Is Middle Child worth the queue?
Plus...Results of your poll feedback. Lana Lusa opens a third licensed branch. Bull & Bear's Sunday roast. And my new dining experience.
Before we tuck into this month’s newsletter, you may like to join my debut #OneNightOneDinner experience on the 20th November at Girl & The Goose by Gabriela Chamorro. I’d love to see you.
Take a peek with this reel HERE.
A huge thank you for your votes in last month’s poll. Here’s your feedback:
I accidentally voted, hence the bold font! With C snapping up the vast majority, you’re so amenable, as always. The most supportive foodie community I could ever ask for.
So for this month, here’s what I have plated for you:
Middle Child at Al Serkal reviewed as the lead story. In 800 words. So much for ‘concise’!
I don’t run reviews of new branches, however I’ve included a peek of my dinner at the third Lana Lusa outpost. Licensed at So Uptown Hotel in JLT.
A new Sunday roast at Bull & Bear, Waldorf-Astoria DIFC.
Middle Child
Concept & location: Second time lucky. I detest queues. Certainly not the British in me, so must be the Cypriot. But I made an exception for this ex-Google analyst turned home cook’s first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Al Serkal - Middle Child. No reservations. I had never heard of Beirut-born Lynn Hazim before, or knew that we lived in the same compound, until she recognised me in the outdoor queue, on a humid Sunday late September. I wasn’t ahead enough in the line and with zero intention of waiting outside in the heat for an hour, I left seeking sustenance elsewhere. Three weeks later, on a much-cooler Saturday in October, I arrived at 12noon for a 12.30pm opening and made it to second in the queue.
Top tip: get your hubbie to drop you off, whilst he stresses with the parking around this notoriously bad-for-accessibility complex, only to resort to the AED50 non-redeemable valet service.
Lynn, a middle child if you hadn’t already surmised, has been rammed from day one of an August opening, to the point of shutting shop on Monday and Tuesday to give her staff time off, until she can recruit new team members.