HalfWalnut Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Dubai

Must Try: Jalapeno Poppers

Half Walnut is a brand new sports bar located at Aloft Mina.

The sports bar has an amazing outdoor seating which is ideal for winters. They also have projector for game nights.

For starters, we tried the Jalapeno Poppers, BBQ chicken wings and gnocchi. The dishes were delicious. The Jalapeno Poppers were delicious and theBBQ chicken wings was saucy and not overly sweet and the gnocchi was delicious. We tried the Alfredo Chicken Pasta which was nice however it was a bit bland. They also serve a variety of pizzas and tacos and with vegetarian options.

They have quite a few offers such as happy hours, quiz nights and ladies nights during the week so reservations will be useful.  They also serve shisha for the shisha lovers out there.

The portion size is good for the price range and the staff is attentive. Overall a great avenue with good pricing and...

Attended a quiz night with some friends recently. The overall ambiance is pretty good for a restaurant & bar, it seems quite catered to sports with screens set up showing football and ample seating. We did notice that they do have shisha as well.

The food however was a total let down. Along with drinks we just tried out a few bar bites but were so disappointed we didn't want to order mains.

The French fries were not crispy and definitely not made fresh, we were initially only given ketchup when we had asked for the cheese sauce and when we finally got it it was ice cold and stodgy.

Also the price point of the Chili Cheese Toast at AED 30 for halves of two slices of bread with a minimal amount of cheese, chili and capsicum was...

When we entered the place we thought it’s a nice place with a big screen and outdoor seating and my instant reaction was that I will revisit the place with my other group. All that changed the moment we ordered the food. Firstly, the service is really poor…..we asked for chilli flakes and onions and it arrived after the food was over. The yellow dal was unbelievably bad. The chicken dish was the ready to eat packet ones. The rotis were also the frozen ones. Pasta was cold and not at all good. The chili cheese toast was capsicum and cheese on a slice of bread without any taste at all. Total waste of money and so NOT...