A sophisticated Greek restaurant in the heart of the financial district. Dishes to share. For lunch and dinner.
Gaia is the goddess of the earth and the mother of the sun, the mountains and the sea: in the Emirates she therefore has her rightful place. And it is in DIFC, that Eugeny Kuzin and Chef Izu have designed a second restaurant after the one in Monte-Carlo. The concept is simple, a generous Greek cuisine, dishes to share, a requirement on the freshness of the products. The result is convincing, you come here for the first time out of curiosity, and you come back again out of conviction whether for lunch or dinner. Gaia has definitely given birth to a beautiful place in the land of the Bedouins.
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We had a booking for the last seating at 14.45. I understand this is not ideal for the kitchen and the team but unfortunately we didn’t have the choice as we had a meeting just before.
The food was excellent, delicious, well presented. PERFECT.
The service was embarrassing.
No explanation on the menu, no up selling , no introduction from the waiter, not a smile.
We were rushed as the team wanted to finish their shift. Fine, I understand. They might be working long hours and might need to rest and get ready for the dinner service.
However a few mistakes happened and could have been avoided. We order a bottle of wine and then waiter came back to us and mentioned the price out loud of the bottle of wine to ensure we were aware. How embarrassing when you invite guests over.
We were confused so we asked the Sommelier why this happened, he then sighed openly on our face. I didn’t know what was going on.
Then we were eating our starters (half way) and the waiter came with clean plates to let us know he wanted to prepare us for our mains and basically clean the table. Once again very confused as we were only half way eating our starters. We felt so embarrassed and said yes sure but I think he understood he did it wrong.
Desserts have been preordered and were delicious.
Such a shame we didn’t enjoy our lunch as the food was exceptional and I really love Gaia.
Maybe we went on a bad day but for the pricing the service must be reviewed. However hostess and welcome, was faultless. Thanks to them