Restaurant openings, Taste of Dubai tickets and many a meal out. Tickets for the fifth Taste of Dubai food festival went on sale this week. The three-day event is held outside at the Media CIty amphitheatre and offers a great opportunity for sampling some of the food served at the city's most well known restaurants, without paying full price. There's usually live music, cooking demonstrations from local and international chefs and a cookery school, where visitors can have a go at making a dish themselves. Grosvenor House favourites Gary Rhodes, Vineet Bhatia and Richard Sandoval are probably the best-known of the chefs making an appearance, along with Aldo Zilli, an Italian chef who regularly appears on television in the UK. For more information see . If you book tickets before Thursday February 16, two standard tickets cost Dh99, instead of Dh150. Ruth's Chris, the popular steakhouse on Sheikh Zayed Road, is set to open a second venue at The Address Dubai Marina. Promising marina views, a lounge with outdoor space and signature steaks cooked at 1,000C and served on a sizzling hot plate, the 14,000 square foot restaurant will launch in the second quarter of the year. How often do you go out for dinner? According to a recent survey conducted by the online deals company LivingSocial, in collaboration with YouGov, many UAE residents eat out 11 times a week. Of the 1,131 people questioned, 35 per cent were from the UAE, 23 per cent from Jordan, 57 per cent Lebanon, 17 per cent from Egypt and 3 per cent from other Mena countries. After Arabian cuisine, Chinese and Italian food were the two favourites when dining out. Pizza was the top takeaway of choice, friends were considered more popular dining partners than family and 40 per cent of those questioned considered themselves to be "foodies", "meat lovers" and "experimental eaters".