Lemonade, the Californian chain, a favourite of the celebrities who slave away on sets near the West Hollywood and Venice Beach branches, opened at the end of April in Ibn Battuta Mall, with a Shaikh Zayed Road restaurant to open on August 1.
Lemonade is in many ways a celebration of light, So-Cal vegetable dishes, but in no way is this punishment on a plate. They’ve got all those trendy veggies you’ve been wanting to try — kale, watermelon radishes, edamame — served in bright, appetising ways.Those radishes — beautiful whorls of pink and green, with a light peppery flavour — dominate a mix of seared ahi tuna and white and black sesame, spiked with a ginger vinaigrette. It’s pretty and punchy. Just don’t call it a salad.
Seasonal menu Fourteen cold vegetable dishes on a changing, seasonal menu, are presented at the front of the canteen-style restaurant take a tray and the servers will dish out the food for you; one portion of a veggie dish is Dh14, a plate of four kinds is Dh51.
Take the pineapple chicken with roasted green beans, shredded roasted coconut and a wicked dose of jalapeno chilli. It’s spicy and flavourful, and it happens to be the favourite dish on the menu of both founder Alan Jackson and chief operating officer Ian Olson.
For the meat eaters, don’t want to eat your veggies? There’s plenty to try, beyond the likes of avocado and cherry tomatoes with pine nuts and lime cilantro vinaigrette a signature dish that couldn’t be more Californian. Nine enamelware pots brim with braises everyday Dh39 with rice; the jerk chicken is spicy yet soothing, and the melting red-miso beef short rib is something you’d find in a fine-dining restaurant; there’s also the vegan kale, tomato and white bean braise. Do have the mac-and-cheese Dh24 on the side. There’s also a rotisserie, and on Thursday lunchtime, it was a piece of lamb roasting away, ready to be served with tzaziki. Desserts include CD-sized macaroons, piled-high cupcakes and cakes strawberry lemonade and some gluten-free cookies. The lemonade comes in Old-Fashioned, watermelon-rosemary and mint, among others a jalapeno-apple might be on the way.
Lemonade is at China Court, Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai, open 11am-midnight. Call 800-LEMONADE.
via GulfNews.com.
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