Developed by Meraas in Al Safa, City Walk is the closest Dubai gets to a walkable urban retail strip — low-rise, human-scale, outside, with restaurants spilling onto wide pavements and flagship stores you can walk between without entering a car park.

The concept travels well from cities that have always had streets. In Dubai it feels like a statement. In summer it is genuinely unpleasant after 10am, which is not a design flaw so much as a climatic reality that the rest of the city has simply built around.

Good food options. A cinema. A younger, more urban crowd than the indoor malls. Popular with residents who find the big malls overstimulating.