Frequently asked questions

Moonlight Investments is a Dubai-based hospitality group established in 2022. It specialises in hospitality management and concept development, and creates, operates and manages homegrown concepts in lifestyle dining, franchise and café formats. It also runs events and provides services to hotels. Its best-known brand is MYA. Its venues include MYA Dubai, AMAYA Lounge Erbil and AMAYA Baghdad, with a café opening in Cairo.

Moonlight Investments offers hospitality development, concept and brand development, operations and management, and franchise and expansion management. It also runs events and provides services to hotels. The group is based in Dubai and is best known for MYA.

Yes. Moonlight Investments runs events, and MYA Dubai at The Dubai Mall hosts corporate events and private dining. Call +971 4 587 1000 or email reservation@myadubai.com for MYA Dubai, or info@moonlightinvestments.com for other events.

Yes. Moonlight Investments provides hospitality services to hotels, drawing on the concept development and operating experience behind MYA. Hotels can enquire at info@moonlightinvestments.com.

MYA is owned and operated by Moonlight Investments, a Dubai hospitality group. The group opened MYA Dubai at The Dubai Mall in 2022, then AMAYA Lounge Erbil in 2025 and AMAYA Baghdad in 2026. MYA Cafe Cairo opens in Mivida, New Cairo, in January 2027, and MYA Saudi is in development.

Moonlight Investments is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The group was founded there in 2022 and runs its flagship, MYA Dubai, from The Dubai Mall in Downtown Dubai. Its portfolio now extends to Iraq and Egypt, with Saudi Arabia in development. Qatar, Switzerland and London are coming soon.

Moonlight Investments operates in Dubai, Erbil and Baghdad, and opens in Cairo in January 2027. That covers the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Egypt. MYA Saudi, an underwater fine-dining concept inspired by Dubai's pearl-diving heritage and One Night MYA are in development. Qatar, Switzerland and London are coming soon, and One Night MYA starts in Switzerland. The group is based in Dubai.

Moonlight Investments develops restaurant concepts, plans and opens venues, and runs them day to day. That covers brand identity, menu direction, design, pre-opening, recruitment, training and operating standards. The group applies this model to its own venues, to partners who want to open a Moonlight concept in their market, and to hotels it works with. It also runs events.

Yes. Franchise is one of the group's segments, alongside lifestyle dining, café concepts, events and hotel services. Moonlight Investments works with partners who know their local market and supports them with the brand, documented standards, pre-opening planning, training and ongoing operational oversight. Enquiries go to info@moonlightinvestments.com.

Yes. Moonlight Investments welcomes approaches from landlords and developers with dining space in the region. The group brings an established brand with a flagship at The Dubai Mall and a full operating model. Send site details through the Partnerships page or to info@moonlightinvestments.com.

MYA Dubai, the flagship of Moonlight Investments, has direct views of Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Fountain. It is on the 1st Floor of The Dubai Mall, on the Waterfalls side, in Downtown Dubai. It serves creative fusion cuisine and premium signature shisha from breakfast to dinner. Bookings are on +971 4 587 1000.

Yes. The restaurant on the 1st Floor of The Dubai Mall, Waterfalls side, was previously called Amaya and now trades as MYA Dubai. It is operated by Moonlight Investments and remains the group's flagship, with views of Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Fountain.

MYA Dubai is the flagship restaurant and shisha lounge at The Dubai Mall, serving breakfast to dinner. MYA Cafe Cairo is a more relaxed, all-day café in Mivida, New Cairo, opening January 2027. It focuses on breakfast, brunch, coffee and desserts, is alcohol-free and has outdoor seating.