Bonci open at City Centre Mirdif Dubai

Bonci open at City Centre Mirdif Dubai

Bonci is open at Chef’s Society inside City Centre Mirdif. Dubai Edited reported the story on 16 September. UAE News 24/7 carried the same press dated 15 September. The room is Gabriele Bonci’s Roman pizza al taglio with a full Italian sit-down menu around it, brought to the UAE by Culinary Loft Restaurant LLC. Doors run daily from 9am to midnight, with prices from AED 50.

This is not a tease for next season. Mirdif has a named Italian room people can book today, and the story is dough, trays, scissors, and a table that holds more than a slice.

Two ways to take the pizza

Bonci Dubai keeps the classic Roman al taglio ritual at the counter. Large rectangular trays sit on display. You pick the variety and the portion. Staff cut with scissors, weigh the slice, and price it by weight for eat-in or takeaway.

At the table, diners order from a set menu of pizzas made fresh to size. Same kitchen. Different rhythm. One side suits a mall walk and a quick hold. The other suits a lunch that turns into a longer Italian night. Buyers who brief “casual Italian with a story” finally have both formats under one roof in Mirdif.

The dough is the jeopardy and the hero

What separates Bonci starts before the toppings. Press names a proprietary flour blend and a 48-hour fermentation. The crust is airy inside, crisp outside, and deeper in flavour than a rush dough. Guests can watch the pizzaiolo stretch and shape at a live pizza station, set against a colourful run of freshly baked al taglio trays.

Gabriele Bonci opened Pizzarium in Rome in 2003 and helped turn pizza al taglio from a Roman everyday staple into a craft people travel for. Press still calls him the Michelangelo of Pizza. He was featured in Netflix’s Chef’s Table Pizza. His line in the write-ups is simple. We are not pizza. We are philosophy.

That is the emotional problem for Dubai buyers who are tired of interchangeable Italian menus. The hero is the guest who wants the dough story, not another pepperoni spreadsheet. The facilitator is a marketplace that surfaces rooms by that story, not by amenity bullets alone.

Beyond the slice

Bonci Dubai is built as a broader Italian dining room. Press lists breakfast, starters, salads, desserts, fresh pasta, and Italian mains. Named pizza standouts include Genovese Ragù and Potato and Parmigiano. Pasta lines include Truffle and Mushroom. Mains include Chicken Cacciatore and Milanese-style cutlets. Tomato-base and white-base pizzas sit beside combinations built around eggplant, zucchini, onion, or potato.

City Centre Mirdif puts the room inside a mall people already use for family days, after-school stops, and easy meet-ups. UAE News 24/7 notes this is the brand’s first Middle East address. That matters for planners who need a Mirdif-side Italian with a founder name attached, not another anonymous corner.

What this means for Kattegat buyers and sellers

Buyers, this is a story you feel before you open a rate card. City Centre Mirdif. Chef’s Society. Roman al taglio with scissors and weight. A sit-down Italian menu with named plates. Daily from 9am to midnight. When the brief is Italian comfort east of the Marina and Palm loop, you now have doors that are open and a dough story you can tell the table.

Sellers, read the floor. Live pizza station. Counter and dining room. Breakfast through late night. Pasta and mains beside the trays. That is work for dough teams, floor hosts, and F&B talent who know how to hold a mall rush without losing the craft.

Kattegat sits in the middle. Venues need people who show up. Talent needs rooms that book. Planners need one place where both sides tell the story straight, not forty WhatsApp threads named final.

We did not invent Dubai hospitality. We turned the trade we already live into a system buyers and sellers can run from the pocket. Nights and lunches like this in Mirdif are why the marketplace exists.

Book the trays, book the table

If you are locking a Mirdif Italian lunch, a family pizza night, or a counter takeaway that still carries a founder story, start with the room and the dough, not capacity alone.

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Source. Dubai Edited, Bonci, Rome’s Pizza al Taglio Icon, Opens a Full Italian Restaurant in Dubai. https://dubaiedited.ae/bonci-romes-pizza-al-taglio-icon-opens-a-full-italian-restaurant-in-dubai/

Also UAE News 24/7, Rome’s Cult Favourite Bonci Brings a Full Italian Dining Experience to Dubai. https://uaenews247.com/2026/09/16/romes-cult-favourite-bonci-brings-a-full-italian-dining-experience-to-dubai/

Kayzar Floki, The Builder. Follow @kayzar.floki, @verou.poli, @kattegat.app.