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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 48 specialty shops
Best specialty shops in Dubai
The 10 most notable specialty shops in Dubai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Aster Pharmacy - Al Razi Bldg. 64, Dubai Healthcare City (100)
No.64 , Al Razi Building D Block, Dubai HealthCare City, Oud Metha, Dubai
557 m from Dubai Healthcare City (Dubai Metro), metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.216, percentile 100 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - Al Mizhar Mall, Dubai (Medicom 7)
Al Mizhar Mall, Al Mizhar-I, Near Mirdiff, Dubai
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 97.87 of 48
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3
Aster Pharmacy - Al Barajeel Oasis Complex, Mirdiff (Medsave)
47th Street
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 95.74 of 48
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4
Vape N Chill
Property of sahw real estate - Shop No.1 - Omar Bin Al Khattab St
260 m from Union, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.196, percentile 93.62 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - Al Muteena, Deira, next to Aster Clinic (123)
Shop No. 3 - Al Ghurair Real Estate Building, Al Muteena Street, Deira, Dubai
364 m from Salah Al Din, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.189, percentile 91.49 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - Bank St., Dubai (Yacoub)
Khalid Bin Al Waleed Road (Bank Street
380 m from Sharaf DG, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.186, percentile 89.36 of 48
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7
Aster Pharmacy - V20, Russia Cluster, International City (New al Shifa)
Building No. V20, Russia Cluster, International City, Dubai
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.162, percentile 87.23 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - The Pavilion, France Cluster (137)
Pavillion Mall, France Cluster, International City, Dubai
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.148, percentile 85.11 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - Downtown Dubai (206)
Tower 2, Dubai Fountain Views, Next to Address Fountain Views, Downtown Dubai
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.139, percentile 82.98 of 48
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Aster Pharmacy - Century Mall, Dubai (Medicom 8)
Century Mall, Al Mamzar
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.131, percentile 80.85 of 48
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).