Sample Event
La Mer Night Market
Independent food stalls and makers on the beachfront every Friday evening. Free to walk in.
- 6pm
- Jumeirah
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Eat well on a student budget.
Food festivals, night markets, tastings and student-priced brunches around Dubai that are worth the trip.
About this list
Eating well in Dubai on a student budget is a logistics problem, and food events are the shortcut: night markets, food truck festivals, community kitchens and tasting evenings where a full meal costs less than a delivery order.
Listed here are the markets and festivals running now, with the area, the opening hours and what entry costs, which for most of them is nothing.
3 listed 3 areas of Dubai
What is on
Soonest first. Open any of them for the full time, venue, price and who is running it.
Sample Event
d3 Food Truck Festival
Forty trucks across Dubai Design District. Free entry, and most plates are under AED 35.
- 5pm
- d3
FreeDubai Design District
Sample Event
Ripe Market Student Sunday
Farmers market, live music and brunch plates under AED 40. Free entry with a student ID.
- 9am
- Al Barsha South
FreeDubai Student Socials
Other kinds of student event in Dubai
Free events24 Campus & Societies5 Nightlife & Social3 Career & Networking6 Workshops & Skills4 Sports & Fitness6 Experiences & Days Out6 Music & Festivals3 Arts & Culture3
Questions students actually ask
The things people search for before they turn up.
Browse every eventThere are 3 listed at the moment, each with the date, time, venue, price and organiser on its own page. The list is ordered soonest first, so whatever is at the top is what is happening next.
Yes, 3 of the 3 cost nothing to attend. The rest are priced at student rates, and the price is on the card before you click.
Any student in Dubai, unless a listing says otherwise. Campus events are sometimes limited to that university or need a student there to sign you in, and where that applies it is stated on the event page. Age limits, where they exist, are listed too.
New food events and markets are added as organisers submit them and as university societies publish their terms, and events drop off the list once they have happened. Register and you get told what is coming up rather than having to check.