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Dubai’s most expensive restaurant at AED5000 per person

The 12-diner capacity restaurant will open in November for a six month period until May 2023

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Image: Sublimotion Dubai

Launched in Mandarin Oriental Dubai, Sublimotion offers a theatrical dinner experience, a 10-course meal, live performances and 360-degree screens with surround imagery.

The restaurant only seats 12 diners at a time, each seat priced at AED5,000.

To top the AED5,000 per person price tag, the restaurant previously had an ‘Ultimate Sublimotion Experience’ package priced at AED19,000.

The AED19,000 price tag included a stay in the suite at the Mandarin Oriental, breakfast, spa treatment for two, pick up in a Tesla and two seats to dine at Sublimotion Dubai. However, this package is no longer available, a representative for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group in the Middle East told Arabian Business.

The experience is set in a roofless box with a long table seating 12 guests with each guest’s name projected onto the table. The whole dining show lasts two hours.

Food descends from the ceiling, projections, lighting and expert attention to detail is what a diner can expect from the experience.

The new season will run from November 2022 to May 2023.

Season two of the experience will run a different show from season one, season two of the dining experience will also have a AED5,000 package with unlimited premium beverages and a non-alcoholic package option at AED3,500 per person.

The whole experience has a crew of 25 designers, engineers, stage directors, composers, illusionists, and actors, working to deliver the two hour dining performance. Image: Sublimotion Dubai

The concept was launched in Ibiza in 2014 by chef Paco Roncero, chef and owner of two Michelin-starred Paco Roncero Restaurante in Madrid, before making its way to Dubai, last year.

“Diners are welcomed into the exciting world of molecular gastronomy and haute cuisine where innovation, art and technology combine to create dramatic culinary delights in an original and compelling atmosphere,” the Mandarin Oriental website states.

The whole experience has a crew of 25 designers, engineers, stage directors, composers, illusionists, and actors, working to deliver the two hour dining performance.

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Abdul Rawuf

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