Social plates up a pretty sweet offering

Review

Social by Heinz Beck is a contemporary Italian restaurant unlike any I’ve tried in Dubai. The clean and minimalistic space’s atmosphere is the perfect mix of relaxed yet elegant, and the terrace has magnificent views of the city and the rest of the Palm Jumeirah.

The special three-course set menu at Social by Heinz Beck includes the Fagotelli Carbonara, which is the three-Michelin Star chef’s most famous signature dish, a roasted veal with pistachio crust, and a deconstructed tiramisu for dessert. That isn’t all. Heinz Beck is known throughout Italy and Europe as a notable master of modern gastronomy. He interprets traditional Italian dishes in a modern way.

Social is all about giving people the ultimate fine dining experience, so expect delicious canapes, pallet cleansers and petit fours throughout your meal.

Yes, the Dubai Restaurant Week menu is

made up of three courses, but at Social by Heinz Beck, before you even start with your Fagotelli Carbonara, you are offered a selection of six canapes, as well as homemade rice crackers infused with savours that you wouldn’t normally expect to eat on a cracker.

This is followed by a bread basket made up of potato focaccia and the most delicious sourdough imaginable. Before your threecourse meal commences, you get a special amuse bouche of the day as a palate cleanser. Ours was a tuna tartar with pureed apricot.

Take our server’s advice when you dip into the Fagotelli arrives. “Make sure you use a spoon and eat each parcel in one bite,” he says. With the first bite, the Fagotelli Carbonara filling melts out — it’s warm and creamy.

The next course is the pistachio encrusted veal medallion — two each, on a bed of pureed apricots. The meat is cooked perfectly.

Dessert is a show stealer. The deconstructed tiramisu is served then drizzled with coffee cream sauce. It’s not over. After dessert you are once again given a platter of petit fours that end the night on an even sweeter note.