Review ‪barracuda Seafood Restaurant‬ - دُبي

مطعم بحري الاكل لذيذ 😋 علي الطريقة الاسكندرانية ام الروبيان 🦞 وروبيان 🦐وقباقيب 🦀وانواع الاسماك هامور والبياح 🐟🐠🦈 الديكور والنظافة جيدة تعامل الموظفين راقي والشوربة البحري يوم الخميس عندهم بوفية بحري مفتوح 110 درهم

عنوان مميز لعشاق الاسماك فهنا يمكن للزائر اختيار ما يرغب بتناوله من الأسماك الطازجة المعروضة بشكل جميل وسيقوم الشيف بتحضير ما اخترته ... والاسعار معقولة والسلطات والعصائر متنوعة وطازجة اتمنى للمطعم وللقائمين عليه دوام التوفيق والازدهار وبكل سرور أمنحهم خمس نجوم . ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A special title for the fish lovers. The visitor can choose what he wants from the freshly presented fish and the chef will prepare your choice ... The prices are reasonable and the salads and juices are varied and fresh. I wish the restaurant and its management succsses and prosperity and I will gladly give them five stars.

🦀Bᴀʀʀᴀᴄᴜᴅᴀ Rᴇsᴛ- مطعم باراكودا🦀 It’s a Mediterranean Seafood restaurant from Alexandria. They are serving seafood buffet with delicious spread. I really like the ambiance as it’s all about seafood theme. All the food was fresh out pf the ocean. The buffet timings is on Thursday from 6 - 10 pm. A must try buffet 🦑 إنه مطعم مأكولات البحر الأبيض المتوسط من الإسكندرية. إنهم يقدمون بوفيه المأكولات البحرية مع انتشار لذيذ. أنا حقا أحب الأجواء لأنها تدور حول موضوع المأكولات البحرية. كل الطعام كان طازجًا من المحيط. مواعيد البوفيه يوم الخميس من الساعة 6 - 10 مساءً.

الأكل لذيذ والخدمة حلوة والأسعار غالية شوي.

صراحة مطعم بحري بامتياز اسماك وجمبري واستاكوزا وخاصة سنجاري وخبز المصري الحب المميز الطازج والمقبلات المتنوعة الرائعة باشراف الاستاذ مدحت وباقي فريق العاملين شكرا ولنا لقاء قريب باذن الله

من أفضل وأجود مطاعم السمك في دبي عيبه الوحيد ريحة القلي معبيه المكان ياليت يحلون هالمشكلة

المطعم جميل تابع لمطعم حدوته مصرية. سلطة جرجير من أروع وأجمل السلطات مذاقا.

مطعم مأكولات بحرية يعتبر رقم واحد في دبي من ناحية جودة الأسماك و طريقة إعدادها على الطريقة المصرية جو المطعم رائع و الضيافة خمس نجوم و المعاملة جد جد رائعة شكرا للقائمين على مطعم براكودا و شكرا لصاحبه أتمنى لكم الإستمرار و الإزدهار

One of my fav spots serving Egyptian style seafood in Dubai <br/>It’s not a fancy place it’s just about the food <br/>Sea food lovers will be delighted with the choices and the freshness of the fish. <br/>I really recommend the grilled prawns!

Singari fish is my favorite as I’m fan of fish doesn’t matter which cuisine ( Egyptian, Indian, Turkish ....etc ) the most important for me is the taste and to be honest I find only on Egyptian fish resturant I give 4 coz they reduce the dish quantity not as before .<br/><br/>

This restaurant is a Dubai gem! It's one of my all time favorites in town. I always head there after a day at the beach, pick the fish and have the chef cook it to perfection! We ordered the radda which is grilled fish, fish and potato cooked in the oven with lemon oil sauce, and shrimp with cream sauce... just exquisite. Also, their clams with parsley lemon & garlic are a must try.<br/><br/>#fishindubai #seafoodindubai #foodindubai #himi_eats

Well hi everyone <br/>Never say wrong to the Food <br/>Say always Thanks God <br/>I heard a lot about Barracuda but hearing something and being there by yourself is different experience,<br/>The food was not that tasty what I was thinking <br/>And service was very poor <br/>The staff was not happy working there so how they will serve you with a cute smile <br/>

I never leave negative reviews. But I think this restaurant deserved one. First, the food wasn't any good. We ordered grilled sea bream and squid, but no way this sea bream was char coal grilled. It was bland, watery, and pretty much tasteless. And the squid tasted like a rubber. Second, the waiter came and offered "complimentary" (or so we thought) selection of souses and snacks. The bread was free so we thought these small dishes were free too. Nope, they were not free. But the waiter conveniently forgotten to mention that before offering the dishes. One may say thay we should have asked and not assumed, but then it is not uncommon practice to offer such dishes for free. In any case, it was not delicious at all. Cannot blame stuff as maybe it's company's policy.

It’s a heaven for seafood lovers.They have multiple options for sea food . You get to choose the fish you wAnt , get it weighed and ask how you want it done .we tried Singary red snapper and highly recommended 👍ordered rice with it and prawn 🦐🍤. Prawns were amazing . Overall staff was great 👍 and food was amazing . Really enjoyed . The only suggestion is they need to add on dessert 🍮🍨 section as had to go somewhere else for desserts . Follow on Instagram @ dxbfooodie

Been to Barracuda yesterday with friends for late lunch and what a treat it was. You get to choose from the fresh catches of the day. Fish, King Prawns, Crabs, Clams, Lobsters. It's a heaven for seafood lovers. We tried all different varieties in Fish, Clams and Prawns. What a treat. They cook it the way you want, even suggest how can it be made better. All dishes either baked, steamed or grilled. With mild flavors of additional spices like garlic, onion L, parsley etc, it came out really well. Delicately done, subtly flavored and good quantity. Highly recommended for seafood lovers. I would like them to add some good drinks (non-alchoholic of course) to down with these delicious dishes.

where do you get the best seafood in Dubai ? well my answer will definitely be Barracuda<br/>this restaurant doesnt boast fancy interiors but their food is really great <br/>we ordered Grilled Sheri as we have a taste for spicy stuff we told the waitress to make it spicy and she came back with really good looking steamed mussels which she told was complimentary.. each sides will cost 15 dirhams, we ordered hummus,mutabbal and a dish with tomato which really tasted good<br/><br/>total came to around 220 dirhams for 3 <br/><br/>Dish ordered:Grilled Sheri (spicy) , 3 sides<br/>

Highly recommended <br/>One of the best Egyptian seafood restaurants in Dubai...high quality of food, taste, freshness and perfectly clean environment.<br/><br/>Barracuda Restaurant 🇪🇬<br/><br/>سمك بشياكة 😎 و نظافة و الطعم جميل جدااا و خدمتهم محترمة، منظمة و محترفة 👌<br/><br/>طلبنا طبق كاليماري، جمبري بترفلاي، فيليه مشوي، هامور سنجاري، رز وسلطة جرجير كله كما قال الكتاب 😁 المقبلات بيجيبوها بترولي وانت تختار😉<br/><br/>الاسعار عالية شوي بس الغالي سعره فيه 👍<br/><br/>العنوان: جميرا ٣ وفي فرع في دبي مارينا نحنا جربنا فرع جميرا.<br/>

If you are fond of eating seafood . And you know the exact taste of all items then don't go there. Even the place is nice but food and taste is average . They are not serving the fresh and hot bread . They are serving their food with reheated and reprocessed bread. Their fish was also having bad smell . I make it complain but no body bothered . So if mistakenly go there will results in spoiled mood.

We went first time yesterday. We ordered fish fillet tagin, shrimp tajin, grilled hammour fillet with brown rice. The meal arrived after 20mins<br/>The shrimp tasted old and was smelly. The grilled hammour also was not fresh. The lemon they put for the grilled hammour was old and dried. The brown rice felt like it was not fresh and heated upon microwave. We were very disappointed. We complained to the attending charge person of the restaurant. <br/>The plates glasses were all old and with scratches.<br/>I don't think we will go there again. They need to change their kitchen staff and utensils.

Why go there:<br/>Egyptian Singary style sea food <br/><br/>We were two and hungry. Ordered one Singary Grilled Sea Bass and Singary Oven-baked Prawns (8 pieces). And we didn't touch the bread nor any other starters on purpose. We went to enjoy just the sea food. And that is exactly what we did. <br/>Fish was delicious, grilled just right and spices were perfect. Prawns were also fresh and baked to perfection. No complaints whatsoever. Our ordered quantity was just right for two. <br/>We got parking right in front of the restaurant. Servers were polite and attentive. We found a table outdoors quite easily. Food was served in less than 15 minutes. <br/><br/>Thanks to Nadine for the recommendation. <br/>

Barracuda serves fresh seafood prepared as per your liking. They have a lot of preparation styles . <br/>We tried the following : <br/>1. Sea Bream Fried <br/>2. Spicy grilled prawns <br/>3. Hammour Singary <br/>4. Sea bream in Lemon & Oil . <br/>Their menu has a detailed description of each of the cooking styles . You can choose the style of cooking accordingly . <br/>They also have a wide variety of mezzes to choose from - we had the hummous, tahini paste , garlic sauce and also ordered a tabbouleh. <br/>A spicy foodie may find the preparation to be a little bland as they use minimal spices and just stick to the basic seasonings like salt , lemon and oil which is their style of cooking . But they do give additional sauces with it. Or a sprinkle of lemon also does wonders . <br/>A good sea food experience.

This is the most bad experience i had in my life i know the resturant before it was fine but i came today with very bad taste and imagine the part of the fish was raw not yet cooked when you we complain the manager deal with us unprofessional . We know will open case in dubai government

I know the service and ambience is not the main thing when we talk about restaurants and that's why I'm giving to this place rate 3.5 for their fish dishes only!<br/><br/>Service is so so, waiters are bit slow and keep forgetting things.<br/>Soups are just fine, mezzas not bad and I wish they serve fresh bread and not warmed up one.<br/><br/>Interior is just awful. They could do some renovations <br/>

Do you want to feel like at home when going for your weekend lunch with family and friends? Barracuda is the place.<br/>You can choose your fresh fish, cooked in many different ways, I highly recommend "Singary" and enjoy with a proper rice seafood. We've been there several times, and despite other restaurants in Dubai, everytime we go, quality remains the same.<br/>Service is good (it could be better...), never takes too long to get the food and they bring you good bread and a selection of tasty starters, always go for tomateos (please, don't go cheap with tomatoes!)<br/>Weak point, they don't have dessert menu or coffee. We have being delighted with good watermelon, when is available, because here watermelon juice is real fresh, not like other fancy places around the city.

I just ate at the Marina branch and one of the fish was not fresh and the molkhia was really bad, and when I complained about the fish the manager was very sarcastic and aggressive saying, " what do you know about fish.... well I don't but I can taste bad fish " even his friend came along to join the argument!! I feel sorry for the owners.... use to like this place now I will never go back again, just be careful when you eat there guys, check all the fish before you buy it. Our bill was over Dhs 470 and still they talked down to us and ruined my whole day... pathetic service

If it was only about food I would rate 5/5 <br/>But the service is terrible... waiters are completely lost, no coordination, no attention on customers and please do not sort the cutlery in the main room! It's too annoying!<br/><br/>On another note, shrimps are amazing.

Being an Egyptian born and raised by the beach, seafood is an important aspect of our diet and we have it at least once a week.<br/>Barracuda is owned by an Egyptian family coming from my city, Alexandria and prepare seafood the Alexandrian way.<br/>We ordered for salads the herring fish salad, eggplant with garlic and vinegar, potato salad, marinated tomatoes, tahina, beetroot and minced calamari with onions and tomato. A typical Alexandrian entree which was excellent.<br/>We then order a Sea Bream cooked the Singary way which is a traditional method where the fish is opened, deboned and oven grilled with a speciality seasoning. <br/>We also ordered a sea bass baked with potatoes and shrimps butterfly which are cooked similar to the singary fish. Everything was delicious and tasted just like home ❤️<br/>Ambiance: 4/5<br/>Service: 4/5<br/>Food: 5/5<br/>Value for money: 5/5<br/>Follow me on Instagram @nihalfindsfood

Hit and miss kind of food experience. Grilled crab was out right bad - not cooked bad but the meat was bad and I had to wash my hands to get rid of smell. Obviously the rest of the food experience didn't go down well. Fish was heavily garnished but prawns were heavenly. The only reason I rated this establishment a 3.0 was because of the prawns but they were not good enough to warrant another trip

Happened to pass by this Barracuda restaurant, the sea food they served are fresh which is amazing, you can select what you like and how u like it to be cook.<br/><br/>Outside dinning is awesome only if the weather is nice. <br/>The staff are friendly and nice too, they can speak English and can communicate will.

The quality of food is good. I like the fried fish one of best I tried. Other dishes are also good using fresh fish. Staff are friendly but need to reach customers faster.   Cleanliness is good, even WC which I usually rate restaurants according to it's cleanliness. Little bit pricey but considering location in Jumeirah is expected. Seafood soup was a failure.

Freshly made sea food. A wide variety to choose from. A la carte menu. Waiters are friendly and helpful. Close by to the beach. The outside sitting area could do with some regular cleaning. The restaurant could do with a re-vamp!

Something Unique in cooking style.<br/>If you want experience a different method cooking ,this is one place .some old classic methods of cooking. But you have to look for it or else the normal grilled,fried etc also available. Little congested seating but good service. need more light in restaurant.

Excellent fish, decent selection, higher range of prices. Sadly absolute poor service. It's a miracle this restaurant is surviving in jumeirah with this service attitude. Clean facilities, however the indoor seating area reeks of fish.

Really nice simple sea fresh food restaurant. Don't pay attention to the set up which is not the most trendy in town. Get in, choose your fish and enjoy.

Decent seafood restaurant in Jumeirah. Food is good and can be prepared to your liking. Bit pricey for its location, however the food is pretty good. Open till mid-night.

Went for dinner, ordered the sea bass with potatoes, sigary shrimp and the grilled calamari. Although the quality of seafood was very, very good, we felt it lacked in flavour. I only wish the food had more spice. If you like simple flavours, this is for you. If not, head elsewhere. Service was good and staff was polite.

The weather was amazing so we chose to sit outside. The staff was very polite and friendly. Barracuda has amazing seafood and salads! I'm a very big fan of salads and this was definitely something special.

I am not a big fan of seafood in general but i can say that this restaurant is one of the best seafood restaurants in dubai. I recommend the sengari shrimps and the fish with potatoes a must have. The lobster with cheese was good. The only reason i gave them a 4.5 was that the service was a bit slow.<br/>Overall rating:<br/>Ambiance: 4/5<br/>Service: 4/5<br/>Food: 5/5

One of our best place for my family, used to bring our gests to that branch specially my mom as well, my sister like that restaurant 5* food quality !!!!

My husband and myself came to this branch after hearing that it's supposed to be good, but I cannot say the same from our experience. The service at the jumeirah branch was not even polite enough to check with us once we arrived. When taking order the waitress did not even have the patience or show the interest of explaining the favorites of the place. In short, definitely not worth wasting money on.

Nice fast food to get while coming back home , tried it once and it was good <br/>

We love coming here! A simple restaurant serving delicious fish and seafood. I came several times with friends, and it was always fresh. The bonus is that it is reasonably priced!<br/>

Food is quite expensive compared to the quality of food they serve... They should think on pricing down their food and meeting up its customers satisfaction as it reflects its food pricing. With regards to the food.. Not catchy at all. Poor presentation and poor customer assistance. Ambience is quite cozy.. Fair.

Superb food. Should try out their Denise Singaary and Sayadiya rice. Go to the fish display, choose your fish, get it weighed, choose the way you want it and lo! Muah! Love it!

@thanks a lot for all barracuda friends we keep our staffers at your request <br/>We already have a new plates delicious and tasty don't miss to order

A little pricy for average food. Good variety of dishes, food is ok but not outstanding. Service was a little slow and inattentive.<br/><br/>The room decoration is nice with pictures of Egypt on the wall; nice display of fresh fish to choose from. The place is quite small and stuffed with tables of which only five were taken by guests on a Friday early evening; however, the place felt already noisy with kids running around. <br/><br/>I haven't visited the bathroom, but the narrow hand-washing area could be much cleaner.<br/><br/>Visited once after recommendation by a friend, but will not return so soon.

A MEHSTAURANT is what Barracuda is, the culinary equivalent of a shrug of the shoulders, for despite all its formidable potential, the place refuses to excel. Its best features are the fish display, whose ordinary offerings will keep still your beating heart, and its wonderful menu, which emphasizes the lesser known but glorious Mediterranean kitchen traditions of Alexandria, Egypt. You would think this idea is a surefire recipe for success. But Barracuda smothers any fires of enthusiasm that might warm you with the soggy wet blanket of its mediocre service and its awkward, uncomfortable seating arrangements. <br/><br/>Perhaps it was just my luck, but on each and every of the four occasions when I visited there savage, ill-bred children were scampering around the tables throughout the restaurant. To reach the clean and well-kept bathrooms, you are forced to navigate among strollers of crying babies. This mise-en-scream continues even after nine pm, as management lays marinating, in its own torpor.  It seems they could not care less (by the way, they could not care less. ) The restaurant starts to stink from the head down. <br/><br/>As in Egypt, a cart full of mezze—assorted appetizers—is wheeled by your table and you select items to share. There are lovely choices---a spectacular vinegar-marinated eggplant dish with tomatoes, flecked with a hint of red pepper; a lively green puree of fava beans (ful) and the tabbouleh all are outstanding (the hummus is not). The problem here is the stale air of indifference wafting over from the waitresses towards you and the dishes . A Dim Some crew these trolley-pushers are indeed!  Buzzkillers, actually, sucking the joy right out  of enjoyment. It seems these tired folks and their fake smiles would be just as happy to keep the trolley moving past you, non-stop. You are made to feel more welcome, with more attentive service, flying economy on Aeroflot.<br/><br/>One of the reasons we go to restaurants is to experience, even in diluted fashion, a part of a foreign place; to join, even temporarily, a foreign fellowship of food.   You can glimpse it here in Singaray fish cooking—a specialty of Alexandrian fishermen—in which a whole fish is butterflied, grilled and served bonelessly with its distinctive perfume of parsley, spices and olive oil. In fact, the restaurant will prepare the fish any way you like it, and they are very good at it. Alas, this is not the freshest fish I’ve had in Dubai, and certainly not as fresh as the fish in the nearby Seaview Restaurant (see my review below), but it is not bad. The rice dishes, sayyadiya, are very good value for money, but you’ve had better elsewhere. Everything about the cuisine is "almost" and nothing reaches the level of excellence. <br/><br/>The seating? The spawn of a school bus that exhausted itself swimming up-Nile to mate with a Cairene Formica-surplus store. The décor? Ersatz Egyptian schlock. The owner? Absent each time I inquired during my visits.  When was the last time s/he saw the restaurant in operation? Let me guess.. about the time there arose in Egypt a new Pharaoh who knew not Joseph...<br/><br/>Sigmund Freud famously observed that the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. It submerges everything here like the wafaa el-Nil. Mostly what remains of the love that once probably animated Barracuda are hieroglyphs: in pictures of Alexandria on the wall, in certain menu offerings, in the idea of a fish market where you eat, and a very good kitchen --but that's history now. The restaurant's prices are mid-level, but high for what you receive. By these lights, Seaview is the vastly superior option. <br/><br/>Baracuda is neither bad nor good, just meh. As in mehstaurant.

Nope. Disappointed. Seafood soup was gray, with one single shrimp that was already spoiled and I had to spit it out. Squid was worn out and mushy from all the boiling and re-heating. <br/>Soup wasn't fresh or even made today. It's at least 2 days old. <br/>Ordered shrimp rice and it had absolutely no taste what so ever. It was dry with only 4 shrimps 3 of them smelled funny and needless to say it was not freshly made. I had to return it. <br/>The only fresh thing was the fried shrimp I ordered it was nicely seasoned but the batter was too much thick and heavy it kind of hid the original flavor of the shrimp itself. <br/>Service was polite but place is very small. It had photos of Alexandria my home town which was a nice gesture. <br/>I left the shop unhappy and not full I had to get take out from moylos next to it. <br/>I cannot say I will come back. No I'm not. <br/>

Barracuda is a perfect spot for the late weekend lunch after the beach day. It's a beach restaurant on the side of the road and you don't expect service of 5 star hotel, but fresh fish and seafood. Menu has colorful images of the food, prices are quite cheap, mezze selection on the trolley comes first with the waiter. Don't miss seafood soup, grilled red snapper or fried lady fingers. The owner of the restaurant is often there, he recognizes you if you coming back and always welcomes you with a small talk and treats like coffee/watermelon on the house, which gives a great personal touch

Chose outside sitting as it was sometimes back in the winter. Pricey but food is so so. Service is slow and waited too long for my fish and soup. No parking is a no for me to come back.

The best fish & shrimp in mix ever and nice place but wash room is too small and not that much clean , think they must look in to it ,<br/>I advise you guys to order :<br/>Shrimps in tomato sauce <br/>Fish in tomato sauce <br/>Rise with shrimps<br/>Enjoy !!

Another disaster place.. They have everthing hoing for them -good location , good name ..(ok so could get killed or run over trying to park and get outta ya car) wish I could same the same about the soggy ,boring grilled fish.. First and last time.. No regrets!!

Today I had the most amazing meal! Seafood! Love it! But I'm very picky about how it's made. Barracuda restaurant is the right place to have great seafood. I tried the Soul Fish and Singari King Shrimps. I was eating with such a delight, that a guy sitting at next table couldn't wait to get his food and digged in the moment it landed on his table. Oh, I could see he was enjoying.<br/>It was like an obsession. Every piece of the fish tickled my taste buds and melted in my mouth. The shrimps are cooked with the restaurant's special herbs blend, and served with Tartar sauce which make the taste even reacher. And their starters! The selection of cold dishes is brought to you on a rolling table, so you don't have to guess what kind of dish is hiding behind the dish name. I am, the eggplant lover, chose both, grilled eggplant with fresh tomato sauce and eggplant paste. I finished it all!<br/>But what makes the place even more special, is that the owner, Mr. Medhat is always around, personally greeting the customers, making them feel at home. He is the one who made the meal choices for me. I did not regret a moment! Clearly, this is my favorite restaurant in Dubai!

Seafood is quite delish, the mix or seafood and Egyptian fusion made the food taste yum! Ambience was a bit quite and staff weren't as attentive but overall def a good seafood experience! If your a crab lover then try the grilled crabs :-) but make sure you have space to try all the other dishes..

I would always rate Barracuda as a BIG HIGH FIVE, it's the best Seafood Restaurant I have ever been to. ? The Fish cooked with potatoes is just my favorite, Clays (kandofli)'s sause is just delicious and I wonder never miss ordering the Brown Rice ?. The stuff are always friendly and they would always remember me as a person who comes all the way from Abu Dhabi to eat over there Alexanderian Resturant. #Yum #myDubai #seafood #alexanderia #egyptian_cusine

The food was great and the staff was very friendly, tried some dishes from the menu then asked if we can get something cooked in a specific way and staff agreed and it actually turned out great , the menu has a wide variety and the presentation is really good .. Recommended

Food was good, fresh fish , the lobster that i was looking forward to was very dry and over cooked ! We had to wait around 30 minutes for the food ! But the appetizers were good enough to shut us up

This is a spot for the fish lovers... Pick 'n' Mix of the freshest fish around. Atmosphere in the restaurant is dull but the tasty food triumphs it.

This is the original Barracuda restaurant in Dubai, located on Jumeirah beach road, it's a favorite spot for a seafood lunch after a day spent swimming and soaking the sun on the nearby kite surfer's beach. The menu looks confusing with a lot of fish options with different cooking options too, my advice is to choose the fish from the fresh fish stand and have it barbecued or done in the Egyptian "Singari" way. <br/>The food is really good and deserves the wait on crowded weekends. The starters and snacks are great with a lot of things to try. And finally the value for money is very good too.

After different recommendations from people I know and based on the comments from Zomato, a friend and I decided to visit Barracuda today. <br/><br/>The first impression when entering the restaurant was, by far, not the best you would expect from a fish restaurant. Not-fresh fish smell covering the whole place. <br/><br/>After ordering a salad (eggplant with garlic and parsley), two crabs and rice, I must say that the best dish was the salad. <br/><br/>Really do not understand how this place scores a 4. Fish is definitely not an asset.

Barracuda never disapoints. Food is great, even though I have to agree with some of the reviews that sometimes it doesn't feel all that fresh - but again, this is Dubai. It also never seemed unfresh or spoiled, and always tasted great, so fine by me!<br/><br/>I don't fancy the sauce they put on the clams, but that's my personal european taste. Other than that, prawns are amazing, fish is always good, and tabouleh and lemon mint are awesome.<br/><br/>Overall experience as always been positive, and even though lately staff seems to be lagging behind, it was never bad service.

Decor and ambience amazing. Lovely sit out area. Fresh seafood. So much to choose from. <br/>Great food. Loved the starters that come with it. Great place. Must check out.

Probably the best seafood I have ever had. Try your favourite fish Sinjary style. Order a side of mixed seafood rice and some clams and a garlic tomato salad.<br/>You won't be disappointed

I love the clams and seafood platter! I don't usually like Arab cuisine at all but I would go to this restaurant for seafood and would bring my visitors there. Price is cheap and reasonable. Seafood is fresh and you can pick your own seafood from the ice if you wish.

The restaurant is good place to eat sea food. The taste is good but requires real variety of sea food dishes. Unable to find Big Crabs clamps

Excellent fresh fish, friendly staff and fast service! Must try grilled lobster and seafood soup. Highly recommended and definitely come back. Thank you

I had the best meal ever with friends.. seafood soup was delicious.. singary aroos fish and grilled shrimps were perfectly cooked and marinated.. the salads tasts wonderful. The price was a little expensive but the food and service worth the money.

The most original egyptian style fish I have ever had in Dubai. Friendly staff. Menu has alot of realistic photos.<br/>Cooking could take long because… you know, they are preparing your fish carefully ;)<br/>Prices are high but in return you get to pick your own fresh fish!<br/>Calamari was not that good though..

That was the worst experience ever! First we had to wait a looooong time for a waiter to get us a menu. There was a noisy group of people next table and they made the next half an hour unbearable for the rest clients. A guy next to us got a headache and left with the bad mood. Then it was waiting-and-waiting-and-... for our main order to come. At the end we got small (absolutely not fresh) overcooked rubber shrimps and a dry fish (sea bream) with a very weird sauce on the top of it. The food and the impression left a bad aftertaste and that's the worst "fish" restaurant we have ever been to.

Took my mom to try the new seafood restaurant as she was craving fish. Our wait was very polite took our order which consisted of hummous and greek salad and then for main grilled lemon and oil seab bass with egyptian style rice and shrimps. Hummous and salad were delicous! We then waited 45minutes for our mains to arrive while new customers that arrived 20 minutes after us, receieved their mains! Very dissappointed at the service because the fooood is absolutely delicious.

Very slow , and the food was not good at all , don't recommend it

Something has happened during the summer 2014: Prices increased by, at least, 50%. I have been having dinner often here. I liked it for the casual atmosphere, the good food, and the good value for money. It was a good destination, with my family or friends. While the food remains good, the increased prices move it closer to many other restaurants, taking away the edge against the competition. I guess will visited much less often in the future. It is a shame...

Restaurant is located far away from tourist walks, but is worth taking taxi or driving if you are from here. Not a big place, with average interior and service but food....Food is brilliant, amazing, fresh and tasty. We had clams which were one of the most delicious I ever had. Singary sea bass, which was stunning! Rice with shrimps was ok. If you are searching for fresh arabic seafood, this is the place! Great money value.

When I think of seafood I can't think of any better place. Absolutely healthy, fresh and delicious. Their butter garlic grilled tiger prawns and the sea-bass fish with tomatoes and onion grill is my favourite. I love their salads. The service is amazing and the staff are extremely friendly.

Excellent food at service ! My compliments to the owner :)

Great place to eat if you love your fresh seafood. Was happy with everything except the prawns in my seafood pasta which tasted a bit bland.

We went to Barracuda with a hope to enjoy a seafood. In their menu you can see a lot of choices. We decided to order fried hummur, prawn tajine, hommus, tabouleh and fish and chips for our daugter. Fried fish was ok but serving wad terrible. Only fish and plate, no decoration at all. Prawn tajine was ok but shrimps were not well cooked. Was more like a chewing gum. General taste was ok. Hommus was tasty, tabouleh too but sumak was missing :( general taste was like 3+ in a 1-5 scale. Service horrible! I dont know who is the waiter, who is manager or who is cook. The girls (waitresses I guess) were all the time in the kitchen, nobody is interested that everything is ok or guest needs something and restaurant is quite small so it's easy to manage. Generally was ok but its more like a restaurant for daily dine-out then for special dinner. Do not invite your second half for romantic dinner to Barracuda :) prices are ok. We pay 305 AED.

Barracuda is an attempt to reproduce a fish market... or even an attempt to reproduce a Mediterranean restaurant where fish is on display on an small boat reproduction. These restaurants are normally next to the beach, and they show you what is suppose to be the catch of the day. <br/>Now... this is Dubai and we all know this is not the catch of the day, and we are in the middle of Jumierah Road, aside of that I tried the prawns, and were reasonable, this is not an small place... with a reasonable selection of fish. I was not transported to the Mediterranean shores... or even smell the grilled fish while entering... but ... if you are looking for fish nicely cooked, this is a good choice, with a bit of a tricky parking, once again and always on the road, it will cost you a couple of tries before you spot the place and park.<br/>Once inside the routine is easy... reach the small boat at the end pick and choose, and eat the fish....

As a family of 4 for our Friday lunch, we went to Barracuda for the first time. The weather was pretty nice so we decided to sit outdoor. <br/><br/>In terms of ordering, we all found it pretty overwhelming by just glancing at the menu. It seemed that every page had a different way of cooking the fish and if you're not familiar with too many types of fish (which my sister and I weren't), you weren't really sure what to choose. So the waiter recommended the best way was to take us inside to the display of fish and explain them to us along with the different preparations they offer. This now made more sense.<br/><br/>So on to the food, for starters we ordered:<br/>- Fattouch (alright, more greasy than tasty)<br/>- Hommus (I'm a huge fan of hommus and this was more on the tahina side so it was alright)<br/>- Eggplant with garlic & vinegar (good)<br/><br/>For mains, we ordered:<br/>- Butterfly jumbo prawns 'Singary style' (This was tasty but the prawns were overcooked)<br/>- Sherry fish 'Singary style' (This was the highlight of our meal. Super fresh, tender and flavorful. If we go back I would have this only)<br/>- Sayyadiya rice (DO NOT order this! I don't mean to shout but this tasted very old and off)<br/><br/>I'd go back and try our their other white fish but they need to clean up their act with the starters and especially their rice.<br/><br/>Check out my foodie blog: www.feedmytastebuds.blogspot.ae<br/>Instagram.com/feedmytastebuds<br/>Twitter.com/feedmytastebuds

Our experience at Barracuda last weekend was very disappointing. For not being Europeans, we did not get the same attention as the other customers did and because our order was smaller, it was treated as a lower priority.<br/><br/>The prawns in the Tagine we ordered were over cooked and very low quality; the rice grease and tasteless or I better say, everything had the same taste.<br/><br/>In a good restaurant, every order shoul be treated as if it were the most expensive item in the menu. Same with a customer, even if a person is not ordering a big meal , if satisfied, he will come back.<br/><br/>Not worth the price.

Food is super tasty. Don't care about anything else. One of the best seafood places in Dubai

No blankets. I came during the winter of dubai... its cold to sit outside... waiters were not so welcoming... food is ok to good.

I have been to Barracuda a few times and the first time I was there I looooved it, then the second and third time I was not that impressed as the first time. There is no uniformity on the taste, I guess the taste depends on the Chief's daily mood. <br/><br/>I have never regretted taking my fish lover visitor friend to this restaurant yesterday. As always we had our starter from the trolley pushed around the restaurant, so we waited, waited, waited and our order didn't come.... I don't know why we were that patient, then after about 50mts a waiter came and said what is your order? then we said, how do u ask such question as we've been seating here for almost an hour.... then in a broken English he said "food burn inside the kitchen sorry, again order?" , it was sooo disappointing we didn't even said a single word , we just got up and left... I never recommend this awful place, service is poor, especially if you have some important people to show around!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There seems to be a plethora of specialist food writer reviews of Barracuda. Almost seems like the management has been on a PR prowl. Or the reviewers want to be on the Man Booker shortlist.<br/><br/>But here's my bit... We live close by, and we love the fish at Barracuda. And we tell friends, and they like it. And they tell friends. That the fish at Barracuda on Beach Road is good. Great, actually.<br/><br/>Like most fish places in Dubai, the fresh fish is displayed, you choose the fish, you get it weighed, and you tell them how you would like it cooked. We had the snapper and the pomfret and these were fresh, in lemon and oil and served sizzling. On separate occasions we have tried the rada and the rice singary cooked hammour. All good. I am not huge on fish, so, for me to like fish, it really has to be non-fishy. I know it sounds funny, but the fish at Barracuda doesn't taste that fishy. Just tastes good.<br/><br/>At Barracuda, the service is good, there's outside on Beach Road seating (Thursday nights are great for watching the Ferraris race the Lambos), but to top it all – the food, specially the fish is really rather good.

Had heard about the place so we went to try it. Not impressed... We had a few starters that were ok, the fish took soooooooo long to come, it was tasty but the marinade kind of killed the taste of the fish... Service was ok. We wouldn't go back...

Been here twice so far and love the fish. From the list of sides I've tried the fattoush (okay but they pour on the super greasy, fried bread which makes it unbearable so you have to waste a lot of time removing it), spicy tomatoes in a green sauce (not great but bearable), baba ghanooj (not good), tahini (typical) and mashed potatoes (LOVE THEM with the crispy bread)! I've tried the shrimp soup and the seafood soup. The cream based soup is disgusting, the regular base soup is okay. Now, as for the fish, stick to the safe choices of red snapper and hammour, zangari style (butterflied with olive oil and tomatoes). We tried a local fish, I can't remember which one but it was an egyptian favorite, and we had done stuffed (or sliced from the top and stuffed with spices) and the fish was too fishy. <br/><br/>But all in all, the seafood is great. Order it with a little less olive oil because they're over-generous with the oil and it can seem a bit overwhelming.

(from the blog: http://thehedonista.com/fishy-fishy-barracuda-and-other-market-restaurants/)<br/><br/>...At the back, are a crew of eager orderers. They are checking the daily catch. The noise back there is like at a market stall - all languages are spoken, tumbling ice, slapping fish flesh, clattering steel plates on age-browned scales, there's even a little jostling and raised voices. I take my lead from them and attend the fray.<br/><br/>Bouri (also known as biah, wagena or grey mullet) feature prominently - they're the cheapest, and popular, with their firm white flesh and fat little bodies. Their faces are shaped like the end of a shoe, with sad cloudy eyes falling off the sides of them - they're not for me. There's plump spotted hamour (orange spotted grouper), the tastiest and most tragically overfished. They'll be popular, but they're large, and not cheap - family celebrations will fit the bill. The two-bar sea bream (faskar) with golden wings are the sustainable choice, and taste much like my favourite fish but they're a little on the small side today. So I'll go with my old favourite, the snapper (hamra) - shiny, clear-eyed, and large enough for four. Next time I'll try the pink-eared emperor - they were just a little too large. Then there's some squeaky clean local sole or Samak Moussa, glaring at me cockeyed like a Picasso portrait. Yes, funny lady, with your sweet tender flesh, you're mine. There's Omani lobster, shiny, coloured and coated like an enamel broach, delicate manna crabs, blue-fingered and painted with shadows of sunlight through seaweed. And prawns of course - both monstrous and middling.<br/><br/>barracuda-fishmongerMy fishmonger smiles and nods - he approves my choice. They're weighed and slapped onto a plate with no apparent marking, which is taken to the kitchen tout suite. With the cacophony that surrounds, I'm not sure I'll ever see them again. I order rice, a prawn tagine and some cuttlefish to go with, and return to my seat.<br/><br/>The family are already well entrenched. They've attacked the trolly dolly, a lady with salads, sides and starters, who is walking around yum-cha style. The kids are on their second packet of pita already, and the others are tucking into a subliminally good eggplant dish - it's roasted and marinated in tomato and who knows what else - it's gorgeous. It might be the 'mesakaa', or simply the 'eggplant' listed on the menu, but who needs to know - we just take another bowl as Dolly passes by again. We gorge on other things - a lovely roca salad, a fair fattoush, silky garlic dip, and then the cuttlefish arrives. Goldilocks (6 year old son) eats most of it before Lion (9 year old) discovers it's not scary and he likes it. A fight breaks out over the last piece.<br/><br/>Within half an hour, the place is crammed. People are sharing tables and even every outside seat is taken, despite the 37 degree day. The crowd is the most diverse I have seen in a restaurant in Dubai. Aussies, French, Sri Lankans, Lebanese, Spanish, Japanese, Pakistani, and more nationalities fill the tables. It seems everyone is in on the secret that has taken me three years to discover. The sole arrives, skin removed, battered and deep-fried whole. It's crisp, not the slightest bit oily, perfectly seasoned. It's scraped to the bone, flipped, cleared again and then gone - faster than the cuttlefish.<br/><br/>Then the pièce de resistance - the Snapper Singary. We've ordered it cooked in an Egyptian method, where the fish is opened from the back, as it is for Iraqi Masqouf. Then it's covered with spices and softened onions, parsley and garlic, and garnished with sliced tomato. It's then oven baked quickly on a high heat. It's incredible. I think it might almost be better than Masqouf. It's soft, incredibly juicy, delicate, and so easy to eat without the spine running through the centre. The kids take slabs and roll it in pita, while I add slices of pickled green chilli to my mouthfuls. My husband quietly moans with pleasure in the corner.<br/><br/>The prawn tagine gets lost. We wait, not caring, knowing that we are too full to fit another thing in. The kids order deserts - ornate and special ice creams of a laminated sheet that reminds me of the tartufo menus in old fashioned Melbourne pizza restaurants. Lion's lemon sorbet arrives in a lemon, smoking cold. We're just about to ask for the bill when the tagine comes. We groan a little, then shift our bellies back under our belts and tentitively tuck in. It's good, very good. And we just cant' stop. The prawns are small and sweet - not particularly amazing, but good enough. The secret is in the sauce - onions softened almost to the point of french onion soup, and flavoured with garlic and dill. We ditch the cutlery and use our bread as spoons, sopping up every last bit.

As most people, I discovered Barracuda on a random day, during a random drive up and down Jumeirah Road, looking for a place to quiet down my hunger, after a day at the beach. <br/><br/>To start with, we ordered hummus, fattoush and moutabal. Or, better said, we chose the mezzeh from a trolley pushed around the restaurant. All was good, average, nothing to write home about, I'd say. During a second visit, I tried the tahina with fish, which was indeed much better and I recommend it.<br/><br/>Continuing, I order the seafood soup and then fish to share: sea bream cooked with lemon and oil and singary red snapper. Both of them were cooked superb. The sea bream was soft and "mouth hugging"; the oil created a film on my taste buds, through which the lemon could cut, acid and pungent. It was a very good after taste. The singary red snapper was the true beauty on the table, turning heads across my dining companions: the fish cut open and spread on the metal plate, cooked in a mix of "secret-Alexandrian" spices, it was a delight because it was, for me, one of those dishes that didn't miss anything. <br/><br/>So, first visit to Barracuda? Great success. Second one followed only a week after, when the girls and I decided to have a diet-friendly, Thursday dinner. On the menu? Sayyadiya soup, crab soup, red snapper with potatoes and, again, the lemon and oil fish. The sayyadiya soup hit the spot, it was what I wanted and looked for; similar to the one we make back home, a clear broth with small chunks of fish and many tiny bones, yum with a pinch of lemon and, fortunately, no cream. Same as the first time, the dining experience was one to remember: we were thrilled and, at the end of the meal, we were all happily rubbing our tummies, grinning.<br/>​<br/>My third and last visit to Barracuda happened just a week ago.Based on my previous dining experiences, we ordered the sayyadiya soup, the seafood soup, a sea bream on a bed of potatoes and the seafood tagine (let's try something new, my friend said. It will be good, he said).<br/><br/>The food came and it was nothing like I was expecting. The contrast was sky high. The sayyadiya soup that was so tasty last time it was so not this time: over salty (it tasted like a fish soup concentrate that was over reduced), too thick for a broth but too liquid to be a cream, with a huge piece of fish inside (cooked well, no complaints there). Long gone was the balanced broth I liked. Based on previous experience and the waitress's explanation, the soup should contains small pieces of fish with small bones ("It will be difficult to eat, ma'am), but instead of that, I was admiring a too big fish in a too small soup bowl. The seafood soup was the same as last time, thanks God.<br/><br/>The sea bream on the bed of potatoes should have been the highlight of our lunch. Again, based on previous experience, the potatoes should have been oven baked and have a golden brown colour, and the fish filled with a delicious filling, a perfect balance between acid, fat, salt and spice. This time around though, the potatoes seemed just boiled (golden brown colour lacking), and the fish was overcooked.<br/><br/>Last, but not least, let's talk about the tagine. I am a sucker for food with sauce, with gravy, where I can dip and soak my bread in. I don't want to beat around the bush - the tagine was over salted and I have my doubts that all seafood (shrimps, calamari and white fish) inside was fresh. I just poked at them with my fork, smelled the tagine, but didn't eat. I have a feeling the base was the same one used for the sayyadiya soup - the same saltiness, the same "fishy" flavour (fishy in a bad way, mind you). On top of that, the dish had a distinct bitterness to it, that might come out of cooking fresh herbs for too long. Not amazing. <br/><br/>Our lunch finished with me, confused, asking the waitress if they changed the chef, and her saying no. In all fairness, she asked me what is wrong and I passed my comments. I can only hope they reached the kitchen.<br/><br/>What I like and always will in Barracuda? The fresh fish counter, the patience with which the Egyptian chef explains the differences between fish and the different cooking methods, the cart with the mezzeh lined up. What I don't like? Please see above and add the big amount of hammour - an over fished species that people continue to order with oblivion.

One of my fav. restaurants ... great fish, atmosphere, service... u deserve the 5 :)

Barracuda restaurant has just launched their new website at www.barracudarestaurant.net.<br/>where we can order food online. pretty cool.

An amazing array of styles of cooking fish. This is a very small restaurant but it is worth going here for the fish. Don't order in, go there. Ask the server for the recommended styles. You will not be disappointed.