Rasha is an independent Moroccan companion based in Dubai who joins you for dinner: a table in the Marina, DIFC, Downtown or your own hotel restaurant, and conversation that carries the evening. For residents and visiting guests who would rather not eat alone. Social companionship only, and the fee is for her time and company, agreed privately before the evening.
Dubai Marina for the water and the later service, DIFC for the dining rooms that fill with people who have just left the office, Downtown for the view, Palm Jumeirah for a quiet terrace. She knows which rooms are loud, which are kind to a conversation, and which look better in November than in July. Name the restaurant if you have one in mind; if you have not, say what kind of evening you want and she will suggest two or three.
She arrives at the time agreed, dressed for the room rather than for attention. Dinner runs the length dinner runs — two hours, three if the conversation is good — and she is a guest at the table, not a performance at it. She asks about your work without interrogating you, remembers the names you mentioned in the car, and is the easiest person in the room to introduce to someone you did not expect to meet.
Nine o'clock is a normal reservation here and the room is better for it; eight feels early in most hotel restaurants. If you are flying in the same day, a later table gives you an hour to change and arrive unhurried. In Ramadan the whole evening shifts; ask and she will tell you what the city is doing that week.
Dubai's hotels are used to guests entertaining. She will meet you in the lobby lounge, at the restaurant entrance, or at the table itself if you would rather arrive separately — whichever you say when you write. Nothing about the arrangement is announced to anyone, and nothing is photographed.
The date, the occasion and the venue if you have one: three honest sentences are more use than a long form. If there are other guests, say who they are and in which language they would like to be greeted — she speaks Arabic, English and French. A day or two of notice is comfortable for dinner; weekends and the season's big evenings go first.
Rasha is 27, of Moroccan heritage, and has lived in Dubai for several years. Arabic, English and French; warm rather than performed; and discreet by habit, not as a selling point. Read her story.
The Marina, JBR, DIFC, Downtown, Business Bay, Palm Jumeirah and the Jumeirah hotel strip are all ordinary for her. Further out — Al Barsha, Festival City, Abu Dhabi — is a matter of notice, not of willingness.
She can suggest a restaurant and she knows how the better rooms work, but the reservation stays in your name. Nothing is paid through this site and no bill is handled on your behalf.
As long as dinner takes, agreed loosely in advance so neither of you is watching a clock. If you want the evening to continue to a lounge afterwards, say so when you write rather than at the table.
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