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Salmon Guru

Dubai, UAE · Theatrical multisensory cocktail and dining bar · Middle East & Africa

Salmon Guru Dubai is Diego Cabrera’s Business Bay outpost, translating the Madrid original’s irreverent, multisensory cocktails into a vivid Dubai setting and pairing them with food built from Madrid traditions and modern technique.

Description source · Checked 2026-09-20

Plan Your Visit

The Opus by Omniyat - 803 Al A'amal St - Business Bay - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Style
Theatrical multisensory cocktail and dining barChecked 2026-09-20 · Source
Hours
Daily 12:30pm–2am.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source
Booking
The owner provides online table reservations through Eat App and separately publishes telephone and WhatsApp contacts for enquiries.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source
Menu
The owner site shows named signature cocktails and links a current itemized February 2026 food menu.Checked 2026-09-20 · Source

Hours and menus can change. Check the venue’s latest details before visiting.

The score & its evidence

Seven signals. One score.

24.7 / 100

The composite combines the seven weighted signals and the published adjustments. The chart shows each signal before weighting.

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Signal / 100Score
Guest ratings
63.5
World's 50 Best
—None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
Top 500 Bars
50.8
Spirited Awards
—None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
Regional Recognition
—None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
Serious press
6.4
Social Vibes
60.2

Weights: Guest ratings 23% · World's 50 Best 12% · Top 500 Bars 10% · Spirited 12% · Regional Recognition 18% · Press 10% · Social Vibes 15%

Missing evidence, confirmed none and evidence outside a scoring window each contribute zero. We do not redistribute their fixed weight to other signals.

Social Vibes

Score read updated:

positive2 cited sources; source types shown below· high confidence

Sentiment score

86/ 100

The historical score and confidence have not been reassessed by this source check.

Score context

The stored read describes Salmon Guru Dubai’s theatrical drinks and high-energy setting. The readable citation is an assessed guide with an anonymous reviewer; the Time Out article was unavailable.

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Guest score details

Highlights in the earlier read

  • theatrical glassware
  • quirky laboratory drinks
  • Opus setting
  • value lunch and brunch

Cautions in the earlier read

  • loud and busy nights
  • menu can confuse first-timers
  • not a quiet tasting bar

The stored excerpt could not be independently verified as an attributable passage from the readable source text at this check. The original evidence remains preserved.

This read cites editorial or award context. Those links are distinct from guest accounts; only the reviewed links in Reviews & press count toward Press.

Editorial citations in this read

  • timeoutdubai.compress

    The Time Out Dubai article could not be read at this check; its stored quotation and date remain unverified. The stored 26 September 2022 date and quotation were not authenticated because the Time Out Dubai body was unavailable.

Award & ranking citations in this read

  • thepinnacleguide.compinnacle

    The Pinnacle Guide describes its assessed Dubai bar and quotes an anonymous guide reviewer. This is a guide assessment, not a customer-review panel; the review date was not visible. The Pinnacle Guide’s exact Dubai page contains an anonymous assessed-review quotation but no visible publication or review date. The stored 22 September 2025 date remains unverified.

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Crowd signal

Google 4.4★ across 447 reviews.

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Awards

Results from the three global systems scored separately in our formula.

Regional Recognition

Regional and national lists, local awards and bartender peer picks considered for this room's Regional Recognition score. The strongest result from each program and year scores; assessed guides use the latest accepted dated status once.

No recorded regional recognition in the scored window.

Reviews & press