Tandoor Tina — Restaurant in Dubai

We had a top class iftar feast in this new restaurant of 4 months at the 25h Dubai One Central Hotel in trade centre area yesterday. The cost is 175 dhs per person with minimum two persons at the table for this menu, from sunset to 2100 hrs. It is a large restaurant with a courtyard open area for outdoors and a brilliant indoor setting. The interiors really impressed us with lot of shrubs, herbs, paintings, subdued lighting and wood works. They had a prize for best restaurant from timeout Dubai in 2022. The cuisine is mainly North Indian with some delectable twists of Arabic and Continental items. Mr. Rajat welcomed us after entering and patiently explained the menu with lots of background and other stories of the hotel. He knows well how to entertain the guests properly and arranged the for the food to be served at the right time and even pack for the extra portions to be sent home too. Appreciate his hospitality. One interesting thing is that they give two distinctly different plates to the two diners- quite attractive ones. The set menu starts with on table dates, walnuts, dry apricots etc to break the fast. I must compliment the quality of the fruits and nuts- the dates were plump, juicy, large. Then a qamar al din juice which is a mix of orange, apricot and some other condiments- a nice refresher drink. The hot lentil soup/dal, is a lovely addition to start the next part. Snack's thali follows and it's a large sharing thali. Around 12 items are available. I loved the cauliflower croquets, tandoori beetroot on a base of yoghurt, chicken samosas, cheese chicken salad a lot. There small coin sized Arabic breads, naans, grape leaves stuffed with beef, turmeric hummus, carrot kosambari- keralite dish, radish cucumber and cherry tomato salad, pickled onion, coconut raita and mint dips. It takes a long time to finish all of these. After these comes the main course. The items are Butter chicken, Chargrilled lamb biriyani, Okra Salona, Chargrilled Broccoli and Chargrilled Sea bream fillet. The butter chicken is perfectly prepared and with large quantity to be paired with basmati rice. Okra is with tomato sauce , a bit tangy but very well cooked- one of the best. The Broccoli were also done very well- loved it. Finally the best of the lot for me was the Chargrilled sea bream fish fillet. A super delicious item with perfect marination of mint and some crunchy cashew nuts probably, it was wonderful. Highly recommended for ala carte dining too. We signed off with some arabic desserts, an Umm Ali and an unique fusion item - Nutella Naan topped with a coconut ice cream. They were very well presented with small flowers and chocolate art and quite tasty. The overall dining experience was very nice and I savoured my time here. Recommended to have a hearty and tasty...

I went with my family today for Iftar after making a reservation only to be kept waiting for 15-20 min with two staff arguing with us about not finding our name in the reserved list. We were a group of 4 plus 2 children. We waited patiently initially only to be met with disrespectful staff especially Rachel who literally walked away while I was talking to her. We were being offered a low table right at the entrance of the restaurant which could only fit the adults and not the children.

We had spoken to the reservation staff for reserving the table in advance who clearly messed up reservations; we were asked at least three times to give our name and contact number and was met with the same argument that they can’t see our name in the list. When we insisted Rachel came back after making a few calls and offered us a table which was minutes away from Iftar. When asked for what happened with our reservation she kept saying she can’t find it.

Upon getting seated, the service was botched up completely. We had to order our coffee repeatedly thrice to three different waiters before it came. Later we had to wait for a long time for the main course followed by a longer wait for dessert. We ended up asking for the bill as our kids were almost dozing off from the delay. The bill and dessert came together.

The food was decent and there were some excellent dishes. However, the poor attitude, rude behavior and terrible service makes it worthless to go there again.

This was our second time there, first time being breakfast - which wasn’t half bad an experience.

I really hope they take measures to have friendly respectful staff and improve their service. We were not even offered an apology for making us wait while we were being interrogated for a mistake on the staff’s part.

This is not Dubai standard of...

We tried their iftar menu and were definitely happy with our overall experience. There's valet parking that's easy to locate right at the entrance of Tandoor Tina. Once inside, the interiors were fabulous giving a luxurious vibe that's perfect for special occasions. The staff (khet khet in particular) were very friendly, explained the menu offerings and were prompt to our requests. In terms of food, we started with some dry fruits & nuts, jalab and apricot juice followed by the lentil soup (4/5) & snack thali. The snack thali was massive which included coronation chicken chaat (4/5), turmeric hummus (5/5 - loved this), chicken samosa (5/5), green peas samosa(4/5), tandoori beetroot (5/5), carrot kosambri (4/5), radish cucumber & tomato salad (4/5), butter naan and Arabic bread. In main course lamb biryani (5/5), butter chicken with basmati rice (5/5) & char grilled sea bream fillet (5/5) were all fantastic. Okra salona (4/5) and chargrilled broccoli (5/5) was good too. Last but not the least the dessert platter with nutella naan and coconut ice cream (5/5), umm ali (4/5) and assorted arabic sweets (5/5) was also amazing. Overall the large variety of items, portion sizes and the fusion dishes on the menu make this a great menu. We enjoyed more of the non veg items but there's also good offerings for vegetarians. Excellent spot that we'd definitely...