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90 RESTAURANTS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS AT DUBAI FESTIVAL CITY  Dubai is set to become home to the Middle East’s largest collection of al-fresco waterfront dining venues? with more than 90 world class restaurants offering something for every taste and budget at the unique ‘urban retail resort’, Festival Centre, schedule to open in October 2006. ? Dubai Festival City revealed that at least 20 new-to-market international brands.? In addition, a number of high-end restaurants are planned within Festival with over 2,500 rooms, and boasts world-renowned brands such as InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, W Hotels, and Four Seasons Hotels Resorts. ? Each of the properties will boast a stunning collection of restaurants such as Lebanon’s top seafood restaurant, Sultan ‘Brahim, the first outside of Beirut; Café de la Paix; and Edamame, a stunning Japanese restaurant with a new concept developed exclusively by top Tokyo designer firm, Super Potato, for the InterContinental Dubai Festival City. ? A host of other regional brands will be making their Gulf debut, including Scoozi, the pioneering Italian restaurant with a unique sushi conveyor belt system; top Iranian restaurant brand, Isfahan; Waterlemon, the chic art deco international restaurant; and Café Blanc, the contemporary Lebanese restaurant with ‘designer’ shisha. ? In addition, Dubai Festival City has pulled in brands from further a field such as the United Kingdom’s Steam Some Dim Sum, which has taken London by storm; Morelli’s Gelato, one of Harrods in Knightsbridge’s most popular outlets; top Mexican restaurant, On the Border; a ‘flagship factory’ store for world-renowned doughnut and coffee house, Krispy Kreme; top espresso bar, Illy Café; and popular American/Italian brand, Macaroni Grill, from the USA. ? Many of the restaurants, cafés and fast food outlets will front the 2.6 million square feet retail, entertainment and leisure focal point, Festival Centre, in three, separately-themed pavilions and a meandering Canal