Cinnamon Grand’s Courtyard now home to a shisha lounge

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The breezy terrace of the Cinnamon Grand’s Courtyard is now home to a shisha lounge with 15 flavours of shisha, including chocolate, mint, cherry, strawberry and double apple. With a range of juices, smoothies, mocktails and other beverages available, it provides the ideal setting for an evening wind down as the day’s stress goes up in smoke and the night’s calm sets in. Completing this experience is a special Arabic menu which draws on the best cuisine from the Middle Eastern landscape with its exotic flavours in meats, seafood, mixed grills, salads and sweet treats. Cinnamon Grand’s Chef Sunanda Weeratunge, who specialises in Arabic cuisine guarantees you the most authentic of Arabian fare as he has mastered the cuisine during his many years in the Middle East.

Having worked in the personal kitchens of the Prime Minister of Bahrain and the Head of the State Umm in Dubai, Chef Sunanda has been party to the chefs who catered when entertaining royalty, in the respective countries. This experience and exposure he brings with him to Cinnamon Grand’s Arabic Corner where he will serve up the most traditional of dishes. The menu offers Middle Eastern starters such as hummus, mouatabel, muhammara, warak enab, fattouch salad, labneh and Arabic mezzeh, to name a few, with soups such as shorbat adas, harira soup and tomato shorba. Chef Sunanda can also cook up a delicious Arabic mixed grill, shish kebab, samak mashwi (grilled hamour fish fillet), dajaj mashwi (grilled chicken), dawood basha (marinated beef balls stew cooked in savoury tomato and onion sauce with vermicelli rice), laham and okra stew, chicken shawarma or macaroni béchamel. His desserts, such as omm ali, mahallabiya, baklava, basbousa, cream caramel and kataif, offers the perfect way to end a truly typical Arabic meal. The Arabic Corner is open daily, from 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., at Cinnamon Grand’s Courtyard Restaurant, so you can enjoy a touch of the Arabian flair at the Cinnamon Grand. Call 0112497361/2 for reservations.