In the heart of Abu Dhabi, Marmellata started as a small family-run project and quickly became a local sensation.

Abu Dhabi

Marmalata, a pizzeria established in Abu Dhabi in 2019, was created by owner Raj as a place for his children to work, though he now runs it himself. The restaurant has become a hub for community, attracting a diverse clientele interested in unique experiences and authentic connections.

The pizzeria focuses on using local ingredients and traditional flatbread techniques, aiming to provide high-quality food while supporting the local ecosystem. Located in the Mina area, which Raj describes as the 'last slice of old Abu Dhabi,' Marmalata has garnered awards for its pizza and hospitality, and continues to grow alongside the evolving city.

The pizzeria serving a slice of the old Abu Dhabi

You come to our restaurant and you find that there's a lot of people that are interested in community and that are interested in doing things that are out of the ordinary. Yalla, come! It's beyond the ordinary, for sure. Hi, I'm Raj. Hi! Hi, I'm Raj. This is Marmalata. Our most famous... Hi, I'm Raj. Welcome to Marmalata. My most favorite restaurant in all the world. I opened Marmalata in 2019 because I wanted a place for my kids to work. It backfired. I'm working and they're off enjoying the world. Seeing us suffer, seeing us win, seeing us fail, it adds layers of complexity to our relationship. It isn't just father and children anymore. It's colleagues and it's boss and employee and it's co-worker and it's teamwork. It's a really beautiful thing. It's more than just food and putting great food on the table. Restaurants are where revolutions are born and marriages are made and catastrophes happen before they happen. We've won a lot of awards for the pizza, for the hospitality. And so it's become this family of friends and pirates and wild, wild, wild people. We're a destination restaurant. People are choosing to come out to join us to eat dinner. There were so many people in the old days that just never drove past the Toys R Us down here. But it's a very historical place. It's a very, very physically beautiful place and it attracts outsiders. It attracts wanderers. And so it's a natural fit. Pizza is universal. It's a flatbread. And I feel like everyone either has a relationship to flatbread from being in this country or they've come from somewhere else and they have a connection to flatbread. So there's this level of intensity that comes with it. It's made by people that live here, for people that are here now with ingredients that are as far as we can do, be local as possible. If you choose the right products, the work is already done. Choosing things that are abundant, choosing things that are high quality, choosing things that are being produced by people who care about what they're doing is fundamental to our style of cooking. And being a part of that ecosystem is everything to do with food. So the difference is the people. Everything else is the same. You know, you can come here and each guy will grab you and he's offering you the exact same produce. But this guy will troll through all of it until he finds the best for us. Mmm. Really good. Really good. Mina's our choice because it felt like the last slice of old Abu Dhabi. It felt very authentic in the way that it wasn't being curated. I never had the fear that people wouldn't find the romance in this place because I found it. And I feel like people who come here are looking for adventure. I was afraid of being humiliated in front of my children that I'd open a pizzeria and nobody would come. We're growing in parallel with this city. And I don't think we could do that without the city's interest in becoming that city. So I think there's a parallel and I'm proud to be part of that.

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