Moonlight Investments is a Dubai hospitality group. We develop hospitality projects, create concepts and brands, run them day to day and take them into new markets.
We develop hospitality projects from the first assessment of a site or market to a venue that is ready to open, for our own brands and with partners.
Our approach starts with the guest and the location. We look at who the venue will serve, how they will use it and which of our formats fits, before design work begins.
Our portfolio is built around lifestyle dining and café formats, with a destination fine-dining concept in development. We focus on markets where a brand can grow over time: today the UAE, Iraq and Egypt, with Saudi Arabia in development and Qatar, Switzerland and London coming soon.
How we assess an opportunityWe create hospitality concepts and the brands around them: the identity, the guest promise and the commercial position that give guests a reason to return.
Every concept begins with a clear answer to who the guest is, why they will come and what they will remember. From there we set the brand identity, the menu direction, the service style and the format.
The group shows how this works. One approach runs as a flagship restaurant in Dubai, a lounge in Erbil, premium dining in Baghdad and, from January 2027, an all-day café in Cairo.
What it includesWe run venues day to day against written standards, so the guest experience holds from one shift to the next and from one city to the next.
Standards, training and systems are set before opening. After that the work is daily: service, food quality, cost control and guest feedback, all measured against the same standards.
The team and standards behind our venues also run events and support hotels.
What it includesMoonlight Investments also runs events, planned and delivered by the same team and service standards behind our venues.
In Dubai, MYA at The Dubai Mall hosts corporate events and private dining with views of Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Fountain. For MYA Dubai, call +971 4 587 1000 or email reservation@myadubai.com. For other events, write to info@moonlightinvestments.com.
We provide hospitality services to hotels, bringing the concept and operating experience we use to run our own brands.
For a hotel, that can mean a dining or lounge concept, the standards and training behind it, or support before and after opening.
MYA Dubai has hosted product launches, wellness activations and Ramadan gatherings with brands including Nike, NUXE and lululemon.See MYA's brand collaborations
We take our brands into new markets, with franchise partners who know their city or through venues we open ourselves, and manage that growth over time.
A franchise partner brings local knowledge, licensing and the site. We bring a brand proven at The Dubai Mall, documented standards and the support to open well.
Before entering a market we review the location, the audience and the right format, then plan the opening and what follows it. The group has grown this way from Dubai to Erbil and Baghdad, with Cairo next.
What it includesMoonlight Investments works in four areas: 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.
Moonlight Investments looks at the location and its guest traffic, how well the market suits the concept, the experience of the local partner and the long-term balance between lease terms and investment. Each opportunity is reviewed with the partner before a format is agreed.
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.
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