Bison

I'm flying home this week and it's a late night/early morning flight.

My plan is to leave the house around 8ish, go to a pub and have a nice bit of dinner and a few pints before checking in at the airport.

Can anyone recommend a good pub with nice food and near to DXB?

Bison

Spugsy

there's an irish village actually in the airport if you need, otherwise teh actual irish village or belgian beer cafe at DFC are near enough. Or Millennium hotel, its a bit crap but they do stella and chicken in a basket.

W10

Le Meridien has some great places to eat.

Bison

Tell me more..... you have the complete attention of my taste buds...

I really would like 'surf n turf' some nice steak and jumbo breaded king shrimp, yummer!

Bison

angel delight

if your flyoing with emirates just wait till your on the flight.. get all your drinks on there

W10

Well Sukothai is excellent, with a decent wine selection too

Yalumba is the venue of the now infamous brunch

M's steak house is not too bad, and there is an Irish pub.

After you've finished you can walk to the airport in 10 mins

admon

yeah right, that's really going to happen... avec suitcase et all

best place at meridien at the moment is the terrace - all inc food and hoegaarden for 190dhs or around that amount. Book first and don't go if it's raining.

there you go, in 3 weeks everyone on here will be talking about it as though they have just 'found' it, despite the fact it was refurbed last winter..

W10

Why not? When the airport is busy and there is a huge queue to get onto the slip roads you don't get off by the road and walk across?

The walk is no further than when you get off the Heathrow Express in London.

admon

providing he can get a taxi outside, he will take it.

and for one I can't imagine you walking accross the dodgy roadworks to get there, although you will no doubt argue the point..

just don't give me any of that 'it was flabby' talk, as I may just throw up..

W10

There is a walkway over the road that leads directly to the check in area.

And when the traffic was horrendous at the airport with a 20 min wait just to get into the airport grounds, yes, I used to get out by Le Meridien and walk. No big deal.

Just in the same way as when the taxi queue was stretching back to the door, I would walk across and catch a cab by Le Meridien.

admon

you have to go across the dodgy roadworks to get to the walkway...

W10

Walk through the back of Le Meridien, along the side of the road and then cut across the long term car park. I have done it on several occassions.

admon

now that is the long way round, especially with a suitcase..

why not have a walk to clock tower and back while your at it..

W10

I have walked both routes (and recently too) It's prerfectly manageable (and the roadworks are not so bad now).

Anyway...this was a thread about where he could go for a drink and food. So maybe it should return to one...

lionheart

Has anybody mentioned Dubliners Arms at Le Meridien Village? They do good pub food and have a Happy Hour up to 8pm I believe. If you have a trolley suitcase, it will be a 15 minute stroll to the airport via the pedestrian underpass that takes you into the main carpark, near the mosque. No roadworks that side.