Open Tue-Sun 7pm-11.30pm. All major credit cards accepted. Average price of a meal for two with a glass of house wine Dhs300-400.

From the instant you enter the great wooden gates to this Moroccan paradise, you'll know you're in for a rare Dubai treat: excellent surroundings, exquisite food, and not a hint of cheesy Arabian Nights paraphernalia in sight. If Moroccans from a rural town ever sat down for dinner here, Tagine would be a confusing affair. Most items on the menu are considered poor people's food, and they're presented in the same way as traditional Moroccan meals, except here the china is expensive, the tagine covers are silver, and there's an array of forks and knives for each place. Traditionally, the food would be eaten with your fingers from a number of plates in the centre, but Tagine is far from the rudimentary world of rural Morocco. Here, the mezze, which includes beetroot salad, a carrot concoction and a courgette mix, is served in tiny blue and white ornamental plates that most people would use to decorate their living rooms and not dream of scraping food out of. The tagine sousssi, or lamb tagine with ginger, parsley and a host of other flavours, is a generous portion of juicy soft lamb and vegetables and is served withy justifiable pomp. The same could be said of the tasty tangia lamb shank, although it would've been considerably easier to pry the hunks of meat from the bone with your fingers. But even if you wanted to you wouldn't. Tagine is a thoroughly classy establishment, and you wouldn't want to ruin a perfectly romantic evening by getting your fingers greased up.