- What? Dubai Food Festival 2009 (DFF), part of the Dubai Shopping Festival, and the third year of the event. Buy food, meals, ingredients, watch cooking demonstrations. All in all a splendid sounding festival for the ravenous.
- Where? Uptown Mirdiff
- When? Sunday 01 - Saturday 14 February 2009, evenings. Start times not clear, maybe about 5pm?
- How much? Free admission, free food, free parking says the DFF website. But some stuff still costs money.
- Tickets from where? Maybe Time Out Tickets tel 800-4669? Or just rock up with your empty stomach.
- Organisers?
- Main Sponsors?
- Contact tel? +971-4-600-545555 (Ahlan Dubai), or tel +971-4-2945988 if you want to book a stand (might be too late now?)
- Website? www.dff.ae
- Buffet Tuesdays, 03 & 10 February 2009 from 7pm to 9pm - a selection of 40 dishes for AED 40
- Competitions - they provide the ingredients, chefs (or wannabe chefs) provide the recipie and produce something edible hopefully
- Demonstration Area - big tent with cooking demos and competitions from 6pm and 9pm daily
- Food Market - buy food ingredients to take home. Just like Spinneys
- Friends of the festival - whatever else that might have something to do with eating (the DFF website misogynistically suggests "housewives" belong here
) - Guiness World Record Attempt - largest Dessert Buffet on 13 February 2009 with the attempted creation of 2009 different puddings by the DFF and the Emirates Culinary Guild (ECG). An appropriate acronym given that anyone trying to consume all those desserts might be advised to hop along to the electrocardiogram shop for a test
. - Live Cooking Tents - pizzas, shawarmas
, hamburgers, rice dishes, etc etc - Sampling Sundays, 01 & 08 February 2009 from 5pm to 7pm - food samples
DSF events - a list of what's happening in 2009
Gourmet Abu Dhabi - posh food and cooking (with posh prices) from Michellin chefs
Gulfood exhibition - a trade conference, don't get too excited about it
Taste of Dubai - another food festival in Dubai (but no freebies for this one), in March 2009