The 12 Best Sunday Roasts in Dubai 2026

Reform Social is the canonical Dubai Sunday roast and has been since 2014. The Lakes location is unfashionable in the best way — a low-slung pub-restaurant set in a cul-de-sac of the gated community, with a proper English garden, a lawn for kids, a fireplace that's actually used in January, and a kitchen that has been cooking the same roast for twelve years without losing the plot.

I went on Sunday 16 February 2026 for the seventh time this season. Topside of beef, served pink, two slices the thickness of an iPhone. Yorkshire pudding — the homestyle benchmark in Dubai — tall, eggy, with a properly crispy rim. Roast potatoes that have seen actual goose fat. Honey-roasted parsnips. Cabbage in red wine. A jug of gravy that tastes of pan, not powder.

Goose Island is the closest thing Dubai has to a proper American sports-bar-meets-British-roast crossover, and the Sunday roast is the room's most committed dish. Sirloin sliced thicker than Reform's, with a more aggressive crust, served with a side of horseradish that hasn't been muted into mayonnaise. The Yorkshire is the size of a side plate, dense rather than fluffy — closer to a popover than a true Yorkshire — but the bowl shape catches gravy beautifully.

I sat at table 14 on the terrace on 9 March 2026. The breeze off the marina that day was the entire argument for eating a roast outdoors in March. Service was sharp from start to finish. The bottomless option (AED 295pp with house red, white, and three draughts) is one of the few in Dubai where the wine is drinkable.

This is the most expensive roast on the list and the one with the best Yorkshire pudding I have eaten outside of Yorkshire itself. Individual, fluted, the size of a small soup bowl, hollow enough to fill with gravy. They are baked to order. The beef is a 28-day dry-aged Cape Grim sirloin, carved at the table off a wheeled trolley with a 12-inch carving knife.

I went on the first Sunday after the menu refresh, 1 March 2026. The trolley is theatre — there is no avoiding it. The carving captain Aimal recommended the rump cap over the sirloin and he was right. Cabbage braised in red wine, cauliflower cheese in a proper béchamel, and the gravy is the best in Dubai full stop — it tastes of bone marrow and a long, slow Sunday afternoon.

McGettigan's is the loudest, busiest, most uncomplicatedly fun Sunday roast in Dubai. The room is half pub, half clatter, the live Irish band fires up around 3pm, and the roast is straightforwardly excellent for the price. Topside of beef, Yorkshire, four kinds of potato, gravy that is proper roasting-tin reduction. Bring company who actually want to chat — and shout — over the music.

I went on Sunday 22 March 2026 with a six-top. We took the corner booth by the window. The kitchen sent out a free round of crispy onion rings because we got the timing right. AED 165 per person — and this is honest, generous food.

The Croft is the elder statesman of Marina-area roasts and the place to go if you want a hotel-grade roast without the hotel-grade ceremony. The dining room is bright, the harbour view is honest, and the beef is consistently the most pink-rare of any roast in this list — the kitchen runs the beef under-temperature on purpose and lets you ask for medium-well if you want.

I went on 30 March 2026 with two friends. We took the window two-top facing the boats. The whole table got the beef. The Yorkshires are made fresh every twenty minutes and arrived warm. The wine option (AED 325pp for the beef plus a half-bottle of Pinotage) is one of the best value upgrades in the marina.

The Eloquent Elephant is the most stylish-looking room on this list — dark green walls, brass fittings, an actual library of cocktail books on the back wall. The roast is pub-style executed at five-star hotel temperature. The beef is well-rested, the Yorkshire is taller than it is wide, and the cauliflower cheese has a proper Gruyère crust. The bottomless upgrade at AED 245 is genuinely bottomless — they will keep coming with the wine until you stop them.

The crowd is younger than the other entries on this list. From 4pm the room turns into a quiet bar party.

The Sum Of Us does a Sunday roast that doesn't feel like a Sunday roast — it is served in a third-wave coffee shop with industrial lighting and a community-table seating plan. That sounds wrong on paper and works beautifully on Sunday. The beef is locally sourced from Greenheart Organic Farms, the gravy is a roasted-bone reduction, and the Yorkshire is small and crisp. The whole thing arrives on a single plate, no theatrics.

This is the roast for people who don't want a pub. AED 175 includes the roast and a flat white. The under-30 crowd skews high here — the room is more co-working than community.

Lock, Stock & Barrel is loud, cheap, and reliably solid. The roast at AED 155 is the third-cheapest on this list and is the best pure-value proposition. Beef is honest, Yorkshire is small, gravy is good. The band from 5pm onwards is what makes the room — go in for the roast at 2pm, stay through the band, leave by 7pm.

Skip the Barsha Heights LSB if you can — the JBR branch's roast is the same recipe but with a sea view.

Garden on 8 is the only rooftop Sunday roast in this list, and the rooftop is the entire point. Eighth floor of the Media One Hotel, garden seating under shade canopies, a view of Media City and the Marina towers. The roast itself is solid — beef is well-rested, Yorkshire is properly puffed, gravy is good — but you are mostly buying the view and the breeze.

Best between November and April. Avoid June–September unless you book the indoor section.

The Brass Monkey is the cheapest Sunday roast in Dubai Marina at AED 145, which is what gets it on this list. The beef is thinner than the higher-ranked entries and the Yorkshire is supermarket-spec, but the gravy is honest and the trimmings are correctly seasoned. If you are between paydays in Marina and craving a roast, this is the answer.

The room is small and gets booked out by Saturday afternoon — call ahead.

Q's is the Quincy Jones tribute bar at Palazzo Versace and the Sunday roast is the most theatrical on this list. The room itself looks like the inside of a Bond villain's library — black-and-gold trim, leather banquettes, a baby grand piano. The roast is delivered with three sauces (red wine, horseradish, mustard cream) and a fluted Yorkshire. The beef is Australian wagyu MB6 and the price reflects it.

This is a date roast, an anniversary roast, a "we want it to feel like a Sunday in Mayfair" roast. Not a value roast.

The MAINE Land's Sunday roast is the brasserie-format roast on this list — a starter, a roast, and a dessert at AED 265pp. The beef is fine but not memorable; what makes the MAINE roast worth a visit is the supporting structure. The crab claws to start are excellent. The cheese trolley wheels by at the end. The room itself, with its brass fittings and live piano, is one of the prettier brasserie rooms in town.

This is the roast for a leisurely two-hour Sunday. Don't go if you want the beef to be the star — go if you want a slow afternoon.