Trèsind markets itself as a fine dining Indian restaurant in Dubai. It offers a progressive Indian cuisine to its customers. 

We had read a lot of good reviews for this restaurant and its Chef, Himanshu Saini, so for our trip to Dubai in March we decided to go check it out, accompanied by a friend who lives there. 

For our dinner, we had the famous chef’s tasting menu which came in seven dishes, including amuse-bouches and dessert. 

We enjoyed arugula pani puri missi roti with green chili butter and the modernist chaat tart. We really appreciated the soup mushroom chai, dehydrated mushroom, truffle milk powder. The starter, tandoori rosemary lamb chops with chimichurri chutney and tandoori tiger prawn, amritsari soft shell crab demonstrated what Indian cuisine is all about, as it combines technical cooking with Indian ingredients and spices. The main course, prawn curry, lamb & coconut stew, chicken chettinad served with malabari paratha khichdi of India could have been served in a smaller serving size in our opinion, particularly when part of a seven-dish tasting menu. For the final, the dessert, black forest mithai cake and paan cotton candy, was a bit too sweet and too heavy. It would have deserved to be lighter and more refined. A dessert should always end a meal on a subtle note. 

The wine list is very, very expensive, too expensive for commoners like us. It has clearly been conceived for the ultra-rich. Our bottle from Sula, the Dindori Reserve 2020, was 100 euros, ten times its price at a wine retailer. We shared our surprise about it with the duty manager. 

The service at Trèsind was not up to the standard of a fine dining restaurant. The empty dishes were taken away to quickly even as one of us was not finished and still eating, one of the waiters came to present and prepare the next dish for our table in front of us and realized mid-preparation that the dish was actually for another table. 

Overall, the cooking of Himanshu Saini is good, his technical skills and prowess proved his desire to modernize Indian food and bring it into high gear. But the service is really in needs to up their game.

Trèsind 

Voco Hotel, Level - 2 Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade Centre

Dubai - UEA

Téléphone  +971 4 308 0440

www.tresind.com/dubai