldah menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/600554/harees-al-waldah-mohammed-bin-zayed-city?aid=1485 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/23453/harees-al-waldah-al-wahdah-tmp?aid=6907 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Harees Al Yadoo menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/763029/harees-al-yadoo-al-nahyan?aid=1451 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Harees Alfrej Restaurant menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/701936/harees-alfrej-restaurant-al-shamkha?aid=6486 and https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/657345/harees-alfrej-restaurant-al-hili-al-hili?aid=1883 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Mallah Restaurant and Mallah – Emirati Concept menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/38373/mallah-restaurant-university-of-sharjah?aid=1587 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/738457/mallah–emirati-concept-al-rashidiya-dh-kitchen?aid=1218 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Luqaimat and Chebab menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/31165/lagaimat-and-chebab-cafeteria-madinat-khalifa–a?aid=6491 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/762983/luqaimat-and-chebab-cafeteria-al-warqa-1?aid=1292 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/34932/luqaimat-and-chebab-restaurant-al-mushrif?aid=1441 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • RQAQ LAWAL menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/741124/rqaq-lawal-al-dhait-south?aid=3929 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • T House menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/766454/t-house-muwaileh-commercial?aid=1522 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Mhla Aldar menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/603618/mhla-aldar-muwaileh-commercial?aid=6812 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Dar Al Karak & Al Muhala menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/37641/dar-al-karak-al-muhala-al-aman?aid=1440 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Karak Alhara menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/734109/karak-alhara-al-foaa?aid=1881 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Tea Lounge For Tea menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/717424/tea-lounge-for-tea-al-dhait-south?aid=2435 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Ghaytah Cafe menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/602107/ghaytah-cafesidroh?aid=2436 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Fanar Al Shaabi menu, Ajman listings (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text — a popular cafeteria, not the heritage chain) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/733393/al-fanar-al-shaabi-industry-area1-al-jurf?aid=6782 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Estkanah Qand Cafeteria menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/684781/estkanah-qand-cafeteria–al-jurf-2?aid=1974 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Ruqaq Al Khaleej Public Restaurant menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/43305/ruqaq-al-khaleej-public-restaurantfujairah-intl-airport?aid=3904 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Lgymat & Rgag menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/683086/lgymat-rgag-al-khalidiyah?aid=1471 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Shandagha Restaurant menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/718692/al-shandagha-restaurant-al-hudaiba?aid=1173 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Karakand menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/724671/karakand-yas-island?aid=1495 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • The Secret Lounge menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; sharing formats, labelled outliers) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/755981/the-secret-lounge-university-of-sharjah?aid=1552 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant reviewer bill (review text, Tripadvisor; not a menu) — https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g294013-d26794945-r942437488-Al_Khayma_Heritage_Restaurant-Abu_Dhabi_Emirate_of_Abu_Dhabi.html — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant & Cafe menu listing (secondary menu listing, not the restaurant’s own site) — https://alkhaymaheritagerestauran69257.thezenweb.com/al-khayma-heritage-restaurant-cafe-dubai-restaurant-address-menu-reviews-67003424 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Table 5 Emirati catering packages (operator’s own site; package figures, not dish prices) — https://www.table5.ae/cuisines/emirati — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Where To Eat Dubai — Emirati Food Dubai: The Complete Guide to UAE Cuisine 2026 (guide) — https://wheretoeatdubai.com/blog/emirati-food-dubai — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • The Dubai Life — Dubai Food Guide 2026: 30 Dishes to Try (guide) — https://www.thedubailife.com/dubai-food-guide-must-try-dishes — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • HolidayTribe — Abu Dhabi Food Guide (guide) — https://holidaytribe.ai/blog/abu-dhabi-food-guide — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • TableJourney — Abu Dhabi food guide (guide; Al Mrzab and Meylas figures) — https://tablejourney.com/united-arab-emirates/abu-dhabi/ — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • NovaCircle — Al Mrzab Traditional Restaurant venue page (venue-profile figures) — https://www.novacircle.com/spots/asia/united-arab-emirates/abu-dhabi-region/abu-dhabi-municipality/abu-dhabi/al-mrzab-traditional-restaurant-2a2da4/menu — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Cities Insider — Traditional Emirati Cuisine in Sharjah (guide) — https://citiesinsider.com/country/united-arab-emirates/sharjah/traditional-emirati-cuisine/en — retrieved 9 November 2026

Methodology: prices are quoted as ranges unless a named menu publishes an exact price, in which case it is quoted exactly with its source. Delivery-platform prices are list prices; platform promotions and struck-through discounts are not quoted as prices. A restaurant’s own published menu, a platform menu, a guide figure, a reviewer figure and a secondary listing are labelled as what they are, and are never merged into a single figure for a dish. Where sources disagreed, both figures are shown in the text. Dishes and places with no retrievable figure — madrooba as a single serve, gahwa by the cup, dish prices at Siraj, Aseelah and Al Mrzab, mains in the northern emirates, and Umm Al Quwain entirely — are stated as gaps, not estimated.

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