and As partners in their father’s business, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. do a lot of dining together — whether they’re talking to clients Stateside about Quattro, their upcoming restaurant in the Trump Soho building or cutting ribbons in the Middle East as they did this week. Don — or Donnie, as his younger brother calls him — prefers to eat downtown at places like BondStWoo Lae Oak, but that doesn’t mean he’s above stopping into McDonald’s for a sausage, egg, and cheese. “We’ve been brought up to have both kinds of taste: My father’s an all-American eater — burgers, fries, pizza — and my mother is more of a sophisticated, European eater.” Aside from a dinner at Raoul’s, Trump Jr. didn’t see much of New York this week owing to a trip to Greece, so we asked Eric to tell us what he ate.
Saturday, April 19 We arrived in Qatar on Friday. Saturday mid-afternoon Ivanka, myself, and Donnie returned from the hotel and sat down and had three lobster tails right on the beach near the Arabian sea.
That evening we met with various high-ranking officials at Qatar. We ate very traditional food; it started off with amazing caviar and went on to some of the more traditional Arabian soups with Arabian tea. On the side they had the stuffed grape leaves. That was a very nice meal. We also had lamb chops.
Sunday, April 20 We went to Abu Dhabi. We had a large catered meal — an amazing buffet with great desserts. They had everything from lobster to chicken to the traditional Middle Eastern rices, calamari, and salads. It was an infusion of Italian and Middle Eastern. I had a nonalcoholic drink I had never had before — a lemonade that they put a lot of mint in so it was all green. We had that while we were conducting our business.
We flew to Dubai that evening and stayed at the Burj Al Arab. We had our ribbon cutting at one of the other hotels that just opened up there and had a dinner for the unofficial launch of our building. We were seeing the building, doing architectural layouts. We had dinner with quite a large group. That started with one of the Arabic soups combined with a sashimi platter (it was either fluke or sole — raw sole is very good with a salad on top of it) and some kind of meat.
