Choix Patisserie and Restaurant

Choix is a convenient breakfast stop for business travellers who would rather meet close to the airport than brave crossing the Creek to enter Downtown Dubai.

Helmed by Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire, who recently launched Pierre’s Bistro & Bar in the same hotel, Choix doesn’t run through the motions when it comes to serving breakfast.

We opted for the chef ’s special, which that morning happened to be an egg croissant. The cloud-soft in-house baked croissant is filled with egg and salmon and prepared in a way befitting of a dish from a Michelin-star chef. The Choix Royal, we are told by the highly trained wait staff - who spot the most minor flaw on our serving napkin and then promptly change it before we've even noticed - is another popular breakfast treat. You can have the eggs fried or poached and it comes served with pochas beans, veal bacon, sausages and avocado.

There are also plenty of options for tea from the pungent Masala chai to comforting chamomile. Though if you aren’t pressed for time, opt for the V60 coffee with a Tierra blend, which fills your nostrils with the intoxicating smell of freshly brewed beans - a welcome morning pick-me-up.

There are some artfully crafted desserts as well including macaroons stuffed with coconut cream, strawberry rhubarb jelly, berry tarts, éclairs and tiramisu.

If the Michelin Guide does arrive in Dubai, we’ve got a recommendation for where the anonymous inspectors should head to for breakfast.

Choix Patisserie and Restaurant, InterContinental Dubai Festival City, Dubai. 7am-8pm. Tel: (04) 7011 127.