A slice of Monaco at Dubai’s Sass Café

It’s not for nothing that Monaco – the tiny principality on the French Riviera – remains a favourite play ground for the world’s rich and famous. Now you can get a slice of all that glitz and glam right here in Dubai at the Sass Café, opened in March at the Al Fattan Currency House in DIFC.

Sass may be well known for serving an ultra chic international clientele in that part of Europe but they don’t seem shy of bringing Monaco’s same cinematic elegance and jet-setter glamour right here in Dubai.

With views of the Burj Khalifa, an open terrace, a piano bar under dazzling chandeliers suspended from a high ceiling and intimate dining spaces blown up by rich red velvet and satin drapery, the Monegasque opulence is almost complete in what is the first Sass venue outside of this roughly two kilometer square city state bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on one side.

Great start

However, it is the food, featuring a luscious South of France-influenced Mediterranean menu, that should draw you to this stunning location. On a pre-Ramadan business lunch (Dh120 per person plus Dh25 for desserts), my photographer Clint and I were made to start with an item each from their list of ‘Les Entrées’. We chose a vegetarian ‘Salade de Lentilles, citrouille and Feta’ and Carpaccio de Bouef à la Sassa.