The Ned Doha

Hotel restaurant

Millie’s Grill is the hotel’s all-day brasserie where pendant lights and booth-side lamps bring a warm glow to a convivial dining room kitted out with veined marble, curvaceous booths and ochre-hued upholstery. The globetrotting menu centres around the grill, with mains such as dover sole with capers and brown butter, Wagyu rib-eye, lobster thermidor and Tasmanian lamb. But this is also a spot to enjoy brunch (shakshuka, avo on toast, full English) or afternoon tea (tiered stands of individual desserts, mini cakes and scones). Asian-Pacific plates star at Kaia – a smart den of russet wood and olive upholstery (open for lunch and dinner); it features a dedicated sushi menu, mains such as crispy aromatic duck, black cod with tarragon miso and sesame teriyaki salmon, plus poké bowls, and small plates (steamed dumplings, miso aubergine, Japanese fried chicken) to accompany cocktails including tequila-laced Picante de Casa and cooling Eastern Standard. Dressed like a modish Milanese trattoria in peacock blue and polished wood, Cecconi’s has Italian food for all levels of hunger (from noon till night): cicchetti and negronis for apéro hour; hall-of-fame secondi such as chicken parmigiana and veal milanese; salads and starters for the undecided, and pizza and pasta for when only carbs will do. Its accompanying wine list has a commendable Italian bias. Courtyard-set Hadika is a Levantine garden restaurant open for lunch and dinner, serving mezze hot and cold, salads and grills. For shakes, burgers, fries, bagels and cheesecake, seek out a red-leather booth at all-American Electric Diner (closed Sundays). Vegan burgers, tofu with cauliflower couscous, and sea bass tacos are typical of the health-focused, Californian-style fare you’ll find at air-conditioned terrace restaurant Malibu Kitchen (across the way from the pool): if the smoothies and salads don’t grab you, perhaps the thought of Cali-themed cocktails on a couch in the shade just might. As well as live music, the Nickel Lounge serves up casual American comfort food including lobster rolls, hot dogs and club sandwiches, as well as travel-inspired tipples to Atrium-Stage-side tables (we like the sound of an England-referencing Pound made with Earl Grey syrup and Pimm’s). Overlooking West Bay and the Amiri Diwan, Ned’s Club Upstairs is the hotel’s members-only lounge, lavishly appointed with oversized chandeliers and Seventies-glamorous furnishings: line up crab cakes or tuna crudo followed by burgers, aged tomahawk or citrus chicken, or opt to graze on pizzette, croquettes or oysters by the half dozen. 

Hotel bar

 A handful of the Ned Doha’s restaurants double as lounge spots where you’re free to forgo dinner for drinks only: the Nickel Lounge with its geography-toting cocktail list and calendar of live music is the most obvious of these; but Malibu Kitchen has low-slung sofas alfresco plus an impressive optics-run of spirits, mai-tais and mocktails, and bottled beers. The choice of wines by the glass at Cecconi’s puts it in pole position for pre- or post-dinner drinks, and there are themed evenings at Kaia when the mood is more cocktails and light bites than full-on feasting. Last bar standing is always the ebullient Ned’s Club Upstairs: maybe it’s the choice of sours and spritzes, the beer on draught or the wealth of whiskies, gins and rums; possibly it’s the bird’s-eye city views twinkling to the horizon, but certainly it’s the convivial atmosphere and classically dressed, lamp-lit tables that secure its night-owl status.

Last orders

Millie’s Grill is open 6am–midnight; members-only Ned’s Club Upstairs, 9am–1am; for Cecconi’s, Hadika and Kaia, you can dine from noon till midnight; Malibu Kitchen and Electric Diner are open noon until 11pm. The Nickel Bar opens at 8am until midnight.

Room service

You can order food and drinks to your room around the clock.