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Eating Out

THE BIG BRUNCH REVIEW

Eating Out

Lazy Lunch at Todd

English’s Olives

A Saturday afternoon feast that will leave
your belly full and heart warm

Dhs190++++ (soft drinks); Dhs290++++ (house beverages);
Dhs390++++ (bubbly). Sat 12.30pm-3.30pm. Venetian
Village, The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal,
Khor Al Maqta (02 404 1941).

runch on a Saturday There’s seating inside
can be a bit daunting and out, and while
with the shadow of a the alfresco area,
Bworking Sunday hanging away from the BRUNCH
over everyone. You can’t throw restaurant itself SPECIAL!
yourself into it with the same and right on
reckless abandon as you the side of Our weekly column
might with a Friday feast and the canal, is bringing you in-depth dishes, and beverage option includes grape,
therefore, is it ever really worth lovely, we opt reviews of Abu Dhabi’s the brunch is mixed drinks and hops.
it? We’re here to tell you that for the dining Friday feasts no different. A top selection of bread,
at Todd English’s Olives, the room, which is Starters include olives and olive tapanades
answer is a big fat “yes”. surprisingly cosy, a tomato bisque, arrive orst (well, olives are in
Billed as a Lazy Lunch, this despite us being the steak salad, carpaccio the restaurant’s name), closely
is a set-menu occasion, where only brunchers that choose and prawn patbread; there’s followed by a small cast-iron
everything is brought to your to sit indoors. a choice of main courses and pot of bisque each. There
table. As such it has the feel The format is simple, and there’s a platter of desserts. are Asian touches to the rich
of a more traditional end-of- explained to us well by the The soft drinks package sauce, and it’s a good start.
the-weekend meal, and not as charming staff. The menu includes excellent mocktails The other starters are
much of a time to overindulge typically focuses on Italian- as well as ice teas, juices and brought out to share, and from
yourself massively. inpuenced Mediterranean ozzy options; while the house them, the prawn patbread
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