ODÖNER PALM JUMEIRAH — Restaurant in Dubai

Beautifully located in La Mer facing the sea with mesmerising interiors and great choice of color combinations.

Mostly busy O Doner serves some authentic Turkish Cuisine. On our visit we had few hits & misses. One of the most important and positive aspect is their extremely extensive menu that offers all kinds of options to please every palate.

Ask for Doners, Pilaf, Sharing Plates, Pizzas, Kebabs, Cheese Sticks for your kiddos Or Pita Bread Sandwiches.

After almost deciding for around 15 minutes and getting confused about ordering almost of the items we narrowed it down to the fancy looking and very inviting Turkish Pilaf with Meat in a Pineapple cooked for around 5 hours. Quite eye pleasing, and it did have those flavours but it wasn't as great as we had expected. The quantity was just good enough for one person and costed 84Dhs. So we found it tad bit expensive as well, since we had imagined that at least it would be sufficient for two.

When visiting a Doner place you gotta order the doner and so another dish that we ordered was the Oropean Doner which was stuffed with chicken, cabbage, lettuce and loads of sauces. Definitely the Doner was finger licking good & was made to perfection. However, the price of the meal was for 75Dhs. Again we thought for a doner it was little highly priced since we can get similar doner's at little lesser price elsewhere. Nonetheless, it is to be kept in mind that it is a fine dining restaurant located in La Mer, so the food will be costing a little higher then the usual.

For desserts, ofcourse the famous baklava with their Turkish ice cream is a must try but it's a little but extra sweet so if u are a person who doesn't prefer too sweet this might not please you. And ofcourse my favourite cheese kunafa. One can never find faults in that right 😋🙈

For the drinks we opted for the famous home made Aryan. It is delish ! But again the glass it is served in quite small compared to what you will imagine specially since it is...

Visit - Dinner

Price - Medium Range

Dishes - Pilaf doner; Pineapple kebab; Iskender doner; Coketme kebab

Drinks – Pomegranate; Orange and carrots; Freshly brewed ice tea

Desserts – Famous Hatay Kunefe

Food Critic – The overall dining experience was fantastic as the food preparation seem to be perfect, service was also great as the staff are ready to explain about the dishes they serve, and the restaurant has a very lively atmosphere with a lot of money plants. Doner kebab is an essential part as most of the dishes revolve around doner meat (thin meat shavings) similar to shawarma meat.

Pilaf doner was a rice-based dish topped with doner meat and few veggies, while Pineapple kebab was the most unique dish I have ever seen in any Turkish restaurant as the meat and rice was served inside the pineapple and I would highly recommend food lovers to try this dish. Iskender doner was a platter dish served with baked pita bread being topped with tomato sauce and thinly sliced doner meat and accompanied with yoghurt. Coketme kebab was a fusion type of dish consisting of potato fried chips and doner meat being topped with different sauces.

The juices seem to be nice and refreshing to beat the summer heat. This is one of the few restaurants in Dubai which brew their own ice tea using fresh fruits.

Finally moving on to desserts the kunefe was also amazing as it had a proper balance of the sweet note.

Final Verdict – Decent restaurant with extremely good pricing, unlike other Turkish restaurants. The restaurant has a very family friendly atmosphere and the portions are generous.

Taste - 4/5

Price - 4/5

Presentation -...

ODoner is a Turkish Street food restaurant located in the central of La Mer. A very classy restaurant with the feel and looks of Turkish Ambience complete with their Mosaic tiles and colorful seats and decoration on the walls as well.

If you are looking out for a diff type of Turkish cuisine and a quick bite, come to this place. There is plenty of sitting arrangements both inside as well as outside the restaurant. Very quick and efficient service from well trained staff is what you can expect and get. Whatever we ordered from Juices to Street food starters to Desserts was simply superb.

Their ice cream was out of this world. Normally Turkish ice cream is very sluggish, but this one simply melted in the mouth. We tried the Strawberry, Pistachio which you must not miss. Their Kunafa was served on a special trolley with a layer of Candy floss which was heated in a torch and it melted down on the kunafa in a Glaze. Never had such a nice experience in Desserts.

Overall we loved the food, presentation, ambience and service here. A great place to visit with family...