Fish Market

Fish Market is a long-standing Creek-side seafood restaurant at Radisson Blu Hotel Deira, designed as an actual fish market where diners select their fresh catch from displayed ice beds and the kitchen cooks it to order. The interior carries the concept through with genuine commitment - hanging scales, wooden crates, tiled surfaces - while the floor-to-ceiling windows look directly across the creek to the heritage architecture and wind towers of Al Seef, one of the more atmospheric dinner views in old Dubai. The kitchen prepares the day's catch in a broad spread of Asian and international styles. The lobster thermidor is among the most praised main-course preparations and arrives with genuine restraint; the seafood bucket with Cajun sauce - served over buttered white rice, with a complimentary lobster-shaped garlic bread on the side - is the house signature shared dish. The Singaporean chilli and black-pepper prawn sauces are proper work, the grilled and steamed whole fish are cleanly finished, and a tight selection of vegetables and rice accompanies the mains well. Service is warm, patient, and genuinely practised at walking first-time guests through the counter-selection process. The floor team is long-tenured, reads family tables and solo diners with the same composure, and pours occasion bookings with small considered gestures - complimentary birthday desserts, photographs, remembered preferences across visits. The fish-bucket sharing format often becomes a group centrepiece, occasionally staged as a light table challenge. Pricing is honest and depends on the selections from the counter; a shared dinner with sauces and sides lands well within the mid-range bracket, and the old-Dubai location carries no premium over the cooking. For a creek-side seafood dinner with a genuinely distinctive format and one of the more atmospheric views in the city, Fish Market remains one of the most interesting seafood bookings in Dubai. Reservations are worth making for weekend evenings.