Hashmi Barbeque Restaurant Dubai

In the fading days of 2025, the good ladies of Nourish by Spinneys asked me where I want to eat in Dubai, among other things. Go check out the episode.

In Dubai there will always be the shiny new thing, that trendy new thing or just that trend we’ve seen cycle on loop again and again.

I cover those as a food writer partly both out of intrigue and strategically. Go where the people want you to go.

But I spent 2025 also thinking long and hard about what I want to cover and, with this modest platform, there are places deserving of your attention—our attention; places where you want to nudge people. Places perhaps known by some but not by many.

@hashmibarbeque.dxb is one such place.

“Hashmi Barbeque is a bone-gnawing, lip-licking restaurant occupying serious square footage in Al Barsha—an often-overlooked Dubai neighbourhood better known for cheap apartments and the unsolicited ‘business cards’ of scantily clad ladies surreptitiously tucked into your car window, usually the driver’s side, or so I am told.”

Hashmi Barbeque is the Kenyan-meets-Indian restaurant that more people should talk about—ideally with a mouthful of lamb and hot sauce.

Eat the mutton samosas. Order the chicken chooza. Get a plate (maybe two) of the grilled lamb chops because sharing tugs on a will-power I do not have in me. Chase it down with the kulfi ice cream.

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📍 Hashmi Barbeque, Ground Floor, Trio Building, Al Barsha 1, Al Barsha First, Al Barsha, Dubai

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