BUBBALICIOUS BRUNCH

Been here twice, once on a normal vacay, and once during Easter. They are very kid friendly. They even have a secret bar for those with a black bracelet. The Easter event had a person dressed up as a bunny and they walked around, all though some children were scared. The Easter event even had bunny cookies scattered around the buffet. Highly recommended, but service was a bit hard to get, coz they wouldn’t go up to you and check, since it’s a buffet.

Completely over-priced and overrated experience. 450 a pop and we had to queue for our own drinks. The only outstanding was the playlist. Would not recommend it return. Way more enjoyable, better placed & value for money brunches out there.

They say Buballicious would be one of the best brunches in Dubai. Really? Booked, got confirmation and went there on Saturday, the 3rd of February 2024. Brunch is scheduled 1-4pm. Arrived at 1.30pm and they couldn’t find my name on the list. As it turned out, I didn’t bother to re-confirm my reservation, therefore the system kicked me out from the list. Anyway, they managed to assign me a table by 2pm. next to a Russian family with small kids. Then they put on my wrist a coloured bracelet marking the booze category I’ve chosen, so anyone from the audience could read it off. I perceived it as disconcerting as it was poorly conceived and thought through. In the end I managed to fix that dog tag under my watch.
Hot drinks weren’t included in any package. Ordered a mint lemonade which is famous in the Levant and got industrially produced, artificially tasting concoction. At these price I’ve expected a freshly squeezed one.
Waiters who served me were some like teenagers looking Asians speaking poor English. Communication was difficult, they were poorly trained and out of their depth. The waitress didn’t know the difference between a sauce and a mayonnaise. Seafood wasn’t special, guess it was from some farm. It was hard to pull the shrimps. As I don’t like steamed seafood placed on ice, I selected some prawns and lobsters and asked the Indian cooks to barbecue them. They made an overtaxed and disoriented impression. In the end they managed to tackle it. The ordered garlic mayonnaise arrived at my table one hour later. Best of all was the BBQ and smoker station. Brisket from the smoker and charcoal barbecued flank steak were top-notch: quality meat, tender and juicy. A well prepared quality product was the foie gras. The cheese variation was great, however the desserts didn’t convince me – pretty basic stuff.
Asked one of the supervising waiters to order to me the responsible manager of the event as I wanted to talk to him, but nobody appeared.
Bottom line: Quantity instead of class. There are some lovely dishes, but as a whole, it doesn’t justify the exorbitant price.

Very very good! The food is incredible (especially the curry) service very good as well, nice people and the atmosphere is great.

If you do one Brunch... tbh definitely the place to go... quite staggering the range of food all of which is excellent, staff are great... tourists... use sun cream even in winter.. looking like a lobster is not a great look !

I do have great photos but app won't go to the date of visit...