Savour allnew Veganuary menu, authentic Mediterranean favourites at Majlis Al Sultan

To ring in the new year, Majlis Al Sultan is redefining its space and is ready to wow residents and visitors of Dubai. Diners can eat, drink, and make merry with family and friends in the spot’s beautiful indoor and cool outdoor settings ideal for spending a pleasant evening with delicious Mediterranean cuisine, speciality coffee, and decadent dessert with great company.

This month, Majlis Al Sultan has fresh offers and events for its diners to experience gourmet Mediterranean culinary treasures as you settle into 2023. Sink your teeth into premium succulent cuts of house grilled meat, bring the kids in to discover authentic Mediterranean cuisine, catch up with colleagues over the all-new Business Lunch, get a free coffee with an order of the

Breakfast platter and reserve a spot for the new ladies’ night special. This month’s spotlight is the Veganuary menu, Majlis Al Sultan is calling on all vegan diners to highlight the traditional Levantine dishes that they can indulge in.

Majlis Al Sultan is going all in to welcome its vegan diners in Veganuary 2023. This January, vegans can indulge in the award-winning restaurant’s menu with several kinds of meat alternatives and vegetarian meals.

Middle Eastern cuisine is rich in original vegan dishes such as Quinoa Tabbouleh, traditional creamy Hummus, Baba Ganouj, Fattoush Salad, Foul Medames (Fava Bean Dip), Falafel and so much more!

In addition to these favourites, Majlis Al Sultan will have a special Veganuary menu including vegan versions of authentic Mediterranean cuisine such as Veggie Maqlouba, Lebanese Loubyeh b’zeit (Green Bean Stew), Fatayer (Spinach Pies), Vegan Kofte, Mushroom Dolma, Mejadra, Raw Pistachio Baklava, Vegan Basbousa and more.

Welcome to the Grill Republic

Flame-grilled meats are a Majlis Al Sultan speciality. This January, decode the secrets of the ‘Grill Republic’ from the innovative fire & smoke grill at the Mediterranean eatery. Each recipe uses fresh, high-quality products and techniques that depend on originality and meticulous preparation by the expert kitchen staff.

Diners can choose from a wide range of flavourful premium char-grilled Middle Eastern cuts of marinated meat from lamb tenderloin, shoulders, chops and shank to premium Angus and wagyu beef, corn-fed chicken and fresh fish with the Chef’s signature seasoning and stuffing.

Every dish is cooked low and slow on a woodfire to imbibe maximum of the natural smoky flavour into the succulent cuts. Indulge your taste buds and dazzle friends and family with an explosion of flavours with every bite of these grilled favourites in Majlis Al Sultan’s indoor and outdoor settings.

Ladies’ Night - Thursdays at Majlis Al Sultan

Every Thursday evening, ladies can visit Majlis Al Sultan to enjoy unlimited Sangria mocktails, with a choice of two mezzeh menu items and shisha. With an elegant indoor & outdoor venue and shisha of single, blended, and unique speciality flavours of many kinds, ladies can enjoy catching up with their friends near the end of the week.

Launching today, Elemental Perception brings together five world-renowned artists: Julio Le Parc, Blair Thurman, Jan Kalab, Miguel Chevalier, JeanBaptiste Bernadet at Galloire in City Walk, Dubai. These artists collectively manipulate geometric forms, and utilise colour and light to evoke a fundamental response from, and innate connection with the viewer. The works invite one to intuit; to see by sense: They prompt us to consider the organic and the machine, our path from primordial soup to our technology-driven tomorrow, and whilst some of the works invite us to revel in pure beauty and our romantic dreams of youth, they also challenge us to ponder our ultimate trajectory of decay.

This exhibition is a regional-first for Julio Le Parc, master and pioneer of Op Art and Kinetic Art. In a selection of key pieces within the show, we see the range of his oeuvre across paintings and immersive installations. His seminal work fosters the ability to intertwine the observer with the art, where the spectators are amalgamated into the creative process. This ability to engage the eye and trigger different reactions is something that perpetuates through the exhibition.

Leading art writer, Nadine Khalil says “While he stands out as the most eminent artist in Galloire’s current group show, his work traces a historical trajectory from which springs a shared language of light as movement and form. Throughout Elemental Perception, a grammar of perceptual fields by five artists interrogates our relationship with an external world that is in constant flux. With these different drafts on how we see and what we see, the primacy of the naked eye is evident, as well as an understanding of the technologies of sight - insofar as what we see fluctuates before our eyes. In the exhibition are not just singular, chromatic objects; there are compositions that change according to our presence in the spaces around them.”

Exploring the exhibition, one moves from the monumental geometric paintings of Blair Thurman, resonating with memories and fascinations of childhood, to the brightly coloured works of Jean-Baptiste Bernadet which have us reflecting, within their abstraction, on impressionist sunsets, winding rivers and quaint villages seen from the hillside.

At one moment, the computer-induced logic of hybridization, architectural fantasies and virtual cities emerge, created by digital art forerunner, Miguel Chevalier. Particularly in Dubai, his MetaCities work captivates as it straddles questions of urbanization, ever-taller towers and the looming buzz of the Metaverse. The seeming coldness of Chevalier’s rigid neon lines finds an antidote in the joyful colours and organic curving forms of Jan Kalab’s three-dimensional paintings. Here we see creation, cell division, biological life and a wider universe, expanding endlessly.

And so, the exhibition allows one to chart a path through wonderous uses of colour, form and light by some of today’s leading artists. They are innovators and explorers of perception, just as Julio Le Parc himself reflects on his work with his early collaborators Francisco Sobrino, Francois Morellet and the like: “We started with the experience of the person looking and then, from there, participation was solicited little by little with other experiences until it was an active and reflexive participation.”