This may have been an Italian restaurant. The one I'm thinking of was across from a hotel near the airport. No, on second thought, I'm pretty sure this was at a hotel in Bur Dubai. As well, I should add complete names so all these smiling people will find the blog when looking themselves up during a search.
It was a Christmas lunch away from Dubai Men's College of the UAE Higher Colleges of Technology. Brits really make a party out Christmas. That said, I do notice Christmas crackers in local Canadian stores at that time of year.
I'm including this picture today as I recently heard from a colleague from Dubai days. Suzie, in the pink hat, is sitting at the far end of the table and I'm on this side of her. We'd not been in contact for a decade or so. I got an email out of the blue with a her new (to me) married name. Most startling, she was writing from Mississippi. I can only imagine what will happen to her formerly cute accent now!