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Beautiful ambience with water view. Friendly staff and great food makes it a perfect dining option. The grills are simply delicious and I loved the states and spicy potato too. On Entertainer app. A little pricy but worth the experience.
The Semsom Restaurant was recommended to me by two of my friends . They specifically told me to try the Arayes. It was so good. The fresh bread was great also. Try their Hummous, Falafel, Foul Madammes and Kababs.
Very traditional food and taste... portion is okay and good for one person.. they have both smoking and non smoking area.. nice ambiance very relaxed facing fountain.. staff is friendly and helpful :)
The vine leaves are epic, among all the mezza we order and the Fatté. Only downtime in our experience is a heavy sun at lunchtime with no umbrellas set for us as outdoor seating guests.
Ordered
Hummus beetroot
Lebanese cuisine
Good in quantity and quality
Reasonable and pocket friendly
Heavy quantities and huge varieties
Worth the menu options and taste served.
Presentation was traditional much!
Visited this place located inside festival city for lunch and shisha. It has an outside seating area facing the waterfront and perfect place to sit have shisha during the winters of dubai . For food we ordered : lamb kebabs, arayees, shish tawouk sandwich, fries and spicy potatoes. Personally I loved the shish tawouk sandwich, the fries, spicy potatoes and the arayees. Didn’t like the kebab at all. The ambience and decor of this place is nice and the service is fine too.
Went to this restaurant with some friends for lunch. We ordered hommus,tabouleh, fatouch, rkakat, batata harra w batat b kzbra, warak enab, sojek, and mashewe mshakal. knefe as dessert (must try) and lebanese coffee after lunch 😍. Delicious food, friendly staff. Recommended.
Everything is good, food, ambiance, staff and quality but bit overpriced for the space and service we got. It is better in winter so you don't feel it is a very closed restaurant
Lebanese cuisine with a twist! @semsomuae @dubaifestivalcity delivers a mouthful of flavours, coupled with friendly service and beautiful views..perfect way to kick off 2020 😋🍽 must try 👉🏼 olive and sesame hummus, potatoes in pesto, chicken and potato as well as their shisha!
amazing service and taste
Great food, super service from Justin. One of the good places to go for Lebanese food.
The shesha is so nice , the shesha guy ( saed ) have very nice attitude and he kept following up on us
شكر جدا للاصطاف كامل وخاص لأستاذ إبراهيم وسعد الشيشه
Good restaurant manager who is always around to check on guests which is great 👍
Best place ever in Festival City
Meats were grilled to perfection.
The freshly baked bread was also good. Soft, fluffy yet lightly crispy.
Hummus was better than average, but definitely not the best that we've had.
Only issues were that it was a bit hard to to find the location and the non-smoking area had a faint smell of smoke.
Good service in shisha and one labor in shisha nationality is egyptian his name is saad very kind and helpful and food very delicious and good experience in all kind of food very good welcome wish to go their again 😍😍😍
The manager Ibrahim was very helpful and Saad makes the best shisha ever
Dine with a view.. my favourite Lebanese restaurant in all of Dubai.. it has a beautiful view outdoors during winters(November to March)...
A very tasty dates and rose welcome drink is served every time.
The food is so fresh we made sure to finish everything till the last bite..
Hot Arabic breads with a variety of hummus is just out of this world..
If you want to treat your taste buds with good food.. I highly recommend this place.
If you’re looking for some authentic Lebanese food, then this is a great destination! Staff are very friendly and polite! I wish I can give more than 5 stars! Im absolutely coming back!
Very Friendly staff. The Food is amazing with nice variety . Nice place to gather with friends and family to have breakfast, lunch , dinner and shisha
Semsom is a place to meet friends and where you know you can always get good food, shisha, and have a good time. The staff are extremely friendly and has a familial vibe. Definitely a recommended place to spend an afternoon or evening.
Best restaurant, very nice food. Great business lunch deals.
Daily dishes are very nice, sheesha is excellent.
I highly recommend this restaurant to everyone
Amazing food, nice atmosphere and staff is very friendly. You can always have shisha indoor and outdoor. View is very good, overlooking the lazer show! Definitely will recommend it! 👍🏼
This is awesome place to have perfect Lebanese food ,and here waiter Brian is more helpful and entire staff is so cool best Lebanese restaurant I've ever seen
Best Lebanese restaurant, Courteous hospitality, Great environment, friendly staff, delicious food, the service was fast, must try! Love this place!
Used to go to this place and stop going for a while
Decided to give it another try and was not disappointed at all. Food got improved a lot, really really yummy lebanese food. Staff has always been nice and friendly and service is fast and good. Would definitely recommend it !
The food is amazing and the service was fast. Very friendly staff. Iftar menu was very generous I would definitely recommend this place to friends and family
Feel like home surrounded by exceptional polite staff besides the 200 years old olive tree, enjoy your Shisha in quite place in front of festival lake Fontaine
This place has a great view and quick service, the food is good but not the best in town. In the dfc neighborhood this could easily be the best Lebanese food joint
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We were out shopping in the festival city mall and as it was lunch time we decided to visit this beautifully designed lebanese restaurant.
We ordered,
The chicken mozzarella sandwich AED45
Mixed grill with fatoush and hummus sides AED72
Fattet shishbarak with dried mint AED34
Mint lemonade AED20
Samsom, opened in early 2018, was on our list of 'to be discovered' places. We finally got to try out this fantastic place..
The founders of this restaurant chain are on a mission! 'to take Lebanese cuisine all over to the world'
Food was exquisite, presentation was beautiful and the overall experience was just out of the world!
My favourite was the chicken mozzarella sandwich. It was oozing flavours and was deliciously crunchy.
Another favourite was the fattet shishbarak. It was deliciously made with the right mix of ingredients. The mélange of laban, chickpea and toasted pita is just gorgeous.
Mixed grill was quite good. I opted for double shish taouk and kebab. Served with traditional accompaniments such as toum (garlic sauce), batata harra (spiced potato) and lemon and chilly. You get to choose from a variety of sides and I ordered fattoush and hummus. It was a fulfilling dish and the freshly baked bread served with it was just spot on..
Mint lemonade was good and went well with the food.
Overall the food was just mouth-watering and the ambience is just stunning. I loved the intricately designed outdoors and elegantly decorated indoors. The dispense bar is also beautifully designed with copper utensils and moorish tiles.
It was a shame that we didn't get to try their famous desserts and sheesha..
I will definitely go back to try them out..
Love this place!!! The food is so good and yummy, the staff is so nice and helpful and specially the manager. And the shisha is fantastic. Great place for dinner or just to chill and smoke shisha. Obviously the view is beautiful!
Very good service. And I love this restaurant to much thank you for everything and I will come again for sure . I would like to thanks the manger also for his behavior as well
The place is next to the creek in festival city , it has an outdoor and indoor seating and the staff are friendly and helpful, and the food is so good !! We had omelette, halloumi with pesto and foul for breakfast . Must try !!
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@semsom an authentic lebanese restaurant located in Dubai Festival City, fountain area. Offering a spectacular view with an amazingly scrumptious freshly made lebanese cuisine with a twist.
Everything is made with perfection, and authenticity with a mouthwatering taste. They ambiance is just perfect, with an amazing outdoor and indoor dining area. So you can enjoy the best lebanese food with a great view.
They offer an amazing range of lebanese cuisines. From mouthwatering fattoush to flavoured hummus, grills to kebabs, appetizers to variety of desserts option. Everything is cooked with perfection. This place will not disappoint anyone.
Loved everything from service to taste, ambiance to presentation everything was just perfect.
Food Ordered 👇🏻
Hummus Arnabit.
Super smooth and creamy, freshly made flavorful hummus with roasted cauliflowers was a perfect treat for a hummus lover like me. Simply loved it.
Semsom Fattoush.
Lebanese salad made from fried pieces of khubz and fresh vegetables with a twist of sumac and pomegranate sauce. It was just a perfect combination of sweet and sour. Loved every bite of it.
Hot Appetizer Platter.
A perfect platter with Chicken osmalieh, Cheese osmalieh, Cheese rolls, Shawarma meat rolls and fries. Everything was just perfect with oozing cheese and meat cooked in special blend of spices. Loved it.
Arayes Kafta.
Freshly made Grilled pita bread filled with lamb meat, onions, tomatoes and spices. It was so scrumptious in taste. Simply amazing.
Mixed Grill.
Made with perfection. A perfect treat for all meat lovers. Cooked in special blend of spices, amazingly cooked. Loved every bite of it.
Lamb Chops.
The most tender, juicy and flavorful lamb chops i ever had. Perfect cooked. Loved the taste and presentation.
Desserts.
They have an amazing range of desserts on the menu from authentic lebanese to ice creams you can get all at semsom.
Chocolate Fondant with vanilla Icecream.
Freshly made chocolate fondant with oozing hot chocolate topped with vanilla icecream a perfect treat to satisfy your sweet tooth craving.
Semsom Icecream.
Loved every bite of semson chocolate and strawberry icecream. Creamy in texture with chunks of strawberries and chocolate chip. Amo delicious.
Drinks.
They have an amazing variety of freshly made juices and hot drinks.
Loved the mint lemonade and freshly squeezed orange juice.
Amby and Service. 5/5
Semson is undoubtably one of the finest lebanese restaurant in Dubai. Ambiance and service is just perfect. It is a perfect place for sheesha lovers too with outdoor seating area with a spectacular view of Imagine show.
This place is truly carrying the legacy of taking Lebanese cuisine all over the world! Simply loved it.
Overall Experience.👍🏻 5/5
Do try this place guys you will loved it.
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Top restaurant in Dubai with the tastiest food, best shisha and amazing, welcoming staff you can find. Great service! Highly recommended and must try.
Decided to visit this place with friends for a light dinner and shisha. It was crowded, but we managed to get a seat. the staff were polite and friendly. We were given a rose welcome drink which was sweet and flavorful. we ordered the Humus with sumac, falafel, honey shish taouk and the fattah with dried mint. We went for the blueberry shisha which was perfect. one of the best blueberry shisha's i have tried.
The ambience was cozy and beautiful decor. My friend initially chose the apple shisha which she did not like at all!! I t didn't taste like apple. However, the manager was polite enough to immediately get it changed despite the place being crowded.
The view of the waterfront and the location is amazing for this restaurant. the price is not too steep. Its great for a get together. There is a kids play area inside too.
Best lebanese resturant ♥️ friendly staff.. lovely place,delicious food, amazing Shisha♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺.
You just feel u belong to the place.
Love this place. Love the staff. Ibrahim and others. Most importantly, love the food. We generally have the freekeh with chicken and different kinds of Hummus. Each one of them is delicious but yet still tastes like hummus and does not take the charm away.
Nice place, great shisha . For a Lebanese restaurant outside lebanon the food taste was original, loved the fattoush qnd homos , made me feel like in lebanon
Best Lebanese Food I have tried and Great Service, the restaurant decore and ambiance is lovely. The staff were very welcoming, I will come again. Keep it up
Yummy Arabic food place with so much colourful interiors. I really liked the mix grills 😍 they have colourful different types of chairs / sofa. Very pretty!! It's very recommendable xx
The food is alright. Staff is exceptionally good. They are very courteous and friendly. The service is professional and timely. The place could be better appointed.
This place is besides the creek in festival city mall. Has indoor and outdoor seating. Winters are great to have the outdoor seating seeing the Yatches parked and some occasional fireworks during the shopping festival.
Relaxing and laid back place.
We went there just to have sheesha. Grape and apple flavors are my favorites. Nicely served, sadly closes down at 12.
Finger foods here are good, nice styled and rolled falafel served with tahina.
They have nice unlimited options on offer. Pretty Lebanese sandwiches are all time favorites.
Fresh juices are nicely done. Overall a nice place with nice ambience and good to chill out with your friends.
The restaurant is located at the waterfront. The staff are friendly and helpful. The food was delicious. Ordered the pink hummus, fattoush, fish kebbe, and taouk. Overall great value for money.
Located at the waterfront, the restaurant has a nice setting and great interior.
The food was great and I liked that fact that it's much lighter than the topical Lebanese cuisine.
The kabab Khashkhash and lamb chops are recommend.
The service is also prompt and staff are friendly.
Great setting, love the interior. A few too many flies but they helped by burning some charcoal near our table. For a guy that’s not crazy about Arabic food the kunafa here tastes amazing. Shisha was on point, (just grape). And their ginger is pretty decent also.
A Lebanese restaurant with a twist, ambiance and view are very nice, smoking area available, staff are friendly, food presentation is perfect, taste lack of flavours, fattouch is fresh and the best, the rest of the food was avarage.
Ambiance: 4
Service: 4
Taste: 3
Quantity: 3
Quality: 4
Value: 3
Appearance: 5
Very great place to spend your evenings. It is indeed Value for money, delicious food, great service, shisha is great by Mr. Youssuf (shisha man).
Seriously , it was one of the best experiences.
We liked the fusion food, the Hummus was amazing, Sujuk arayess are a must try as well.
The Fattouch was an innovative product, I liked the variety of the vegetables.
Layla was very helpful, friendly and professional.
Keep it up guys, will come back soon !!!
Came here with a group of friends and there was a waiting list to be seated in the Shisha zone!
Very friendly staff and our experience was quite nice. We ordered the meat arayes, chilli and regular hummus, cheese manakish, fatoush, beet root muttabil for starters.
The arayes was the best I’ve tasted so far and the hummus was on point too. The famous Semsom beet root muttabil however did not meet expectations, as it was a bit dry in texture.
For mains, we got a kebab platter including the Adana kebab and shish tawook. While the chicken was quite nice the Adana lacked the juiciness in flavour and missed the mark.
The place including shisha is a bit on the pricier side, but the overall experience was good, ambiance quite nice and staff friendly.
Very tasty labenese food with a twist, Restaurant loaction and water front view make your experiance more wonderfull.
Food and staff at this place really good and well trained, a thumb 👍 for manager who trained them so well...
keep up good work guys...
see you very soon...😊
Lebanese Restaurant with a twist is one of my favorites especially their business lunch meals Sunday to Thursday with reasonable price around AED 48 with salad and drink.
Nice atmosphere like ancient times in Lebanon and friendly staff.
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Starting from the moment you enter the Resturant , you feel your self home
The staff is awesome , the food is amazing and the ambiance is super.
This was our first visit there but am sure there will be a lot more.
From the warm welcome to the tasty turkish coffee (that I didn't get a chance to take pictures of). This restaurant is truely mesmerizing with all the details and superb service!! We went as a group of four and ordered the freeke salad (which is recommended as one of their best) and the chicken potato that you will not have a chance to taste anywhere else in Dubai! Even though the place was packed the service was beyond excellent, which is not the case in most of Dubai's restaurants. A hidden gem in Dubai Festival City!
wow what a pleasure it is to write a review for this exceptional restaurant, me and my family were privileged enough to be invited for lunch at Semsom, I have been to many Lebanese restaurants in Dubai and throughout the GCC but this was definitely in top 3 for me.
The service, ambiance and food were exceptional a massive shoutout to our lovely waitress ‘Layla’ who made our experience even better with her warm welcoming genuine attitude. Thank you so much Layla, I highly recommend this restaurant to anyone who wants to be blown away with the quality of food 👌
Thank you Semsom for a magical experience.
I visited Semsom 2 days ago. I had a great time. The ambiance was nice. The food was delicious. Our server Layla was very helpful and friendly. I will definitely go again.
Very nice place, they have separate room for people smoke shisha. The staffs are nice . The most important is their food are very good, we had good time there! 👍🏼
Semsom service with a smile on of my favorite places for shisha and coffee
Friendly and helpful staff ..excellent service and great shisha.
Excellent place to gather with friends and watch the Festival city fountain show.
Highly Recommend that you try the different lemonade and Hummous selection.
The place is a must visit when you're in Dubai Festival city mall as its family-friendly.
Try the place out for yourself, you will not regret it.
I am getting addicted to the fat touch salad. I ordered hummus Shasta Inadded olives and tabasco to it, it was amazing. I love the colors of this restaurant and I will come back for sure.
Visited Semson, great Lebanese food. The presentation and taste of food was amazing. The service was quick. The welcome drink - Rosewater was nice. Great ambience. Must try their different types of Hummus.
We went there for a team meeting and it was a very good choice the salads were amazing and the mix grill was very delicious and yummy to be honest all the food qas very yummy and the drinks also
I am late in writing this review and I must say this restaurant has tickled my palate in a very satisfying manner. the food was great cooked well and served on time, the waiter helped us with our options with a great smile. I will always recommend this place for people who want to relax enjoy a meal with good ambiance.
An unplanned lunch with friends got us here one afternoon. The place is pretty and overlooks the waterfront which adds to the beauty. The staff could be more attentive and friendly.
We started the meal with a Hummus, a Baba Ganoush and a Fattoush. The Hummus was creamy and delicious, the Baba Ganoush was a bit dry and tasted a bit burnt however the Fattoush was really good, perfectly tangy and crunch.
We also called for the Spicy Potatoes and a portion of Shawarma. The mains were pretty good. The spicy potatoes were well done and cooked to perfection. The Shawarma was great too, it was a generous portion served with garlic paste. Would have loved to try the desserts here but were in a hurry to leave. I would go back here if I were at the Festival City Mall and wanted to have a Lebanese meal.
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