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Coffee and Cafe Prices in the UAE (2026): What a Flat White, a Cappuccino and a Cafe Breakfast Cost

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Coffee and Cafe Prices in the UAE (2026): What a Flat White, a Cappuccino and a Cafe Breakfast Cost

A cafe coffee in the UAE is not one price. It is a ladder with a cafeteria cup at the bottom and a premium cafe cup at the top, and the same drink name appears on almost every rung. The headline numbers, built only from menus fetched for this page: a flat white costs AED 19–29 on chain and specialty cafe menus, a cappuccino costs AED 18–29, a coffee with a croissant costs AED 32–39 at the chains — and at a cafeteria, a cappuccino costs AED 6–12 and a Nescafe AED 3–8. The spread inside those figures is the story: one chain prices a Spanish latte at AED 21 on one platform and AED 24 on another, and the most expensive Spanish latte fetched today costs AED 40, almost double the standard chain price for the same drink.

Last updated: 9 November 2026 · Sources: Talabat and Deliveroo menus, one cafe’s own menu site, The National, Numbeo — full list at the end of this page

How much does a coffee cost in the UAE?

Three layers of evidence, kept apart because they price three different things. The chains price a standardised cup: on the platform menus fetched for this page, a cappuccino or latte runs from AED 17–18 at Tim Hortons and AED 20 at Starbucks through AED 21 at Caribou Coffee to AED 22.50 at Costa Coffee, and a flat white runs from AED 19 at Starbucks to AED 22.50 at Costa. The specialty and premium cafes price the same drinks higher: a flat white is AED 22 at Nightjar, AED 26 at Boon Coffee Roasters and at Two at Symphony, and AED 29 at EL&N London, where a cappuccino and a latte are also AED 29. And the cafeterias price coffee as a counter staple, not a cafe product: a cappuccino is AED 6 at Shay Al Souk Cafeteria and AED 9.50 at Jenan Cafeteria, and a Nescafe is AED 3–8.

Two value layers sit underneath the big chains. ADNOC Oasis Café, the petrol-station cafe chain, prices a latte and a cappuccino at AED 16 and an iced Spanish latte at AED 20 — the cheapest chain milk coffee fetched today. Dunkin’s brewed Original Coffee is AED 13, the cheapest named chain cup in this pack. Neither figure is a promotion: platform promotions are never quoted on this page, and the second prices carried beside several list prices today (Caribou Coffee’s AED 10.50 beside its AED 21 latte, Dunkin’s AED 9.50 beside its AED 19 latte) have been left out of every figure here.

The crowd-sourced cross-check lands where the menus say it should. Numbeo’s regular cappuccino — a crowd-sourced figure, not a menu price — is Dh21.90 in its largest city sample and Dh20.02 UAE-wide, inside the chain band of AED 20–22.50. Where it parts company with the menus is in the cheaper cities, dealt with in the area section below rather than averaged away.

What does each standard drink cost on a menu you can check?

Every row names its cafe, its price and its channel. A price labelled “Talabat menu” or “Deliveroo menu” is a delivery-platform list price from the platform menu text; the menus marked “opened page” and “own site” were read in full. Sizes are shown where the source states them.

Drink Cafe and channel Price, AED Source
Espresso Tim Hortons — Talabat menu 12 Talabat menu (platform price)
Espresso Nightjar — Deliveroo menu 18 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Espresso EL&N London — Deliveroo menu 22 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Americano Tim Hortons — Talabat menu 14 Talabat menu (platform price)
Americano Starbucks — Talabat menu 18 Talabat menu (platform price)
Americano Costa Coffee — Talabat menu 20 Talabat menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Tim Hortons — Deliveroo menu 18 Deliveroo menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Starbucks — Talabat menu 20 Talabat menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Caribou Coffee — Talabat menu 21 Talabat menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Costa Coffee — Talabat menu 22.50 Talabat menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Nightjar — Deliveroo menu 22 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Cappuccino Two at Symphony — own menu site 28 Cafe’s own menu site
Cappuccino EL&N London — Deliveroo menu 29 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Latte ADNOC Oasis Café — Talabat menu 16 Talabat menu (platform price)
Latte Dunkin’ — Talabat menu 19 Talabat menu (platform price)
Latte Starbucks — Talabat menu 20 Talabat menu (platform price)
Latte, 12oz Boon Coffee Roasters — Deliveroo menu 28 Deliveroo menu (platform price)
Flat white, small Tim Hortons — Talabat menu 15 Talabat menu (platform price)
Flat white Starbucks — Talabat menu 19 Talabat menu (platform price)
Flat white Nightjar — Deliveroo menu 22 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Flat white Costa Coffee — Talabat menu 22.50 Talabat menu (platform price)
Flat white, 8oz Boon Coffee Roasters — Deliveroo menu 26 Deliveroo menu (platform price)
Flat white EL&N London — Deliveroo menu 29 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Spanish latte Tim Hortons — Talabat menu 21 Talabat menu (platform price)
Spanish latte Dunkin’ — Talabat menu 23 Talabat menu (platform price)
Spanish latte Caribou Coffee — Talabat menu 25 Talabat menu (platform price)
Spanish latte Starbucks — Talabat menu 26 Talabat menu (platform price)
Spanish latte Nightjar — Deliveroo menu 28 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Spanish latte EL&N London — Deliveroo menu 40 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Cold brew Starbucks — Talabat menu 23 Talabat menu (platform price)
Nitro cold brew Nightjar — Deliveroo menu 24 Deliveroo menu (opened page)
Iced latte Dunkin’ — Talabat menu 19 Talabat menu (platform price)
Iced latte, 16oz Boon Coffee Roasters — Deliveroo menu 30 Deliveroo menu (platform price)
Cappuccino Shay Al Souk Cafeteria — Talabat menu 6 Talabat menu (platform price)
Nescafe Sakhrah Al Rosha Cafeteria — Talabat menu 3 Talabat menu (platform price)

Read the table as three ladders, not one. The chain ladder is tight: the four global chains sit within AED 17–22.50 for a cappuccino or latte. The specialty ladder starts where the chains end — Nightjar matches Costa on a cappuccino (AED 22 against AED 22.50) and prices its Spanish latte above Starbucks, while Boon and EL&N price a standard milk coffee at AED 26–29. The cafeteria ladder at the bottom is a different product sold a different way, priced separately throughout this page on purpose.

Two disagreements sit inside the table’s own chains. Tim Hortons prices its latte, cappuccino and Spanish latte AED 1–3 lower on Talabat than on Deliveroo (Spanish latte AED 21 against AED 24 is the widest), and one Starbucks listing prices its Spanish latte at AED 23 and cold brew at AED 20 against AED 26 and AED 23 on the chain’s other listings. Neither menu explains the gap; the table uses the figures that repeat across the most listings.

Flat white in a ceramic cup on a wooden cafe table with scattered roasted coffee beans beside it

Why does the same flat white cost AED 19 in one cafe and AED 29 in another?

Four reasons, all visible in the fetched menus. Tier: the AED 19 cup is a global chain’s standard serve and the AED 29 cup is a premium cafe’s double-shot serve in an 8oz cup — EL&N’s menu says both things in its own text. Size: where menus state sizes, the pattern is consistent — Tim Hortons’ small flat white is AED 15, Boon’s 8oz flat white is AED 26 and its 12oz latte AED 28, and its 16oz iced latte AED 30; the cup grows with the price. Drink build: the Spanish latte shows it best — condensed milk and a named sauce push a latte from AED 21 at Tim Hortons to AED 25 at Caribou and Two at Symphony, AED 26 at Starbucks, AED 28 at Nightjar and AED 40 at EL&N, whose pistachio version is AED 44. Channel: the same chain can price the same drink differently on two platforms, as the Tim Hortons figures above show, so a platform price is a price for that channel, not a universal counter price.

One result cuts against the tier story: Black Sheep Coffee, a specialty name, prices its cappuccino and latte at AED 20 on Deliveroo — Starbucks money, below Costa. And EL&N, the most expensive coffee menu fetched, prices a plain croissant at AED 10, the cheapest in this pack. Menus do not move in one block, which is why this page prices lines, not brands.

What does cafe food cost beside the coffee?

The croissant is the standard cafe food anchor, and its chain prices are close: a plain croissant is AED 13 at Starbucks and a butter croissant is AED 12.50–14 at Costa Coffee — Costa’s bakery lines vary by branch by AED 1.50–2 while its coffee lines do not vary at all in the menus fetched. Filled croissants climb by filling: cheese at AED 16 and turkey and cheese at AED 19 at Starbucks; Emmental at AED 18–19.50 and smoked turkey and cheese at AED 23.50 at Costa. At the cafes, a plain croissant is AED 10 at EL&N and AED 19 at Two at Symphony, whose cheese croissant is AED 29 — the widest croissant spread in the pack, on the same item name.

The chains also publish the pairing as a single price. Starbucks combos price an iced Americano with a cheese croissant at AED 32 and a cappuccino with a turkey cheese croissant at AED 37; Costa’s pastry combo (a pastry with a hot or iced drink) is AED 33 and its filled croissant combo AED 39. Built as separate lines instead, a Starbucks cappuccino and plain croissant come to AED 33, and an EL&N latte with its AED 10 plain croissant comes to AED 39 — the combo band and the built-pair band agree, which is why the headline gives coffee with a croissant as AED 32–39.

Avocado toast is where cafe food pricing leaves the chains behind. Costa is the only chain with a priced avocado toast in the menus fetched — smashed avocado on sourdough at AED 25, on a Sharjah listing — and Starbucks publishes no avocado toast line at all in what was fetched. At the cafes the same item is a plate, not a snack: AED 59 at Two at Symphony (its avocado Benedict is also AED 59) and AED 70 at Nightjar. A coffee and an avocado toast is therefore a AED 41–51 order at a chain that sells one, and a AED 92 order at Nightjar (flat white AED 22 plus toast AED 70) — two different purchases sharing a name.

Two iced Spanish lattes in tall glasses beside a pastry case with croissants and muffins inside a cafe

What does a cafe breakfast cost?

Built from the same menus, a cafe breakfast has three levels. The counter level is coffee and a pastry: AED 32–39, as priced above. The toast-and-eggs level adds a cooked item: Costa’s scrambled egg and toast is AED 29 and its breakfast toastie is AED 32, so coffee and a cooked breakfast item at a chain runs to roughly AED 51–55. Nightjar prices eggs on toast at AED 35–38 and pancakes and a breakfast muffin at AED 52 each, putting a specialty cafe breakfast with coffee at roughly AED 57–80. The full-occasion brunch end of the market is priced in our Friday brunch guide, and the cafeteria end of breakfast in our budget meals guide.

Set against the cheap end of the same morning: the cafeteria breakfast built in our karak chai and cafeteria prices guide — a karak and a filled paratha — costs AED 7–15 at platform list prices. A cafe breakfast costs three to five times that before any avocado is involved. Neither is the correct breakfast; they are different products, and a monthly food budget needs both numbers, which is how they are used in our cost of living budgets.

How do prices change from one emirate to the next?

Dubai carries the deepest evidence in this pack: the full chain ladder, the petrol-station value chain, and the specialty cluster are all priced here from menus fetched today — Nightjar and Boon in the art and business districts, EL&N at a mall and a financial-district listing, Two at Symphony in a mall cafe, and a specialty name (Black Sheep Coffee) pricing at chain level. Numbeo’s crowd-sourced cappuccino for the city is Dh21.90, inside the chain band. The wider cheap-food map for the city is in our street food guide.

Abu Dhabi prices the same national chain menus at the same figures where its listings were fetched — Starbucks and Costa at their standard prices, Dunkin’ lattes at AED 19 — with one exception: the Tim Hortons listing on Yas Island is the cheapest Tim Hortons menu fetched anywhere in this pack (espresso AED 12, flat white AED 15 small, Spanish latte AED 21, all on Talabat). Al Ain, in the same emirate, is evidenced by chain listings only: Caribou Coffee there prices its latte and cappuccino at the national AED 21. Numbeo’s crowd-sourced cappuccino is Dh22.38 for the capital and Dh17.17 for Al Ain — crowd-sourced figures, not menus.

Sharjah holds both ends of this pack at once. Its chain listings carry national prices — including the premium cafe EL&N at AED 29 for a cappuccino on a Sharjah mall listing, and the only Costa avocado toast fetched, at AED 25 — while its cafeteria layer prices a cappuccino at AED 9.50 (Jenan Cafeteria). Numbeo’s crowd-sourced cappuccino for the city is Dh11.38, far below every chain menu and close to the cafeteria layer, which suggests its small contributor sample (53 people) is pricing a different mix of venues. The menu evidence and the crowd figure are both reported; neither is adjusted to meet the other.

Ajman is priced at the cafeteria layer only in this pack: Nescafe AED 4, cappuccino AED 6 and a special coffee AED 8 at Shay Al Souk Cafeteria on Talabat. No chain menu priced on an Ajman listing was retrieved, so no chain price is claimed for the emirate; Numbeo’s crowd-sourced cappuccino there is Dh13.92, between the cafeteria and chain layers.

Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain — honestly stated. Each of the first two is evidenced by a single national-chain listing on a local address: a Starbucks in Ras Al Khaimah and a Starbucks in Dibba, in Fujairah, both pricing the standard menu. No independent cafe menu price was retrieved for either emirate, and their Numbeo crowd figures (Dh20.56 each, on 19 and 16 contributors) cannot be checked against local menus — small-sample context, nothing more. Umm Al Quwain is a gap: a Dunkin’ listing for a mall there exists, but no priced lines specific to it were retrieved, so this page quotes no coffee price for the emirate at all. Two well-known names are gaps in the same way: no priced UAE menu was retrieved for % Arabica or RAW Coffee Company, so neither is priced anywhere on this page.

How do the chains compare with a specialty cafe and a cafeteria?

Line the three channels up with the figures fetched today, drink by drink. A cappuccino is AED 6–12 at a cafeteria, AED 17–22.50 at a chain and AED 22–29 at a specialty or premium cafe. A Spanish latte — the drink the cafeterias do not sell under that name — is AED 20–26 across the value and global chains and AED 28–40 at the cafes. A coffee with food is AED 7–15 for a cafeteria karak-and-paratha break, AED 32–39 for a chain coffee-and-croissant, and AED 57–92 for a specialty cafe breakfast plate with coffee. The crowd-sourced index prices the next rung of eating out — a sit-down inexpensive restaurant meal — well above all three coffee channels, and the full eat-out ladder is worked through in the guides linked from the breakfast section above.

The monthly maths is where the tiers stop being abstract. A flat white a day costs AED 570 a month at Starbucks prices (AED 19 × 30), AED 660 at Nightjar or Costa prices, AED 780 at Boon prices and AED 870 at EL&N prices. The same habit as a cafeteria cappuccino is AED 180 a month, and as a cafeteria Nescafe AED 90–240. A daily chain coffee-and-croissant breakfast at AED 32–39 is AED 960–1,170 a month — a grocery-budget-sized line, which is why the habit is the figure worth planning around.

FAQs

What is the cheapest cafe coffee in the UAE?

On checkable cafe menus, AED 16 — the latte and cappuccino at ADNOC Oasis Café on Talabat, fetched 9 November 2026 — with Dunkin’s brewed Original Coffee at AED 13 as the cheapest named chain cup of any kind. Below the cafes, a cafeteria Nescafe is AED 3 at Sakhrah Al Rosha Cafeteria and a cafeteria cappuccino is AED 6 at Shay Al Souk Cafeteria, both on Talabat. Budget AED 20 for a standard chain cappuccino or latte and you will rarely be wrong.

How much is a flat white?

AED 19 at Starbucks, AED 22 at Nightjar, AED 22.50 at Costa Coffee, AED 26 at Boon Coffee Roasters (8oz) and at Two at Symphony, and AED 29 at EL&N London — all on menus fetched 9 November 2026. The cheapest flat white fetched is AED 15, a small at Tim Hortons on Talabat; the same chain does not publish a flat white price on Deliveroo in what was fetched, so that figure rests on one listing and is stated as such.

Why is a Spanish latte so much more expensive at some cafes?

Because the name covers different builds at different tiers. At the value end it is a latte with condensed milk (Tim Hortons AED 21 on Talabat, AED 24 on Deliveroo; Dunkin’ AED 23). At the premium end it is a double-shot drink with a named sauce or paste: Nightjar AED 28, EL&N’s Classic Spanish AED 40 and its pistachio version AED 44, all on Deliveroo. The AED 19 spread between the cheapest and most expensive Spanish latte in this pack is the widest on any single drink name fetched.

What does a cafe breakfast cost?

From the items fetched today: coffee with a croissant is AED 32–39 at the chains (published combos and built pairs agree); coffee with a cooked chain breakfast item is roughly AED 51–55; and a specialty cafe breakfast — eggs on toast, pancakes or a breakfast muffin, with coffee — is roughly AED 57–80, rising to AED 92 where avocado toast is the plate. A cafeteria breakfast of karak and a paratha is AED 7–15 by contrast.

Do cafes publish their prices?

Many do, on the delivery platforms, and this page is built from those published menus. The gaps are named rather than filled: no priced menu was retrieved for % Arabica or RAW Coffee Company, Costa publishes no plain Spanish latte price in what was fetched, one well-known cafeteria lists its cappuccino as “Price on Selection”, and one emirate produced a chain listing with no retrievable priced lines at all. Where a cafe publishes nothing checkable, the honest price is “unpublished”.

Data sources used on this page:

  • Starbucks menus, multiple listings including Al Zeina (Al Raha) and Dibba (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://WWW.TALABAT.COM/uae/restaurant/676697/starbucks-al-zeina?aid=2061 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/712702/starbucks-dibba?aid=3883 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Starbucks menu, Industrial Area 11 listing — the lower-priced listing recorded as a disagreement (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/661029/starbucks-bukhatir-tower?aid=4001 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Starbucks menus (delivery-platform listings, Deliveroo; indexed menu text) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/the-palm/starbucks-golden-mile?day=today&geohash=thrnyt145jbw&time=ASAP — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Starbucks bakery and combos, DIFC-area listing (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/669374/starbucks-dubai-land-dept?aid=1256 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Pronto “We Proudly Serve” Starbucks listing, Oud Metha — a grocery-style channel, not used as a Starbucks store price (delivery-platform listing, Talabat) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/650181/pronto-oud-metha-1044?aid=1227 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Costa Coffee menus, multiple listings including Al Sarooj and Al Majaz 1 (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/618522/costa-coffee-al-mutawaa?aid=1893 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/41001/costa-coffee-al-majaz?aid=1530 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Costa Coffee bakery listings, Business Bay and Al Wasl areas — the AED 12.50 / AED 14 butter croissant pair (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/650433/costa-coffee-dnata-skh-zayed-rdbusiness-bay?aid=1190 and https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/735365/costa-al-wasl?aid=1229 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Tim Hortons by Snap menu, Yas Island listing (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/751163/express-by-tim-hortons-yas-island?aid=1498 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Tim Hortons menus, multiple branches including Silicon Central Mall (delivery-platform listings, Deliveroo; indexed menu text) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/silicon-oasis/tim-hortons-silicon-central-mall?day=today&geohash=thrqum69uqnv&time=ASAP — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Caribou Coffee menus, multiple listings including Uptown Mirdif (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/23033/caribou-coffee-uptown-mirdif?aid=1364 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Dunkin’ menus, multiple listings including Mussafah (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/38439/dunkin-mohammed-bin-zayed-city?aid=1485 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • ADNOC Oasis Café menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/740989/adnoc-oasis-caf-dubai-hills-526-damac-hills?aid=1212 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Nightjar menu, Alserkal listing (delivery-platform listing, Deliveroo; page opened in full) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/dubai/al-quoz-1/nightjar-coffee-roasters — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • The National — International Coffee Day: best cafes and drinks to try in the UAE (newspaper guide; corroborates the opened Nightjar menu) — https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/food/2025/09/30/best-coffee-shops-uae-dubai-abu-dhabi/ — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Boon Coffee Roasters menus, multiple branches including Downtown (delivery-platform listings, Deliveroo; indexed menu text) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/downtown-dubai-mall/boon-coffee-roasters-downtown?day=today&geohash=thrr92uxhv5v&time=ASAP — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • EL&N London menu, Festival City Mall listing (delivery-platform listing, Deliveroo; page opened in full) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/dubai/festival-city/el-n-london-dubai-festival-city-mall — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Two at Symphony cafe menu (own menu site; page opened) — https://two-at-symphony.apps.menuhaus.io/ — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Black Sheep Coffee menu, Boulevard Plaza listing (delivery-platform listing, Deliveroo; search-index menu text) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/Dubai/downtown-dubai-mall/black-sheep-coffee-boulevard-plaza?day=today&geohash=thrr39fhry4d&time=ASAP — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • 30Love Cafe menu, Al Quoz listing (delivery-platform listing, Deliveroo; search-index menu text) — https://deliveroo.ae/en/menu/dubai/al-quoz-3/thirty-love-cafe — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Shay Al Souk Cafeteria menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/716611/shay-al-souk-cafeteria-al-rashidiya-1?aid=1981 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Jenan Cafeteria menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/655235/jenan-cafeteria-al-falah-al-falah-suburb?aid=1513 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Juice and Shake Mania Cafeteria LLC menus (delivery-platform listings, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/752336/juice-and-shake-mania-cafeteria-llc-international-city?aid=10227 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Sakhrah Al Rosha Cafeteria menu (delivery-platform listing, Talabat; indexed menu text) — https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/732504/sakhrah-al-rosha-cafeteria-al-khan?aid=4002 — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Numbeo — Cost of Living city page, largest sample (crowd-sourced cappuccino figure; page opened) — https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Dubai — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Numbeo — Cost of Living comparison, capital against second city (crowd-sourced figures; page opened) — https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+Arab+Emirates&city1=Abu+Dhabi&country2=United+Arab+Emirates&city2=Sharjah — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Numbeo — Cost of Living in the United Arab Emirates (crowd-sourced UAE-wide figure; page opened) — https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=United+Arab+Emirates — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Numbeo — Cost of Living comparisons and city pages for the remaining cities (crowd-sourced figures; small samples flagged in the text) — https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+Arab+Emirates&city1=Ajman&country2=United+Arab+Emirates&city2=Ras+al-Khaimah and https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Al-Ain — retrieved 9 November 2026
  • Cafe guide — Best Cafes 2026 (guide; its Nightjar figures are recorded as disagreements, not used as prices) — https://dubaiinsiderguide.com/blog/best-cafes-dubai-2026 — 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. Guide figures are labelled as guide figures, crowd-sourced figures as crowd-sourced, and own-site menu figures as own-site figures. Where sources disagreed, both figures are shown in the text. Places and prices with no retrievable figure — % Arabica, RAW Coffee Company, a chain menu on an Ajman listing, a plain Spanish latte at Costa — are stated as gaps, not estimated.

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