Sum of Us

Downtown Dubai


This two-floor industrial-style and plant-filled cafe with outdoor seating roasts its own beans, bakes its own sourdough bread and serves food that is at once comforting and exciting. All-day breakfast choices include French toast with salted caramel sauce, while the cauliflower risotto makes for an interesting main dish.


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Nearby Downtown Dubai attractions

1. World Trade Centre

0.24 MILES

Compared to its cloud-touching cousins, the 149m-high World Trade Centre seems small today, but when completed in 1979 was actually Dubai's first…

2. Dubai Street Museum

0.61 MILES

In 2016, 16 local and international street artists, including Hua Tunan, Ashwaq Abdulla and Inkman, mounted their cherry-pickers to turn the rather drab…

3. Zabeel Park

0.67 MILES

This sprawling park, where lots of palms and other greenery provide plenty of shade, is a weekend family favourite. It brims with activity zones,…

4. 2nd December St

0.71 MILES

Quiet by day, 2nd December St turns into one of Dubai’s liveliest walking strips after dark with plenty of fine pickings for street-food aficionados…

5. Emirates Towers

0.86 MILES

Although neither the tallest nor the newest skyscrapers in Dubai, the twin, triangular towers coated with silver-coated aluminium panels and topped with…

6. Dubai Frame

1.01 MILES

Opened in January 2018, this 150m rectangular 'picture frame' sits in Zabeel Park, right between historic and modern Dubai, and provides grand views of…

7. Gate Village

1.09 MILES

Two wooden bridges link the massive Dubai International Finance Centre to Gate Village, a modernist cluster of 10 midrise stone-clad towers built around…

8. Opera Gallery

1.09 MILES

More an art showroom than a classically curated gallery, Opera caters to collectors of artistic heavyweights in genres as varied as pop art, calligraphy…