Carnival by Tresind, Dubai

Carnival by Tresind Dubai, is Post-Modernistic Indian food in a carnival setting. It has an air of celebration, funkiness and bringing together of myriad colors reflected by their decor, servers, plating and food. In the Indian context a carnival or a “Mela” is a place where cultures and people from all walks of life meet without boundaries and enjoy. To me, the core philosophy of this restaurant seemed to be: “An attempt to bring under one roof the quintessentially Indian flavours and cuisines from different times and places of this vibrant country – India”
With its food, ambience and service, it surely is one of the best Indian food restaurant in Dubai.

This post covers

1. Cuisine
2. Location and Opening hours
3. Our Order
4. Service
5. Ambience
6. Cost for 4
7. Rating on Food listing apps and sites (like Zomato)

Carnival by Tresind Dubai is the second restaurant in the Tresind Restaurant Umbrella, the first one being Tresind, Dubai. This is one group you can count on to bring different concepts and awesome food together.

• Cuisine: Post-modernistic Indian cuisine. What is really special: how they have brought Indian delicacies from different times and remote parts of India and given it their own twist. This alone can make them the best Indian food restaurant in Dubai.
  They have 4 seasons every year coupled with themes within each season. When we visited them, the theme was colonial India.
• Location, Parking and Opening Hours: DIFC with Valet parking available. Opens for both lunch (12:30 to 3:30) and dinner (7pm to 11:30pm)
• Our Order
  Carnival by Tresind Dubai, brings innovation in not just the food but also its presentation and the jazz they add to the food.
  We tried different dishes between the 6 of us: Tanga Chaat – Served from a stationary “Tanga” (a horse carriage) to either your table or you could eat next to the tanga as the traditional Indian chaat is had. Includes 1 part each of papdi chaat taco, nitro bhel puri – tangy bhel puri, pani puri rasgulla – small rasgulla in a mitti kulhad (an earthen cup) with the sugar syrup of rasgulla replaced with the pani poori water), ghugni chaat.
  Devilled Paneer – Spicy starter with paneer served on almost a bed of red chillies. Not for the faint hearted.
  Sweet potato Focaccia – House bread. very soft and lightly herbed focaccia bread
  Jungle Book – Lotus root kebabs with hazelnut and raisin dressing
  Ram Babu Paranthas – From the gully koochas of Agra, these lipsmacking crispy parathas are served with an equally tasty pumpkin curry, potato curry, yogurt and tamarind chutney
  Gol Hatti – From the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, the special combination of chickpeas and spinach.
  Kadhai Paneer – None of our order is ever complete without paneer especially if our daughter is with us. Her favourite pick at any Indian restaurant is Naan Paneer :). For more recommended restaurants in Dubai, see here. One of my other favorite North Indian restaurant in Dubai is Mint Leaf of London.
  Coming back to Carnival, We had absolutely no place for desert after the sumptuous feast.

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• Service: As exceptional as the food with smiling and considerate servers. They start off the experience with bubbles (yes you got it. the same bubbles that kids like to play with). Setting the tone for the carnival! Tanga chaat was served to us on our table considering the kids and baby. The most exceptional part of all this was the Poloroid camera they used to take a picture of us as a token of memory. To be the best Indian food restaurant in Dubai, this is how they get their brownie points.
• Ambience: All the elements come together to give it a carnival and Indian melange feel. The bubbles in the beginning, musical instruments kept at several places which were used by erstwhile Indian street performers, even the restrooms have these neon motifs of animals. Our 3yr old loved going there to just say Hi to the Monkey and other animals. There is also a cycle with actual chai (Tea) being served, likes of which you can find today also in a lot of Indian cities (most notably Mumbai). As the theme was colonial India, the napkin rings were in the shape of large stone rings and we had our food served and covered by the lookalike of a British crown.
• Cost for 2
  • About AED 400 for 2 people
• Rating on Zomato

  

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