Freshly caught fish, grilled or fried using simple techniques and special spices. Add to that sure-shot Arabic cuisine favourites like hummus, fatoush and lentil soup and you have a guaranteed hit. That has been the secret behind the popularity of Bu Tafish restaurant and it has done them good for over half a century.
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00:00As-salamu alaykum jami'a.
00:02When did you come to the Emirates?
00:041968.
00:07Where was your first stop?
00:09Al-Qurnayf, Al-Batid, Al-Batid.
00:13Where did you find me?
00:15Thank you, the Emirates.
00:19My father with my cousin, my uncle,
00:23he's a brother, big brother.
00:25They make the first floating restaurant.
00:30And it was the first restaurant.
00:35All the people, and all the American people, Arab people,
00:41from embassy, from outside, they visit this restaurant.
00:48And when you enter inside, there is a bridge.
00:52Right your hand, lift your hand, my father,
00:54but like aquarium on the sea,
00:57you can choose which fish you want,
01:01and we will catch it for him, and cook it fresh, 100%.
01:05After that, we opened in Hamdan branch,
01:09in Hamdan street, we opened one branch there.
01:12And after we opened in Khalifa City A,
01:15after that we opened in Dubai, in Al-Jumeirah one,
01:19and we opened also in Al-Ayn, in Al-Bawadi mall.
01:23And we opened now in Al-Marasi, Al-Batid.
01:26This is the location, and this is the second location
01:31for the floating restaurant.
01:33The floating restaurant was opposite Emirates Palace.
01:37After we transferred to here, this location,
01:42and you can see the sea outside.
01:44The floating restaurant was there.
01:47And we are three brothers.
01:49We are continuous this business, and it is a family business.
01:55And now, we are looking to go outside
01:59because we are making a franchise,
02:02because a lot of people, they're asking for a franchise
02:05in London, in Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
02:09and also in Egypt, and Turkey.
02:11And inshallah, we are going for that.
02:14And we are looking to have, inshallah,
02:17a lot of branches in all most of countries.
02:21The food, mainly Arabic food, Lebanese,
02:24and traditional food for Emirates food, you know.
02:29We make a lot of kinds of food,
02:32like kan'ad, hamour, shari, shrimps,
02:36and we cook it with Emirates way,
02:41and also Lebanese way, alhamdulillah.
02:44And we have a lot of customers from all of countries, you know,
02:50because we have a secret sauce, okay,
02:55and nobody can do it like us for this one.
02:59And also, we are dealing with a customer like a family.
03:04Why? When I was small, like seven, eight years,
03:08ten years also, I saw now our customer,
03:15they was like 30 years, I am 10 years,
03:19now they are 50 years, I am 30 years, like this.
03:22The continuous for the customer.
03:25Also, the good things, there is, you know,
03:32a soldier and some people,
03:38they came to visit us and playing and catching fish.
03:41Now, mashallah, they are a soldier and the police and the pilot,
03:45and also, almost of people in Abu Dhabi, the local people,
03:51they have a good memory and nice memory with buta fish.
03:55And, you know, the fish, it's main dishes for local and Arabic people,
04:02and we have here, you know, we have ocean and sea,
04:06and all, most of the people, they like to eat it.
04:09It is the main dishes for local people.
04:13They like the fish, and also for the visitors,
04:17and, you know, it gives protein, there is protein,
04:23and the fish, it is very healthy, and all, most people like the fish.
04:28And this is a good point also to sell fish in UAE,
04:36because we have a sea, we have everything fresh.
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