Dear, Now, our iPhone, Android and Blackberry user can access the menu pages, as we published it on our mobile interface. Fill your stomache, wherever you are. Thank you, Michael

on http://www.places.ae/menus! Hi hungry places.ae users, After digitizing the menus we had on the previous version, we put a more user friendly and easier to navigate menus. Bon appetite! Thank you, Michael

Dear all, We might have minimal domain problems in the next few minutes, as we are changing to a new email provider. In 99% of the time, you won’t notice a thing. Thank you, Michael

Hi all, Seems that we had some issues with captcha’s being cached.. This was giving “Error creating comments” errors. This should be solved now! Thanks, Michael

After a mere 3 months of development, 1 month of usability and stress testing, we’re proud to announce the new and complete rewritten places.ae. It was a thorough rewrite, whereby we decided which code and functionality to keep, and which to throw away. The team sat together, outlined it all, developed, re-developed, and finally put [...]

Dear all, 10 January, 2008, exactly 3 years ago today, we pushed the first version of places.ae onto the Internet, and then went for a beer. Many changes since then, and still more changes to come. I was actually hoping we’d be finished with the development of the completely revamped version, done testing and be [...]

Dear all, Quick note to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2011 coming up. We’re a few days late, but were travelling in South Asia. Thanks, Michael

Dear all, ‘T is the season to be jolly. It’s that time of the year again; Santa Claus, chrismas carols, times for new year resolutions and lot of attempts to stop smoking and lose a few pounds. This year, 50% of places.ae’s workforce will be going to do charity work with PEPY in Cambodia over [...]

After our small “unavailability” on Du networks, we’re back online!

It seems that places.ae is currently blocked if you are accessing the Internet using Du. All Etisalat customers dont’ seem to be affected (yet). We raised this with Du, and hope it will be resolved soon. We apologize for this inconvenience. Guess somebody left a less-than-perfect remark on one of Du’s customer service shops Edit: [...]