Salmon Guru
Cocktail bar
From the team behind the Madrid original: intimate, neon-lit and comic-book styled, with bartenders who make drinks to order in unusual vessels.
📍 The Opus by Omniyat, Business Bay, Dubai
Downtown and Business Bay: 7 bars
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Honeycomb Hi-Fi
Listening bar
A speakeasy-style listening bar entered through a vinyl record shop, with a bespoke sound system, wood panels, sake, Japanese craft beer and cocktails such as the Manga Rita.
📍 Pullman Dubai Downtown, Business Bay, Dubai
Electric Pawn Shop
Underground bar
An underground bar in neon red, themed on 1970s New York Chinatown, with local and international DJs and a bestselling Night Rider Negroni.
📍 The H Hotel, One Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai
Monkey Bar
Rooftop bar
A rooftop at the 25hours Hotel One Central with a terrace of gold cages and plants in the cooler months and a colourful tiki room in summer. Try the Pandan Colada.
📍 25hours Hotel Dubai One Central, Trade Centre, Dubai
Amelia
Cocktail bar and restaurant
A branch of a Beirut original with gothic decor, an organ for a DJ booth and a spiral staircase, serving cocktails dressed with edible flowers and even caviar.
📍 Address Sky View, Downtown Dubai
Soirée
Wine bar
A wine bar on a floor of Zaha Hadid's Opus tower, with an Art Deco bar counter and vinyl records, recognised by Star Wine List in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
📍 ME Dubai, Opus Tower, Business Bay
VNTG
Wine bar
An enoteca-style wine bar with more than 350 labels (over 55 by the glass) and sharing plates.
📍 JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai, Business Bay
Map: downtown and business bay
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Your questions
Where are the best bars in Downtown Dubai and Business Bay?
Start with Salmon Guru, Honeycomb Hi-Fi, Electric Pawn Shop, Monkey Bar and Amelia. Our full list has 7 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run cocktail festivals in more than 20 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland and have worked with hundreds of bars since 2022. We put this guide together from our own research, The World's 50 Best Bars lists and trusted local guides.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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