For three days each year, Dubai’s gourmets, gourmands and connoisseurs head to Taste of Dubai, a full weekend festival of top-notch restaurant food, tasting sessions, cookery workshops, talks and live entertainment. The annual event attracts some of the city’s trendiest restaurants which curate tasting menus with bite-sized portions of their best dishes for a fraction of the normal menu price.

Expect to learn from some heroes of the culinary world, too – as every year the fair attracts some of the world’s top chefs for demonstrations, workshops and talks. There’s also an entertainment stage with family fun by day and live entertainment by night.