Buffet Prices in the UAE

A buffet is the easiest restaurant meal to budget for — one fixed price per person, paid before the second plate — but the fixed prices themselves span an enormous range. On the venues’ own pages checked for this article, an everyday buffet in the UAE costs from AED 25 per person at a neighbourhood eat-all-you-can restaurant to AED 395 per person for a hotel dinner buffet, with hotel lunch buffets at AED 199–215 per person on primary hotel pages, hotel breakfast buffets at AED 145–315 per person, and restaurant buffets outside hotels mostly between AED 25 and AED 129 per person. The hotel at the top of that range and the restaurant at the bottom are not selling the same meal, and this page keeps the layers strictly apart: hotel lunch and dinner buffets in one section, hotel breakfast buffets in their own, buffet restaurants outside hotels in another, and children’s pricing only where a venue itself states it. Weekend brunch — the timed, drinks-packaged Saturday institution — is a different product with its own price ladder, covered separately in our guide to Friday brunch prices in the UAE; nothing from that page is re-quoted here. Every figure below was checked on 11 November 2026, hotel and restaurant pages first, with guide figures labelled wherever a venue does not publish its own price.

Last updated: 11 November 2026. Every price below was retrieved on 11 November 2026 from the hotel’s or restaurant’s own page wherever one publishes a price; where the figure comes from a guide instead, the text and the table say so. Buffet menus rotate, themed nights change, and opening offers expire, so confirm the price for the day you plan to go before you travel — and note the tax wording where a venue states it, because some prices on this page are quoted excluding VAT and others include it.

How much does a buffet cost in the UAE?

Start with the two ends of the market, because everything else sits between them. At the top, Gastronomy at Atlantis The Royal lists its daily dinner buffet at AED 395 per person on the hotel’s own page — a food-hall format with live cooking stations, served every evening from 6pm to 10pm. At the bottom, Sweet Pepper, a long-running neighbourhood restaurant, lists its unlimited eat-all-you-can Asian and Filipino buffet from AED 25 per person on its own site, served daily until midnight. Between those two numbers, price follows format more than it follows food: the same broad promise — eat as much as you like for one per-person price — costs AED 49 at a Filipino buffet restaurant, AED 129 at a seafood restaurant’s weekly all-you-can-eat night, AED 199 to AED 215 at a mid-range hotel’s lunch or dinner buffet, and AED 265 to AED 395 at a luxury hotel’s themed dinner nights.

Three habits keep any figure on this page honest. First, compare like with like: breakfast, a weekday lunch and a Saturday seafood night at the same hotel can differ by more than AED 200 per person. Second, check what the price includes — some hotel prices below include soft drinks, others charge drinks on top, and one restaurant’s all-you-can-eat price excludes drinks while including VAT. Third, treat any voucher price as a promotion, never as the rate: deal sites sell several buffets below at a discount to the venue’s list price, and this article quotes list prices throughout.

Buffet	Per person (AED)	What the price covers	Source
Sweet Pepper — eat-all-you-can (daily)	From 25	Unlimited Asian & Filipino buffet; site range 25–60	Restaurant’s own site
ZAUQ — lunch or dinner buffet (daily)	49	Buffet only; drinks extra	Restaurant’s own site
CTS Kitchen — unlimited buffet	49	Includes drinks, desserts and ice cream per the site	Restaurant’s own site
Urban Seafood — all-you-can-eat (Tuesdays)	129, VAT included	Unlimited seafood; drinks not included	Restaurant’s own site
Anise — lunch buffet	199	Includes water, juices & soft drinks	Hotel’s own page
Anise — dinner buffet	215	Includes water, juices & soft drinks	Hotel’s own page
Saffron — themed dinner nights	265–295	Buffet, by night: International 265, Roast/Arabic 285, Seafood 295	Hotel’s own page
Ewaan — Seafood Theme Night (Saturdays)	369 soft / 499 house	Buffet with soft or house beverages	Hotel’s own page
Gastronomy — dinner buffet (daily)	395	Buffet; child 4–11 at 198	Hotel’s own page
Anise — breakfast buffet	145	Includes water, juices, tea & coffee	Hotel’s own page
Kaleidoscope — breakfast buffet (daily)	180	Buffet; child 4–11 at 90	Hotel’s own page
Gastronomy — breakfast buffet (daily)	315	Buffet; child 4–11 at 158	Hotel’s own page

The table is a map, not a ranking: the AED 49 rows and the AED 395 row are all honestly priced for what they are — a neighbourhood buffet built for regulars, and a flagship hotel food hall built as an occasion. The sections below take each layer in turn. For eating out beyond the buffet format, see our guide to eating out costs, and for the cheapest end of everyday eating, our budget meals guide.

What do hotel lunch and dinner buffets cost?

The clearest primary-source anchor in this layer is Anise, the all-day dining restaurant at InterContinental Dubai Festival City, because its hotel page prices all three meals in the same format. Lunch costs AED 199 per person, including still water, juices and soft drinks, served weekdays from 12:30pm to 3:30pm and weekends from 1pm to 4pm. Dinner costs AED 215 per person on the same inclusions, daily from 6:30pm to 11pm. House beverages are an add-on at both meals: AED 99 per person for two hours of unlimited house beverages. The same page prices the restaurant’s Friday Seafood Night from AED 275 per person — a themed dinner night, priced above the everyday dinner buffet at the same venue, which is the usual pattern: the everyday buffet is the floor, and themed nights sit on top of it.

At the luxury end, the pattern repeats at higher numbers. Saffron at Atlantis, The Palm prices its themed dinner nights on the hotel’s own page by night rather than as one buffet price: the International Night runs at AED 265 per person on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays; the Roast Night on Saturdays and the Arabic Night on Fridays both run at AED 285; and Seafood Tuesdays — lobster, crab, oysters, grilled fish and prawns at live stations — run at AED 295. Gastronomy at Atlantis The Royal, the sister property’s food hall, prices its daily dinner buffet at a single AED 395 per person. Ewaan at Palace Downtown prices its Saturday Seafood Theme Night at AED 369 per person with soft beverages and AED 499 with house beverages, on Address Hotels’ own offers page; a guide to the same hotel’s weekday themed nights — rotating barbecue, Turkish, Levantine and Mediterranean nights from Sunday to Wednesday — puts those at AED 199 per person, with soft drinks as a AED 70 add-on and house beverages as a AED 125 add-on. That guide figure is labelled as one: no hotel page retrieved for this article states the weekday AED 199 price.

Two famous hotel buffets come with a warning label instead of a clean price. Kitchen6 at JW Marriott Marquis is listed on Marriott’s own dining page with its meal periods but no prices — the page notes the venue is undergoing enhancements, with guests served at a sister outlet meanwhile. Guides fill the gap and disagree: weekend lunch agrees at AED 230 per person with soft beverages in two guides, but dinner is AED 260 in one guide, AED 235 in a family guide updated in November 2026, and AED 210 to AED 225 by night in a menu-price guide, with weekday lunch at AED 165 to AED 170. Mina’s Kitchen at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi is priced in the same November 2026 family guide at AED 175 for the weekday lunch buffet and AED 210 for dinner, themed nights priced differently; its hotel page was not opened for this article, so those are guide figures too. For both venues the honest summary is a range, not a rate.

One hotel restaurant breaks the pattern entirely. ZAUQ, in the lobby of Swissotel Al Ghurair, prices its lunch and dinner buffets at a single AED 49 per person on its own site — Pakistani, Indian, Arabic and international dishes with live barbecue and tandoor, lunch from midday to 3:30pm and dinner from 7pm to 10:30pm, drinks charged on top. A five-star hotel address does not always mean a three-figure buffet. If seafood is the point of the meal rather than the format, our seafood prices guide prices fish and shellfish by the dish and by the kilo.

What does a hotel breakfast buffet cost?

Breakfast is the buffet most residents actually buy — as a walk-in treat, for visiting family, or to test a hotel before booking its dinner — and it is also the layer where hotels publish prices most reliably. On the hotel pages opened for this article, the span is AED 145 to AED 315 per person. Anise prices breakfast at AED 145 per person including still water, juices, tea and coffee, served from 6:30am to 10:30am on weekdays and to 11am at weekends. Kaleidoscope at Atlantis, The Palm prices its daily breakfast buffet at AED 180 for ages 12 and above on the hotel’s own page. Gastronomy at Atlantis The Royal prices breakfast at AED 315 per person, served daily from 7am to midday, and prices its weekend late breakfast — the same spread, seated from 12:30pm to 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays — at the same AED 315. The hotel lists that late sitting as a breakfast, so it is recorded in this layer; it is not one of the drinks-packaged brunch products covered on the brunch page.

Guide figures widen the breakfast picture downward. The November 2026 family guide prices Mina’s Kitchen’s breakfast buffet at AED 135 per person — corroborated at exactly AED 135 per adult by the hotel’s listing on a major booking platform — and Kitchen6’s breakfast at AED 155. Neither figure appears on the hotel’s own page retrieved for this article, so both stay labelled as guide figures. Two gaps are worth naming. Kaleidoscope’s own page publishes no everyday lunch or dinner price — only breakfast and festive-season prices, which are seasonal and not quoted here as everyday rates. And every breakfast figure here is the walk-in per-person price, the number a non-resident pays at the door; a breakfast-included room rate is a room-pricing question, not a buffet price.

What do buffet restaurants outside hotels charge?

Step outside the hotels and the per-person price falls by half or more, because the product changes: fewer live stations, a tighter cuisine focus, and rooms built for regulars rather than occasions. The floor of this layer — and of the whole article — is Sweet Pepper in Al Satwa, which lists its unlimited eat-all-you-can Asian and Filipino buffet from AED 25 per person on its own site, open daily from 9am to midnight, with the site’s stated price range running from AED 25 to AED 60. The site does not break that range down by meal period on the page checked, so AED 25 is a starting price, quoted as one. CTS Kitchen in Deira, a Filipino buffet inside a hotel building but run as a standalone restaurant, lists its unlimited buffet at AED 49 per person on its own site, describing it as including Filipino favourites, seafood selections, drinks, desserts and homemade ice cream — unusually, drinks are inside the price here, where most venues on this page charge them on top. For more everyday Filipino food pricing beyond the buffet format, see our Filipino food prices guide.

The grill-buffet chains sit a step higher, and their pricing is a ladder, not a number. AB’s Absolute Barbecues published its dine-in ladder on its own account as a limited-time offer: lunch at AED 55 Monday to Thursday, AED 75 on Fridays and AED 89 on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; dinner at AED 75 Monday to Thursday and AED 89 on Fridays and weekends. Barbeque Nation’s pricing could not be verified on the chain’s own website in this run, and its figures move by branch and date: an opening offer at one branch in September 2026 priced lunch at AED 49 and dinner at AED 59 Monday to Friday with taxes extra, while later coverage of the same branch puts lunch at AED 62, dinner at AED 72 and weekends at AED 94, and another branch’s ladder at AED 64, AED 74 and AED 96. Read those as a band — roughly AED 49 to AED 96 by branch, day and whether an opening offer is still running — never as a chain-wide rate. One delivery-platform trap deserves its own sentence: Absolute Barbecues also sells a “Buffet Box for 1” on Talabat at AED 58, a boxed set of starters, mains and desserts for delivery. It carries the word buffet, but it is a delivery product, not a dine-in price, and is not counted in the ladder above; our food delivery app costs guide explains the fees that would sit on top of it at checkout.

Two more restaurant formats complete the layer. Urban Seafood runs an all-you-can-eat seafood night every Tuesday at its Outlet Village branch, priced on its own site at AED 129 per person with VAT included — grilled and fried shrimp, seabream, sardines, fish fillet, calamari, soups and seafood paella, served as sharing portions by party size, with drinks not included and a reservation required. Pancake House, the Filipino-American chain, prices two narrow buffets on its own promotions page: unlimited pancakes every Tuesday at AED 59 per person, and a weekend dinner buffet on Saturdays and Sundays from AED 29 per person — “from” is the restaurant’s own wording. Its weekend brunch buffet is listed on the same page with hours but no price, so no price is quoted for it here. LalQila, the Mughlai-themed restaurant, is priced by guide figures attributed to its current menus: weekday lunch at AED 44 per adult excluding VAT with complimentary chai, weekend lunch at AED 65 and dinner at AED 95, both excluding VAT. Danial Restaurant, a continental buffet with branches in three emirates, publishes its list prices on a deal listing: AED 78 per adult at two branches and AED 89 per adult at the third, with vouchers sold below those figures — the list prices are the rates quoted here, and the voucher prices are promotions, not the buffet price. For the sweet end of a buffet meal priced separately, our bakeries and desserts prices guide covers cakes, pastries and ice cream by the item.

How is an everyday buffet different from weekend brunch?

The two products share a buffet line and almost nothing else. An everyday buffet — everything priced on this page — is a meal-period product: a breakfast, lunch or dinner sitting, priced per person for the food, sometimes with soft drinks included, sold on weekdays as readily as weekends, with no fixed end time beyond the meal period itself. Weekend brunch is an occasion product: a single timed sitting, usually three to four hours on a Saturday, priced by drinks package — soft, house, sparkling, champagne — so the same food can carry four different per-person prices depending on what flows with it, and the food is often only half of what the ticket buys, alongside entertainment, venue access and the social slot itself. That is why brunch prices are never used on this page as evidence for buffet prices, and why a hotel can honestly price its Friday dinner buffet at AED 285 and its Saturday brunch at several hundred dirhams more per person in the same room. A seasonal variant of the same format — the Ramadan iftar buffet — is priced separately in our Ramadan iftar prices guide.

The practical consequence is simple: if what you want is the food — variety, seconds, a fixed total — an everyday lunch or dinner buffet buys it at the prices above, any day of the week. If what you want is the occasion, brunch is the product, and its full per-package ladder is laid out in our guide to Friday brunch prices in the UAE. Comparing the two in either direction always misleads: they are different sittings that happen to share a serving format.

What do children pay at a buffet?

Only where a venue states a child’s price itself — and the venues that do state one split into two systems. The first system prices the child as a fixed figure inside an age band. Anise charges children aged 6 to 12 AED 50 at breakfast and AED 100 at lunch and dinner, with children below 6 dining free — the hotel’s own words are “with our compliments”. Kaleidoscope charges children aged 4 to 11 AED 90 against its AED 180 adult breakfast. Gastronomy charges children aged 4 to 11 exactly half the adult price at both meals: AED 158 against AED 315 at breakfast and AED 198 against AED 395 at dinner. The November 2026 family guide gives Mina’s Kitchen the same shape in guide figures: children aged 6 to 12 at AED 45 for breakfast, AED 75 for lunch and AED 95 for dinner, with ages 0 to 5 free. Danial’s published list prices include a child’s price of AED 42 for ages 4 to 12 at all branches.

The second system is a percentage. ZAUQ states on its own site that children receive a 20% discount on its AED 49 buffet — it publishes no age band and no separate child price, so the percentage is all that can honestly be quoted; 20% off AED 49 works out to AED 39.20. Barbeque Nation’s child pricing appears only in branch-level coverage: at one branch, children aged 6 to 9 are priced at AED 38 with under-5s free when accompanied by four adults carrying Emirates ID — a condition-heavy, branch-specific guide figure, not a chain policy. LalQila’s child price splits between secondary sources (AED 30 plus VAT in one account, AED 35 at lunch and AED 49 at dinner for ages 5 to 9 in another), so no LalQila child figure is quoted on this page. The general lesson is that “kids eat free” almost always carries an age ceiling — under 5 or under 6 at the venues above — and a child a year or two older moves to a half-price or fixed child rate that can add AED 90 to AED 198 per child at the luxury end. Families comparing venues should compare the full table’s arithmetic, adults and children together, not the adult headline alone.

What is included in the price, and what costs extra?

The per-person price buys the buffet line; almost everything beyond it varies by venue, and the venues on this page state their inclusions in four different ways. The most generous hotel wording is Anise’s: lunch and dinner include still water, juices and soft drinks inside the AED 199 and AED 215 prices, breakfast includes water, juices, tea and coffee inside AED 145 — and the boundary is equally explicit, with house beverages as a priced add-on at AED 99 per person for two hours. Ewaan’s seafood night takes the other route and prices the drinks inside the ticket from the start: AED 369 with soft beverages or AED 499 with house beverages, a AED 130 step that buys the drinks package rather than more food. ZAUQ sits at the opposite pole: its AED 49 covers the buffet only, and its own site lists tea, coffee, soft drinks, fresh juices, lassi and mocktails as available at additional cost. CTS Kitchen, at the same AED 49 headline, states that drinks, desserts and homemade ice cream are inside its unlimited buffet — the clearest demonstration on this page that two identical headline prices can buy different totals.

Tax wording is the second hidden layer, and most venues are silent about it. Only Urban Seafood states its position inside the price: AED 129 per person, VAT included. LalQila’s guide figures are explicitly excluding VAT — its AED 44 weekday lunch is AED 46.20 at the till — and Barbeque Nation’s opening offer states taxes extra. The Atlantis and InterContinental pages checked state no tax wording, and none is assumed here: ask the venue whether service charge and VAT sit on top, because a “++” convention is common in hotel dining. Finally, promotions sit outside the rate entirely: deal-site vouchers are time-limited offers with their own conditions, which is why this article quotes list prices and mentions vouchers only as a way to pay less.

How can a household keep buffet costs down?

Choose the meal period, not just the venue. At the same hotel, lunch undercuts dinner and breakfast undercuts both: Anise runs AED 145 at breakfast, AED 199 at lunch and AED 215 at dinner, and the guide ladder at Kitchen6 runs from AED 155 at breakfast to AED 230–260 later in the day. A family that wants the hotel room and the live stations at the lowest per-person price should book the earliest sitting that suits them.

Use the weekday ladder at grill chains. The grill restaurants price by day deliberately: Absolute Barbecues’ own ladder steps from AED 55 at a Monday-to-Thursday lunch to AED 89 at the weekend, and Barbeque Nation’s branch ladders step the same way. The food format does not change across the week; the price does, by as much as AED 34 per person — AED 136 on a table of four.

Do the children’s arithmetic before choosing. A venue with a higher adult price can be the cheaper table once children are counted: under-6s dine free at Anise against its AED 199 lunch, while a venue charging half price for a 4-to-11 band adds AED 158 to AED 198 per child at the luxury breakfast and dinner sittings. Price the whole table — adults at the adult rate, each child at their band’s rate — before deciding which venue is “expensive”.

Check the venue’s list price, then look for a voucher against it. Several buffets on this page are sold through deal sites below list price. The saving is real, but the order matters: establish the list price first (Danial’s, for example, is AED 78 or AED 89 per adult depending on branch), then judge any voucher against that figure and its conditions — validity days, booking requirements, branch restrictions — rather than against the struck-through price the deal site chooses to display.

Match the format to the appetite. A buffet only beats ordering by the dish when the table will genuinely eat across the line — seconds, multiple cuisines, dessert. For a light eater, a neighbourhood buffet from AED 25 to AED 49, a supermarket ready meal from our ready meals and meal deals guide, or a regular meal from our budget meals guide, will cost less than a AED 199 hotel sitting eaten at half capacity. The fixed price rewards appetite; it does not create it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the cheapest buffet in the UAE?

The cheapest per-person buffet price found on a venue’s own site for this article is Sweet Pepper’s unlimited eat-all-you-can buffet from AED 25 per person, served daily until midnight; the site’s stated range runs to AED 60. The cheapest hotel buffet is ZAUQ at AED 49 per person for lunch or dinner, with drinks extra.

What is the most expensive everyday buffet?

On primary hotel pages, Gastronomy’s daily dinner buffet at AED 395 per person is the highest everyday — non-festive, non-brunch — buffet price checked. Festive sittings at the same venues run far higher, and weekend brunch champagne packages higher still, but both are different products and are not counted here.

Do buffet prices include drinks?

It depends on the venue, and the venues checked state it four ways: included soft drinks (Anise lunch and dinner), drinks packaged into the ticket at two levels (Ewaan at AED 369 soft or AED 499 house), drinks charged on top (ZAUQ), and drinks included in a restaurant buffet price (CTS Kitchen at AED 49). Alcohol is an add-on or a higher package at every hotel venue on this page — AED 99 per person for two hours of house beverages at Anise.

Do children eat free at buffets?

Sometimes, inside an age band. Children below 6 dine free at Anise, and the guide figures for Mina’s Kitchen put ages 0 to 5 free; other venues charge a fixed child price instead — AED 90 to AED 198 per child at the Atlantis venues for ages 4 to 11 — or a percentage discount, such as ZAUQ’s 20% for children. No venue checked offers free entry to older children as a standard rule.

Are buffet prices quoted with tax?

Only where the venue says so. Urban Seafood states VAT included in its AED 129; LalQila’s guide figures are excluding VAT and Barbeque Nation’s opening offer states taxes extra. Most hotel pages checked state no tax wording, so treat the all-in total as unconfirmed until the venue confirms whether service charge and VAT sit on top.

Is a buffet cheaper than ordering from the menu?

For a hungry table, usually — the fixed price covers starters, mains, live stations and dessert in one figure, where ordering the same spread by the dish would add up past it. For a light or single-dish appetite, no: a neighbourhood buffet from AED 25 or a regular menu meal will cost less than a mid-range hotel buffet at AED 199 to AED 215 per person. Compare against the per-dish prices in our seafood prices and eating out guides if you are deciding between formats.

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Sources

• InterContinental Dubai Festival City — Anise page (breakfast AED 145 incl. water, juices, tea & coffee; lunch AED 199 and dinner AED 215 incl. water, juices & soft drinks, house beverages +AED 99; Seafood Night from AED 275; children 6–12 AED 50 breakfast / AED 100 lunch & dinner, below 6 free) (hotel’s own page): https://www.dubaifestivalcityhotels.com/anise
• Atlantis The Royal — Gastronomy page (breakfast AED 315, child 4–11 AED 158; late breakfast AED 315; dinner buffet AED 395, child 4–11 AED 198) (hotel’s own page): https://www.atlantis.com/dubai/atlantis-the-royal/dining/gastronomy
• Atlantis, The Palm — Kaleidoscope page (breakfast AED 180 ages 12+, AED 90 ages 4–11; no everyday lunch/dinner price published) (hotel’s own page): https://www.atlantis.com/dubai/atlantis-the-palm/dining/kaleidoscope
• Atlantis, The Palm — Saffron page (International Night AED 265; Roast Night AED 285; Arabic Night AED 285; Seafood Tuesdays AED 295) (hotel’s own page): https://www.atlantis.com/dubai/atlantis-the-palm/dining/saffron
• Address Hotels — Ewaan brunch offers page, Palace Downtown (Seafood Theme Night Saturdays AED 369 soft / AED 499 house) (hotel’s own page): https://www.addresshotels.com/en/offers/ewaan-brunch-offers-palace-downtown/
• ZAUQ Restaurant — own site (buffet AED 49 per person, lunch and dinner; children 20% discount; drinks at additional cost) (restaurant’s own site): https://www.zauq.ae/
• Urban Seafood — own site (All You Can Eat Seafood Tuesdays AED 129 per person, VAT included, drinks not included) (restaurant’s own site): https://www.urbanseafood.net/
• Sweet Pepper Restaurant & Cafe — own site (unlimited eat-all-you-can buffet from AED 25; stated range AED 25–60) (restaurant’s own site): https://sweetpepperdubai.today/
• CTS Kitchen Dubai — own site (unlimited buffet AED 49 including drinks, desserts and ice cream; After Party Buffet list AED 35, promotional AED 24.99) (restaurant’s own site): https://sites.google.com/view/ctskitchendubai
• Pancake House UAE — Deals and Buffets page (All-You-Can-Eat Tuesday AED 59; Weekend Dinner Buffet from AED 29; Weekend Brunch Buffet listed with no price) (restaurant’s own site): https://www.pancakehouse.ae/promotions
• AB’s Absolute Barbecues — own social post (dine-in ladder: lunch AED 55 Mon–Thu / 75 Fri / 89 weekends; dinner AED 75 Mon–Thu / 89 Fri & weekends; headed limited-time offer) (restaurant’s own social post): https://www.instagram.com/p/Db5DmMJtG7V/
• Talabat — Absolute Barbecues menu (Buffet Box for 1 AED 58 — delivery product, not dine-in) (Talabat menu): https://www.talabat.com/uae/restaurant/39471/absolute-barbecues-al-sufouh-1?aid=1304
• Lil One of the Ashes — Ultimate Guide to Dubai Hotel Buffets for Families, updated November 2026 (Kitchen6 breakfast AED 155, weekday lunch AED 170, weekend lunch AED 230, dinner AED 235; Mina’s Kitchen breakfast AED 135, lunch AED 175, dinner AED 210, children 6–12 AED 45/75/95, 0–5 free) (guide figure): https://liloneoftheashes.com/2026/08/17/dubai-hotel-restaurants-buffet/
• The Dubai Atlas — 5 Best Buffets in Dubai, October 2026 (Kitchen6 dinner AED 260, weekend lunch AED 230; Gastronomy dinner AED 375 guide figure against hotel’s own AED 395; LalQila weekday lunch AED 44, weekend lunch AED 65, dinner AED 95, all excluding VAT) (guide figure): https://thedubaiatlas.com/best-buffets-in-dubai-worth-booking/
• The Fashion With Style — Weekday Themed Nights at Ewaan (Sunday–Wednesday buffet AED 199; soft package +AED 70; house package +AED 125) (guide figure): https://thefashionwithstyle.com/food/weekday-themed-nights-at-ewaan-palace-downtown/
• Al Ghurair Centre — Yalla Buffet by Barbeque Nation opening-offer post (lunch AED 49 Mon–Fri; dinner AED 59 Mon–Fri, Friday dinner AED 79; taxes extra) (guide figure): https://www.facebook.com/alghuraircentre/posts/pfbid0Ky4mtEft6wk1ndhfKZu5LD4wnS9NeWMgGrt8HfvMZqadkM9RhXueJZqXJXgXUi99l
• Cobone — Continental Buffet at Danial Restaurant listing (venue list prices: adult AED 78 Sharjah/Ajman branches, AED 89 Dubai branch; child 4–12 AED 42; vouchers sold below list — promotions, not quoted as the rate) (deal-site listing showing list prices): https://www.cobone.com/en/deals/food-dining-dubai/1-continental-buffet-at-danial-restaurant/220819
• Marriott — JW Marriott Marquis dining page (Kitchen6 meal periods published, no prices; venue under enhancement) (hotel’s own page): https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/dxbjw-jw-marriott-marquis-hotel-dubai/dining/explore-culinary-delights/casual-restaurants/

How we checked: every figure in this article was retrieved on 11 November 2026, hotel and restaurant pages first. The layers were never merged: hotel lunch/dinner prices, hotel breakfast prices, restaurant buffet prices and children’s prices were gathered and are presented separately, and weekend brunch packages were excluded throughout because they are priced by drinks package on a separate page of this site. Where a venue publishes no price — Kitchen6 on Marriott’s own current page, Kaleidoscope’s everyday lunch and dinner, Pancake House’s weekend brunch buffet — the article says so and labels any guide figure that fills the gap, with disagreements between guides reported rather than averaged. Deal-site voucher prices were never quoted as a buffet’s price: where a listing publishes the venue’s list price, the list price is the figure used and the voucher is mentioned only as a promotion. Festive prices (Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving) shown on hotel pages were not recorded as everyday prices. Two pages could not be opened in this run because of a browser rate limit — the Address Hotels offers page for Ewaan and Danial Restaurant’s own site — so the Ewaan seafood-night prices rest on the hotel’s own page as returned in search results, corroborated by two October 2026 hospitality round-ups, and Danial’s figures rest on its published branch list prices; both are labelled with their channel wherever they appear.