Dubai Rating

Dubai Rating · season 2024–2025

Best city community

A new rating nomination — Best City Community. It is especially close to our hearts, because DZCH itself began as an idea of a community of like-minded people who want to develop the city and grow themselves.

11–25 December68 nominees7 categories

This time our task is no easier than with the entrepreneurs in the previous nomination: there are hundreds, if not thousands, of communities in Dubai. So, as before, we opened nominations to everyone: just write to the rating's Telegram bot.

Voting is as easy as ever: you can vote for as many nominees as you like, but only once for each. To make choosing easier we split the nominees into categories — winners in each category and overall are decided by a simple majority of votes.

Categories

Nominees with photos

Part of the shortlist with photos. The full list is below, by category.

Shortlist by category

The shortlist was put together by the DZCH editorial team and club, with input from friends who have lived in Dubai for a long time. Rating users also suggested their own nominees — you can do it too via our Telegram bot.

Business

Professional chats and clubs

Women

Chats, clubs and meetups on women's topics

Family

For mums, and for families in general

Sport

Communities built around any sport: padel, tennis, golf, sailing

Hobbies

Hobbies that bring people together: from chess clubs to gardening enthusiasts

Local

Communities of a district, a street or even a single building

Other interests

Everyone who did not fit the other categories

Nomination partner

KED and Istanbul

KED (Kitchen Every Day) is stylish street food with Russian shawarma and great coffee in the Marina.

Istanbul is a bistro in the Marina with affordable prices, hookahs, Russian-Turkish cuisine and regular Russian-language events, from chess tournaments to business breakfasts.

Both cafés are close in spirit to the DZCH nomination: they host events that bring people together, you'll often meet Russian speakers there, and the food is affordable yet stylish. The restaurants are run by Andrey Merzhalilov, a businessman who made the top 10 Russian-speaking entrepreneurs with the most public support in the previous Dubai Rating nomination.

Partner website

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