Dubai Grill

What Dubai Grill is

Dubai Grill is a Lebanese restaurant and shisha room in Roma Norte, Mexico City. It sells the two halves of a Lebanese evening together: a table of mezze and charcoal skewers first, then shisha and mint tea for as long as you want to sit there.

Mexico has one of the oldest and largest Lebanese diasporas outside the Middle East, and Lebanese food has been part of the country’s everyday eating for a century, most visibly as tacos árabes and al pastor. Dubai Grill sits at the more traditional end of that history rather than the fused end. Its own description, in the OpenTable Mexico listing where it appears in the city’s Lebanese category, promises traditional Lebanese recipes prepared daily with fresh ingredients and imported spices, running from shawarma and falafel through hummus, kibbeh and tabbouleh to the grill.

One caveat about finding it. The restaurant has very little published presence: no website, no widely listed street number, no confirmed hours. When I filmed there in August 2026 its Google rating was 4.9, which for a place with this small a digital footprint says the business runs on regulars rather than on search traffic. Message @dubaigrillmx before you set out.

Who is behind it

The owner is Lebanese and, when I visited, was the person greeting guests at the door and working the room. That is not incidental detail. It is the reason the menu reads as a Lebanese family table rather than a generic Middle Eastern one, with the cold mezze given as much space as the grill and the shisha treated as part of the meal rather than a bar add-on.

How the menu works

The menu is built for sharing, and the cheapest route through it is the set rather than ordering plate by plate.

• The traditional set for two, 560 MXN. Hummus and baba ganoush in large portions, tabbouleh, two fried meat croquettes in the kibbeh style, a plate of stuffed grape leaves and a plate of meat with rice.
• The Mixed Grill. The house signature: lamb, chicken and kafta skewers from the charcoal, served with hummus and fresh salad.
• Sides. Crisp fried potatoes, and cauliflower in a creamy sauce.
• The wider menu. Shawarma, falafel and the rest of the standard Lebanese repertoire.
• Drinks. Arak, the anise spirit that clouds when water is added, and fresh mint tea.
• Shisha. Mint, lemon and apple among the flavours.

What I ate in August

I ordered the traditional set for two and then added the Mixed Grill, the fried potatoes and the cauliflower. The set alone would have fed four people. The skewers were the best part of the meal: lamb, chicken and minced kafta, all cooked over charcoal and tender rather than dried out, which is the usual failure mode for a mixed grill.

We finished with arak and a shisha and stayed at the table for another hour. On the value alone, this was one of the cheapest large meals I have had in Roma Norte.

What it costs

The set price below is the figure I checked in August 2026. The others are the ranges a Lebanese grill of this type charges in Roma Norte, since the restaurant does not publish a menu online. Prices move.

Item	Price
Traditional Lebanese set for two	560 MXN, about 33 USD
Mixed Grill	mid range, the main to add to the set
Sides, potatoes or cauliflower	low, worth adding
Arak	by the glass
Shisha	per pipe, shared at the table
Two people eating and smoking	roughly 900 to 1,200 MXN in total

The point of the pricing here is the ratio rather than the absolute number. The set is designed for two and comfortably feeds three or four, so the per-person cost drops sharply the more of you there are.

How to book

There is no published reservation system, which is consistent with the rest of the restaurant’s online presence.

• Instagram: @dubaigrillmx is the working contact channel, for the address as much as for a table.
• OpenTable Mexico: Dubai Grill appears in the platform’s Lebanese restaurants listing for Mexico City, which is the most stable third-party record of the place.
• Walk in: fine on a weekday. If you are four or more, or you want a shisha table, message ahead.
• Hours: not published anywhere I could verify. Ask on Instagram before travelling.

Getting there

• Neighbourhood: Roma Norte, alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.
• Address: the exact street and number are not published. Confirm with the restaurant on Instagram before you go.
• Metro: Roma Norte is served by Insurgentes and Sevilla on Line 1, both within walking distance of most of the neighbourhood.
• Metrobús: Line 1 runs along Insurgentes with stops at Durango, Álvaro Obregón and Sonora.
• On foot: the neighbourhood is flat and walkable, and most of it is within fifteen minutes of the Fuente de Cibeles.
• Parking: street parking in Roma Norte is hard in the evening. Take a taxi or a ride hail.

Before you go

• Confirm the address first. This is the one place on my Mexico City list where I would message the restaurant before setting out.
• Order the set, then add the grill. Ordering the mezze individually costs more and gives you less.
• Do not over-order. The set for two genuinely feeds four.
• Leave time for the shisha. It is the second half of the evening here, not a footnote.
• Try the arak once. Watching it turn milky is half the reason.
• Pair it with a Roma Norte walk. Fuego and URSO are both in the same neighbourhood if you want a different kind of grill.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The short from this visit sits above this article once it is published, covering the set, the skewers and the shisha. For everywhere else I have filmed in the city, open my map or browse the rest of the Mexico City recommendations.