United Arab Emirates

The 360° bar is set on a circular platform off the coast with, as the name suggests, a 360-degree view from the Jumeirah Palm on one side round to Port...more

A city hot spot, 400 Club has a Baroque-style interior and an extremely long line of dressed-up hopefuls waiting to get in. One of the venue's best tables...more

This popular, dimly lit wine bar is primarily patronized by vinophiles, banking boys, and the pretty girls trying to attract them. The well-heeled crowd make a...more

Part of the designer-branded hotel and a haunt of the VIP set, Armani Prive, on the ground floor of the Burj Khalifa, offers three spaces: an outdoor veranda...more

One of the most expensive nightclubs ever built, the $30-million Cavalli Club, on two floors of the Fairmont Hotel, consists of three leopard-print lounges...more

This Dubai outpost of the famous Beirut Crystal nightclub is always packed with Lebanese lotharios trying to recapture the spirit of their homeland. Music is a...more

The pyramid-shaped Raffles Hotel looks less like an ancient monument than the set for the film Stargate transplanted to the Arabian desert. At the top, beneath...more

Wine racks line the walls of this low-lit, chichi bar. Cin Cin is a good but expensive option for indulging in a pre- or postprandial drink any night of the...more

Literally underground, in the basement of the Dhow Palace Hotel in gritty Bur Dubai, Submarine opened in November 2007 and immediately became Dubai's dance hot...more

At Mahalika Café, on the fourth floor of a seedy but lively Karama district hotel, a Filipino cover band belts out eerily accurate facsimiles of any...more