21 June, 2007

Chillout: First Middle East Ice Cafe Opens In Dubai Today

Dubai Ice Cafe

Chillout ice cafe opens today in Dubai's Times Square Mall. It's the first ice restaurant in the Middle East. Almost everything at the restaurant is sculpted out of ice. Diners will sit on ice benches or chairs, eat at ice tables, out of ice plates, drink from ice glasses served from a bar made of ice.

A Dh9 million (US $2.45 million) investment, the restaurant is Dubai-based Sharaf Group’s enterprise while technical inputs came from Canada-based Iceculture Inc, who are credited with building ice lounges around the world, informed a spokesperson for Sharaf Group.

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12 comments:

hut said...

How original.
Has been done long time ago :
Ice bar, Stockholm

http://www.nordicseahotel.se/omhotellet/matochdryck.asp?MainCatId=41&LangId=2

Anonymous said...

'Cool'! Should check this out sometime.

Anonymous said...

Nick, 11:19

who said its done for the first time in dubai?

i*maginate said...

Great idea, looks pretty cool...

But if the air-conditioning is on, I won't be going! It's already so cold in all the restaurants and malls!

Anonymous said...

those negative people, oh God.

Stained said...

saw it yest from the outside...lots of flashy lights & all...
anyway went to times square mall..it was empty..the staff was more than the crowd..& it was a thurs....damn

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nativeinformant said...

Wasn't the ice hotel featured in a James Bond movie?

Anonymous said...

It is not the first!!!!

Unknown said...

...I am sure to go and check it out.

And its not about being original or not... no concept is ever original its whether you trump the original

Anonymous said...

There is also one in London, and no-one goes. There is some tourist traffic but not a huge amount.

And remember - the places in Stokholm and London are actual 'bars'

Basically - you can't spend more than 30 mins in these places, and why would you want to freeze your butt off to drink a mocktail.

M said...

Nick, Who said it's original?!

So what? it's in stockholm does this mean we shut it down?

No one said it is original but it is to THIS REGION whether you'd like to admit or NOT!

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