We hope there are many more fun carnival days to come with The Arcadia Prepatory school here in JVT.
If you are reading this on Friday afternoon, there is still time to come down before 7pm and enjoy a game, grab a free burger or get a refreshing ice lollie all compliments of Arcadia.
Thanks to our new future neighborhood school!
Today, I have just discovered the delights that await in the Nutcracker boutique. I couldn’t resist sharing this with you all as you start your weekend.
Drop in to indulge in the many treats on offer at The Nutcracker.
I hope to offer you all an exclusive interview with the owner who it just so happens is one of our own, a JVT resident too! More to come for sure on this sweet little spot in the Triangle.
Pictured above is a delightful raspberry cheesecake.
Family Fun Friday on March 4th
Pompeii Warrior is a great new service for anyone trying to count their calories and manage their weight. Prepared and packaged just next door in Jumeirah Village Circle, you can expect truly fresh produce delivered right to your door.
When I heard about this new service, I decided that I had to check it out for you!
Just back from a visit to the Pompeii restaurant, I got a behind the scenes look at the food preparation. I also had the chance to chat with the restaurant manager to understand the service better.
It is straightforward and hassle-free. Simply log onto their website and select the monthly meal plan to suit your needs. You start with an easy-to-do calculation which will indicate your recommended daily calorie intake. Then you have only one choice to make: should they deliver meals for 5, 6 or 7 days out of the week !
The meal plan provides the number of calories you selected over breakfast, lunch, dinner, two snacks and even the occasional dessert. Simply select ‘order’ and leave all the meal planning to the Warrior. No more lists, shopping trips or counting calories. This is all done for you whether you require 1,200 calories per day or up to 3,000 for the really active among us.
Fresh cooked meals will be delivered to your home on a daily basis. The well-balanced, meal combinations were designed for Pompeii by a nutritionist from South Africa. “Fresh ingredients are key to locking in all the important vitamins and nutrients. Nothing is frozen in our monthly meal plan,” Katrina assured me. If you are health conscious but don’t have time to plan and shop for all the right ingredients or feel overwhelmed by calculating the amount of food you need to consume to maintain or lose weight, the Warrior is for you!
I was curious about the Body Building menu plan. This offer includes only high-protein lunch and dinner but, alas, no snacks and clearly no desserts! As the Body Building plan is aimed at trainers, I am told it is the perfect choice for someone looking for healthy meals and the option to use their own hi-energy shakes for example. “We have selected and developed very yummy dishes that satisfy your cravings while keeping you in shape,” says Katrina. It’s worth mentioning that the Monthly Meal Plans can be adjusted for special dietary concerns. The price may vary but don’t hesitate to ask if there is a particular food on the plan that you can’t eat.
If you don’t want to subscribe to their monthly meal plan, you can also order ‘a la carte’ off their healthy menu for a one-off delivery. With healthy options, such as the beetroot and feta salad or the hammour fish fillet with vegetables, this seems like a great option when you just arrive home from a long trip and have nothing in the fridge.
This service could certainly be a life saver for the busy professional who doesn’t have the inclination or energy to cook after a long day at work. Why not give this a try one week when you have no time for shopping! And do tell your friends as their deliver all around new Dubai.
To order, call: 800POMPEII OR 04-3697746
And if you just want a pizza, they make some good ones at the Pompeii restaurant.
Pretty incredible, but yes, our new signage has made the local news.
A sample of the new house numbers in JVT.
Read today’s Gulf News article in which one of our neighbors is anonymously quoted as wondering why Nakheel has changed the villa numbers without informing us. That is a very good question indeed and has spurred me to email our Nakheel Community Officer for an explanation.
It is true that the recently affixed numbers reflect the original plot numbering system. New numbers were designated for our villas upon handover and it is unclear why a decision was taken to revert to the old numbering system.
I will certainly share the reasons when I hear more from Nakheel.
In the meantime, I suppose change keeps us on our toes 🙂
Help our neighbor find his missing grey parrot. No easy task with the number of birds in JVT but if you have one talking in your garden call 050 738 3135!
With ‘Makani’ and the new street signs just announced this week, JVT residents fear no more! Being lost in JVT will soon be a thing of the past. No more waiting hours for your food delivery. Visiting friends should find you without circling hours around the neighborhood!
Have you seen these? The promise that it will be possible to navigate around JVT with ease…
Coming soon to a villa near you!
Nakheel has even designed a new community map. It’s color-coded by district. With three shades of blue and two shades of green, it is not clear that the color system will help much, but at least every villa and townhouse will display the district number. You’ll note that each house now has an alpha-numeric code.
Overall, this represents a clear improvement. Looking forward to seeing if there will be any other directional or way finding signs in the future. Personally, I don’t care for the road-side advertising that recently sprung up along Tulip Street and wonder if the fees will at least be re-invested in community development projects. Let’s ask Nakheel.
Do you want to get in shape or stay fit without leaving JVT?
Try the new classes at Imperial Residence Fitness Studio!
It’s only 250 AED for a block of 4 sessions. Use our promotion code (jvt-blog) to buy a set of 4 classes for 230 AED!
Check the schedule on their Facebook page for latest classes: https://www.facebook.com/jvtimperialresidencefitness/events
Contact Asma for more info on 050 687 8323
Are you looking to buy or sell something? Our neighbor Adham can certainly help through his new online venture EZ Heights.
The company tagline is ‘Making it EZ for you to Browse, Click, Buy.’ As a social market place, EZ Heights is a classifieds website with a difference. The site aims to make it easier to post your ads and communicate with potential buyers across all types of social media. The team is also keen to ensure the ads are authentic. All new advertisements are manually approved for quality control of the ads on the website. With over 200,000 listing on the site, this makes for a lot of work.
Among the useful features is the website ‘chat’ to help buyers and sellers communicate more efficiently without any phone calls. Another nifty add-on is the Whatsapp integration were you can share ads via Whatsapp as well as chat to buyers and sellers directly. As part of the EZ Heights community, you can review ads as well as update your status (looking for, need help with, etc). See things you like from a regular poster? It is possible to ‘follow’ users so that you stay updated with their latest posts and products or services. “We integrated these social elements to make communication more efficient and more fun,” Adham explained. I think that EZ Heights should be a good alternative to posting about furniture, cars and villas for sale on the various JVT Facebook groups!
“I started this business because I saw a lack of quality classifieds websites in the UAE. The existing portals usually concentrate on quantity rather than quality,” says Adham. “We concentrate on both but mainly quality which is why we manually approve our ads.” He tells me that the actually the idea stems from his childhood when he would accompany his father to the Deira fish market. Seeing the exchange between people buying, selling and negotiating inspired him to “take the traditional market experience and modernize it online.”
Born and raised in Dubai, Adham moved to our community over this summer. “JVT is such a beautiful and quiet community, and since I started socializing a little with the people living here I found out that this is a nice and supportive community,” he remarks. “They even helped me find my lost cat (his name is cat) recently!” It is free to post an ad, but Adham will offer JVT residents with their own businesses up to 20% discount to purchase site banners. Just mention the JVT Community Blog when asking for this special privilege!
Get selling or buying by visiting: www.ezheights.com
The Dubai Municipality is holding a competition to encourage more home gardening. With the opening this week of Garden Glow in Zabeel Park, this seems like a timely opportunity for the municipality to encourage home owners to beautiful their space to add their own touch to greening the city.
As I see so many lovely gardens when walking around JVT, I wanted to share this great initiative with the community.
See conditions below for participating.
For more info, contact 04 206 4855 or anmazid@dm.gov.ae
Jumeirah Village Triangle 