Restaurants at a glance
La Farine: Open 24 hours a day, this ‘boulangerie’ features a bakery and coffee counter offering pastries, breads and drinks to go, as well as a casual bistro style menu.
KITCHEN 6: With 350 seats, this is the all-day dining room, offering open kitchens with Asian woks, Middle Eastern grills, European breads and pizzas and Indian tandoors. It is ideal for the big groups booking events and will be the venue for Friday brunch.
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RANG mahal by atul kochhar: Celebrity Michelin star chef Atul Kochhar likes to push the boundaries of Indian Cuisine with a contemporary style at this
167-capacity restauarant.
PRIME 68: On the 68th floor, this steakhouse offers fine dining with a wide choice of quality steaks.
Positano: This Italian restaurant, still to open, promises simple Italian flavours from the Amalfi coastline with friendly and knowledgeable service.
Tong thai: The beautiful Thai restaurant, staffed only by Thai females, will offer familiar Thai street food and authentic dishes rather than Royal
Thai dining.
Izakaya: Designed as a multifaceted outlet combining Japanese noodles, robatayaki and teppanyaki along with sushi, Izakaya is upbeat, casual and slightly edgy, just as its tagline ‘Social Sushi’ suggests.
the vault: Located on the 71st and 72nd floors, this bar targets the “see and be seen” and offers vodka and other premium spirits as well as some of the best views in Dubai.
Velocity: Described as an entertainment lounge rather than a sports bar, this brightly decorated two-storey venue will feature live sports and live DJs.
kork: As the pillows on its sofas suggest, Kork is the hotel’s two-floor wine bar, also offering an open kitchen and tasting room to complement the tapas style menu.
vip room: The international nightclub brand famous for being frequented by A-list stars spas two levels and includes 37 tables and an outdoor terrace.
aqua lounge: Adjacent to the pool, Aqua Lounge offers light fair by day and the perfect destination to relax poolside in the evening.
the lounge: The lobby lounge, housing 1326 multi-coloured bottles on a feature wall, offers zones to enable guests to meet, work or relax.
LEVANT: A Middle Eastern restaurant, with the operator to be confirmed.
Top 10 Technology Highlights
In a hotel seeking to be the next icon for Dubai, the implementation of ultra- modern technology ranks up there with the architecture, design and scale of the building. Hotel manager Bill Keffer says: “Rupprecht and I had the conversation about this very early on.
We wanted this hotel to be as technologically advanced as possible because we were going to be focusing on a corporate group business base that demands good IT infrastructure”.
Highlights include:
1: “Outstanding” wi-fi coverage from anywhere in the building.
2: A good bandwidth which means the internet is quick, with capabilities to pipe in bigger bandwidth for groups.
3: Room management system – controls temperature, lights, calling of maid service etc through a hand held device. In suites, one button can set the bathroom lighting to “spa mood”, creating a soft pink glow. “From the planning stages of the hotel that took a tremendous amount of work to get the programming correct,” recalls Keffer.
4: Integrated Vingcard key system – it’s not new to the market but it has given us a lot of flexibility, says Keffer.
5: “One of the best cctv camera coverage systems probably in the world” — more than 1300 cameras in tower one.
6: From a ballroom perspective, we took care to make sure we have good access points in the floors to avoid cabling and extra wires.
7: Fully integrated LED ballroom — lighting of all of the chandeliers and wall panels, even in the foyer, can be controlled through an iPad with over 1000 different scene variations.
8: The world’s largest LED screen in the ballroom which is 7m by 4m — a “very big hit”.
9: Digitally enabled elevators —“We can run promotional videos in our restaurant elevators. We have different advertising pieces such as LED screens built into the floor of the elevators, which is very interesting,” says Keffer.
10: Even the swimming pool has underwater speakers.
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