Fitch Rates Garden Coffe[sic] Shop 'A'

Fitch Ratings has today assigned Garden Coffee[sic] Shop in Abu Dhabi an 'A' rating. While Garden is mainly a shisha place--food can be had by ordering from outside establishments--it is a justifiably popular café with people in the neighborhood despite the obvious-yet-in-the-end-charming misspelling of "coffee" on its large red-and-white sign.

Garden's shisha is not the best in the world (or in Abu Dhabi, for that matter), and shish quality can vary considerably from night to night, ranging from hard-to-draw-on with minimal smokiness to an easy inhaling experience with thick, rich smoke. Still, it is a cheap and comfortable spot: the Dh10 shish is definitely worth the price.

"Garden's shisha highlights its continued strength in challenging global eating conditions and its relative resilience, so far, to the tastiness crunch," says J.T. Fitch, Head of Emerging Vegetables in Fitch's ratings team. "Nevertheless, Garden faces a challenging near-term outlook given the variable quality of its offerings."

The shish:


Hamdi, the Garden Coffe[sic] Shop shishmaster!



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