Three Cuts and Carnistore team up on Palm Jumeirah Dubai

Three Cuts, the steakhouse and bar on Rooftop West at Palm Jumeirah Mall, Dubai, now serves a burger made for nobody else. Homegrown butchery and smokehouse Carnistore built a dry-aged beef blend just for this room, and from 6 October it comes with Three Cuts' signature entrecôte sauce and a draft beer, Dubai food magazine nom me reported this week. It replaces the old burger on the Burger & Beers menu, and the first Burger & Beats night was billed with DJ Karrouhat on the decks from 8pm to 10pm.

That is the news. The story is a burger that only makes sense in one place.

The night that could have been anywhere

You know this one. A friend says let's grab a burger. You pick somewhere with a nice terrace. The burger is fine. The music is fine. On the drive home nobody can say what made it that place and not the one down the road, because nothing did.

That is the quiet problem with a lot of nights out in Dubai. Not bad. Just interchangeable. And interchangeable is how a venue gets forgotten by the next weekend.

A blend built for Three Cuts on Palm Jumeirah

nom me says Carnistore did not hand over a standard patty. It worked the recipe out for Three Cuts specifically, from the cuts of beef and the meat-to-fat ratio down to the grind, the texture and the juiciness. Then it met the steakhouse's own entrecôte sauce on the plate.

That is not a menu tweak. That is two homegrown brands sitting down, asking what this room needs, and making it. nom me says Carnistore takes the same bespoke approach with every restaurant it partners with in Dubai, rather than one blend for everyone.

Three Cuts already thinks this way. Its own website calls it a community-based restaurant and describes a music identity that moves through soul, bossa nova, French pop, Italo disco and nu disco from day to night, with a speakeasy tucked inside that wakes up after dark. So when the burger changed, they did not just print a new menu. They booked a DJ and called it Burger & Beats.

What this means for Kattegat buyers and sellers

Buyers, this is the brief worth stealing. Do not ask a venue for their package. Ask what they would make for your night that nobody else gets. A team lunch with a dish that only exists there. A birthday where the set was built for that crowd. A product evening where the room, the food and the music feel planned together, because they were.

Sellers, the lesson is the same from the other side. Carnistore did not earn its place on that menu with a generic patty. It earned it by building something that fits one room. DJs, singers, hosts, caterers and planners can do exactly that. Learn the room. Learn its sound. Then pitch the version of you that belongs there. Two hours on the decks for a burger night is a small booking, but a venue remembers who made its moment feel like its own.

Venues, tell people what is yours. Not the square metres. The blend, the sauce, the playlist, the corner that wakes up at night. That is what someone searching for a real night out is hoping to find.

Kattegat sits in the middle of these meetings. Venues looking for the right people. Talent and suppliers looking for the right rooms. Planners who want a night that could only happen in one place. We built a system so those conversations start with the story, not the price list.

Before you go

nom me says the collaboration runs for a limited time and lists Burger & Beers Monday to Saturday from noon until 7pm. Three Cuts' website lists opening from 5pm Monday to Thursday and from 11am Friday to Sunday, so call +971 4 420 1113 and check the hours before you head over. Park near Lobby 4 at Palm Jumeirah Mall, follow the Rooftop West signs and take the lift up. The restaurant is on the left.

Then ask the question that matters. What here is made only for this room?

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Source. nom me magazine, Carnistore and Three Cuts Team Up for Burger and Beats, by Zainab Ali, 6 October 2026. kattegat.app/s/Aaw7Sms

Also Three Cuts, official website. kattegat.app/s/xrinU65

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