The Greek restaurant you must try in Dubai

It’s a plateful of Mediterranean summer flavours, served overlooking the beach at Dubai Marina’s new The Beach complex.

The baby squid aren’t the only thing I’d recommend on the menu cooked up for me by sous chef Vlassia Anagnostou and her team, but it’s one that symbolised everything I enjoyed about this restaurant.

Forget the stodgy deep-fried calamari you’ll find in other beachside spots. At Eat Greek, baby squid (Dh40) are packed with tons of green, fragrant herbs, including the ever-so-Greek dill, as well as parsley, mint, oregano and thyme, spinach and beetroot leaves — and grilled to tender perfection, while the stuffing maintains its crispness. With its lemon oil sauce, it’s tangy, bright, fresh and light — just what you want when you’re in a floaty summer dress and sandals pulling off an Aphrodite look by the sea. “Lemon oil is like our magic juice,” says the chef.