Dubai Food Festival 2020 is now on and it’s not just about food! Coffee lovers have a little something to indulge in too. If you are the kind who cannot do without that hot cuppa, then you must head to the DFF right now. This year, DFF gives you a chance to indulge in a Limited Edition Coffee Series, specially created just for the 18-day festival. Anyone up for a hot cuppa?
What’s It?
Until Saturday 14 March, coffee lovers can try a drink concocted by baristas at nine local coffee concept stores, or one of three international franchises. All you need to do is grab a Dubai Food Festival coffee passport, get it stamped at each venue and stand a chance to win AED 1,000 worth of coffee.
Home grown coffee houses and cafes taking part in the coffee festival include Cupagahwa, DOH, Drop Café, 20 Grams Café, Emirati Coffee, Nusantara Coffee Roasters, Qiso Café & Minimart, Andes Café, Spill the Beans and One Degree Café. Other International franchises like Costa Coffee, Café Frei and Boston Lane Café are also part of the fun.
Here’s a quick round-up of where to grab your favorite coffee!
1. Cafe Frei
DIFC-based Cafe Frei serves more than 67 different global coffee varieties. As part of the Dubai Food Festival, the cafe is offering a short-run antioxidant-rich coffee called Superfood Frappe, made using beans sourced from shade-grown plantations.
2. Costa Coffee
High Street favourite Costa Coffee is bringing a Spiced Toffee Cappuccino to its menus at 155 outlets across the UAE. Espresso topped with spiced toffee foam anyone?
3. Boston Lane
Boston Lane in the charming Courtyard, Al Quoz, has concocted a locally inspired beverage, the Ice Rose Crystal Coffee, infused with rose petals and Boston Lane’s signature coffee jelly.
4. Qiso Café
Everything’s organic at Dubai Silicon Oasis outlet Qiso Café, which has gone all out to get guests buzzing. Sample a flight of three different single-origin drinks. After choosing a favourite, you can enjoy a full measure of your chosen brew, alongside tasting notes. And before you leave, try a tempting tiramisu flavoured with your chosen beans.
5. Drop Dubai
Drop Dubai, in Dubai Mall and Jumeirah, is bringing a taste of la dolce vita with its Italian-inspired Cold Brew Spritz, designed to cool and stimulate the senses while people watching at this artisanal, home-grown brews and bites venue.
6. Emirati Coffee
For a sip of truly local flavour, try Emirati Coffee’s Cascara Fizz, a cold drink made from the pulp or skin of the coffee cherry (known as the ‘qishr’). With a Dar Wasl Mall store and an Al Quoz roastery, this outlet is bang on trend, and has been around since the 1930s.
7. DOH
Take a taste of the great outdoors with your specialty coffee from DOH at Last Exit. Sip on the Doh Oreo Latte – a limited edition Oreo cookie-inspired drink, as quirky as the outlet itself.
8. Spill The Beans
Sustainable City’s Spill the Beans’ has a vegan, gluten-free drink- Bounty Brew, for the health conscious. The coffee is made with a cold Colombian brew and coconut milk poured over coconut chocolate truffles, a raw chocolate brownie bite, mocha syrup and coffee-bean infused ice spheres- this one’s pure bliss.
9. Cupagahwa
Cupagahwa, has a cool coffee inspired by local tastes and culture. The Falooda Latte is a creamy milk-based drink with traditional rose-flavoured notes, layered with Cupagahwa’s Italian coffee blend for a modern twist.
10. Storm Cafe
For a quick caffeine fix in one of Dubai’s most quirky dining and retail district, head to the Storm Cafe food truck at Boxpark, Al Wasl Road. Its signature Storm Latte is a specialty blend made from top-of-the-line coffee beans and sporting a distinctive Arabic taste.