LUNE · Second Light, Al Wasl Road, Dubai
01
The Place
- Al Wasl Road
- Jumeirah 2
- Dubai
From the road, LUNE reads as one object: a cream cylinder with the wordmark lit across it, and beneath it a rough grey hemisphere, hung low enough that you walk under the curve to get in. It is the whole identity, built in plaster and stone rather than printed on a sign.
02
The Room
A rock moon, slung under a lit drum.
Inside, the walls carry on the idea. The surfaces are moulded into crater ridges and lit from behind the lip, so the room is edged in warm light and the texture does the decorating. Rattan chairs, pale stone tables, an olive tree at the door. Nothing glossy, nothing that glows.
Around thirty covers indoors · Two floors
04 · FIRST FLOOR · OPEN AIR · FROM 17:00
The Terrace
DubaiAfter dark
Two floors. Around thirty covers indoors, fifty at most across the building, which is why the queue outside is a real thing rather than a marketing story. Upstairs is open air, facing Downtown. The Burj sits in the gap between the buildings opposite.
03
The List
Coffee
- 01V60 EthiopiaPrice at the counter
Cold
- 02Iced Spanish LattePrice at the counter
Patisserie
- 03San Sebastián CheesecakePrice at the counter
- 04Tiramisu RollPrice at the counter
- 05Milk Chocolate CrullerPrice at the counter
- 06Aseeda FondantPrice at the counter
Prices at the counter · The kitchen runs until one
CoffeeV60 Ethiopia
Aseeda
- 01Semolina
- 02Ghee
- 03Date
Aseeda is semolina, ghee, and date syrup, worked until it holds its own shape: a sweet most people at this latitude grew up eating at home, not in a café.
LUNE plates it as a fondant: the same three ingredients, the same ratio a grandmother would recognise, set inside a French pâtissier’s mould and finished under glaze. Nothing about the recipe changed. Only the technique used to hold it.
05 · Your table at LUNE