Dubai Hills Mall Restaurants: The Complete Guide by Cuisine & Occasion (2026)

For pizza at Dubai Hills Mall, our first stop is L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele. For a group wanting several Italian dishes, choose Eataly. For an Indian meal, start with Pincode or Zafran; for dumplings, compare Din Tai Fung and New Shanghai. Those choices do different jobs. This guide groups the restaurants by the meal you want and gives their floors, so you can choose a table without working through the whole mall directory. Cafés, dessert counters and nearby destination restaurants have their own sections.

Start with two decisions: how much time you have, and whether the group wants one cuisine or several. A pizza lunch, seafood boil and afternoon tea are different plans, even inside the same building. The quick-reference table below gives the floor for each shortlist choice. The cuisine sections explain where we would start for a particular meal, followed by coffee, casual food and restaurants elsewhere in Dubai Hills Estate. For a shopping break, choose the venue nearest your next stop; for a meal that is the whole outing, choose the restaurant first.

Where to start at Dubai Hills Mall

The mall’s dining options cover more than a food-court lunch. Eataly combines Italian dining and food shopping on the ground floor. First-floor Da Michele focuses on Neapolitan pizza, while Pincode by Kunal Kapur is another first-floor restaurant to compare for Indian food. Din Tai Fung is upstairs too; New Shanghai is downstairs. That split matters when your group is already at one end of a shopping trip. Our advice is to shortlist two venues in the same area rather than make everyone cross the mall for an unplanned second choice.

Quick reference: what to eat where

Big sit-down dinners

Din Tai Fung is our starting point for a group that actually wants dumplings, rather than a default answer for every diner. Its Dubai Hills outlet is on the first floor. Choose the dishes around the group’s preferences and dietary needs; a dumpling restaurant is a poor compromise if half the table wants something else. We would compare it with ground-floor New Shanghai for a Chinese meal. Neither a chain’s overseas recognition nor its reputation elsewhere establishes a Michelin award for this particular branch.

Eataly is our choice when Italian food and food shopping belong in the same outing. Its ground-floor address makes it a different route from first-floor Da Michele and Il Forno. Choose Eataly for the broader marketplace-and-restaurant format; choose Da Michele when pizza is the reason for coming. That is a more useful distinction than declaring one Italian venue better at everything. For a group, look at the current dishes before settling on a sharing order: pizza, pasta and individual mains can produce very different bills.

Kasibeyaz and Bosporus are both first-floor Turkish options. We would compare their current menus before choosing for a group, particularly if some guests want a full meat order and others want lighter dishes. First-floor Iran Zamin gives the table a Persian alternative. Choose the cuisine the group wants rather than treating these restaurants as interchangeable replacements for whichever has a queue. For a meal built around several dishes, agree what is being shared and which dishes are individual before ordering.

Cafe Gray is the ground-floor brasserie option for a meal that starts with coffee or continues into afternoon tea. The mall describes European flavours and breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and evening dining. Its nearest listed parking is P1 Sharaf DG. First-floor Wicked Crab is the seafood choice; make it the plan when the table wants that format rather than a mixed-cuisine compromise. Meat Moot and Parker’s are also upstairs, but Parker’s should not be treated as a dedicated steakhouse simply because the group wants a bigger meal.

Pizza, pasta and everything Italian

L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele is our pizza pick for its Neapolitan focus, but the Dubai Hills branch does not sell only margherita and marinara. The brand’s branch page also describes cosacca, anchovy-topped napoletana, fried and oven-stuffed pizzas, and changing specials. Choose a classic tomato-led pizza if that is what you want; there are other routes through the menu. The UAE operator lists this first-floor branch as open from noon to 11pm Monday–Thursday and noon to midnight Friday–Sunday. Its published phone number is +971 4 395 8996.

Jamie’s Italian is on the ground floor and Il Forno is on the first. Both belong in the comparison when the group wants a broader Italian restaurant meal rather than choosing purely around pizza. La Romana is a first-floor gelato stop, so we would treat it as dessert after the meal rather than an equivalent dinner venue. Decide whether dessert is part of the restaurant booking or a separate stop; that changes both the route and how much food to order at the table.

Asian beyond the dumplings

For an Asian shortlist, start with the meal rather than the décor. First-floor 1915 Lanzhou Beef Noodles is our pick to investigate for a noodle-soup order. Din Tai Fung is also upstairs, while New Shanghai is on the ground floor. Choose between noodles and dumplings before making the booking or walking to a different floor. A focused order is easier for a short lunch; a group sharing several dishes needs time to compare the menu and settle what everyone will eat.

Sushi Art is on the first floor; Sushi Library and Miyabi Sushi are on the ground floor. Those addresses give you three options to compare for a sushi meal, without assuming conveyor-belt service at any of them. First-floor Rosa’s Thai is the Thai choice. New Shanghai and first-floor Panda Chinese offer other Chinese options. Our preference is to choose one style for the meal, then use the floor to decide the route. That avoids choosing a restaurant on a photo and discovering it is the wrong format for the group.

Indian and Middle Eastern

Pincode by Kunal Kapur is our first-floor starting point for Indian food. Zafran is on the ground floor and Bikanervala is upstairs, so they need different shopping routes. Compare the actual Dubai Hills menus rather than importing prices from another branch: an Abu Dhabi offer is not automatically available here. For a shared meal, choose the mains first and add breads, rice and starters around them. We would rather build a coherent order than collect a large assortment of small plates that leaves the group unclear about the final bill.

Al Beiruti and Asli Beirut are first-floor Lebanese choices, with ZAATAR W ZEIT and Operation Falafel also upstairs for a more casual meal. AWANI is on the ground floor and Zou Zou on the first. This is a useful cluster for a table that wants to compare the region’s cuisines, but it still needs a choice: a quick wrap order and a seated group dinner are different outings. Choose the restaurant’s menu and format before deciding that everything in the category can serve the same purpose.

Coffee, bakeries and something sweet

For a ground-floor café-and-dessert route, compare Bartartine, Namelaka and Molten Chocolate Café. Upstairs, Ladurée, Café Bateel and La Romana offer separate stops. We would choose a dedicated dessert venue after dinner when the group wants different sweets, and keep dessert at the restaurant when continuing the conversation matters more than moving. Neither option needs a claim about which café is the most photographed. Choose the menu and floor that suit the outing, then leave room in the food order for the stop you actually intend to make.

Peet’s Coffee and Toby’s Estate are ground-floor options; ABC Coffee Roasters and L’ETO are on the first. Paul is downstairs too. Our recommendation for a shopping break is the nearest suitable café, rather than a long detour to a name you already know. Starbucks is listed on both floors, with Starbucks Reserve on the ground floor; Costa and Tim Hortons are also downstairs. For a meeting, compare the seating and the time you need with the venue itself. A coffee brand alone cannot tell you whether the particular table suits a long conversation.

Quick and casual

Wagamama is on the first floor, alongside Shake Shack, Charley’s Philly Steaks and Catch 22. Five Guys and Roadster Diner are on the ground floor. For a burger break, our practical choice is to stay on the floor the group is already using unless someone wants a specific restaurant. For noodles and rice, start with Wagamama’s menu. For children, choose around what they actually eat, not a blanket promise that one chain suits every family. A short individual order is easier to plan than an improvised sharing meal when everyone has a different preference.

Beyond the mall: Dubai Hills Business Park

Dubai Hills Business Park and Dubai Hills Golf Club are separate destinations from the mall. REIF Japanese Kushiyaki, TERO, avatara, Revelry and DUO Gastrobar belong in a wider Dubai Hills dining plan; The Duck Hook is at the golf club. Do not book one of them and then use the mall’s floor guide as the arrival instructions. Our choice is to make a destination dinner its own outing and a mall restaurant part of a shopping visit. If combining the two, plan the transfer using the actual restaurant address rather than assuming a short walk between buildings.

A note on planning your visit

Dubai Hills Mall posts restaurant and café trading hours on its Plan Your Visit page. Individual venues and holiday hours may differ, so confirm with the restaurant before travelling. For restaurant locations, check the mall’s current dining directory.

Dubai Hills Mall lists several parking entrances and valet access on its visitor information page. Check the mall’s current parking rules and any charges before your visit.

Our picks by occasion

Our shortlist starts with Da Michele for a pizza meal, Eataly for Italian food plus the marketplace, Din Tai Fung or New Shanghai for dumplings, and Pincode or Zafran for Indian food. Cafe Gray is the brasserie choice; Wicked Crab is for a seafood-led meal. For a quick burger stop, the first-floor Shake Shack and ground-floor Five Guys give you a simple location decision. The strongest plan is a restaurant that fits the meal, on a route that fits the visit. A longer list is useful only when it helps the table make that choice.

Three ways to plan the meal

A pizza-focused lunch: go to first-floor Da Michele and choose the pizzas before adding starters. Its Dubai Hills menu extends beyond the two classics, so the group has more choice than the original Naples shorthand suggests. If the meal starts before noon, choose another venue with confirmed earlier service; this branch’s published opening is noon.

An Italian meal with different preferences: start with ground-floor Eataly or Jamie’s Italian. First-floor Il Forno is another comparison if that is where your shopping route ends. We would keep the meal in one restaurant, then make a separate dessert stop only if everyone wants to move. A shared pizza plus several individual mains is not the same budget as one main each.

A café or afternoon-tea outing: start with ground-floor Cafe Gray for the brasserie format. Ladurée and Café Bateel are first-floor alternatives to inspect for a café stop. Ask the chosen venue for the current afternoon-tea menu and service window if that is the purpose of the trip; ordinary café opening hours do not establish when a set tea is served.

Facts checked on 9 October 2026.