That is the name of the honey store near the offices of The National.

I don’t know how long it has been there. Maybe weeks. Maybe years. But I  noticed it on the drive to the newspaper offices. A small sign over a small shop, nearly obscured by construction all around it.

“Emirates Flower Honey & Bee”

Unless you are allergic to honey, how can you not go in?

A few weeks ago, on a day off, I found my way to Emirates Flower Honey & Bee.

It is on Airport Road between 19th and 15th streets, a stretch of aging residential buildings, built back when six stories was pretty much the Abu Dhabi maximum.

Nearly every one of those buildings has undergone recent renovation, what with the structures being “ancient” — probably built in the 1990s, which is pre-history in the UAE.

Unfortunately for Emirates Flower Honey & Bee … the store fronts next to it are being worked on, and it must be a law here that any construction must be shielded from view by metal fencing about 15 feet high.

So, it’s hard to pick out the honey shop, and I thought I had missed it, until I drove a few more feet, and there it was, with one older-model car parked just in front.

I entered the shop and found one young man in a kandura, which means he probably is an Emirati, perhaps from a rural setting, sitting on a folding chair, watching a small television. I guessed he didn’t get much company.

It was a small space, and from scanning the 15×15 room it quickly became clear they sell pretty much nothing but honey.

The clerk, maybe 22 or 23, smiled and got up and in his limited English (which outstrips my Arabic, of course) identified two types of honey.

The honey from Abu Dhabi emirate (probably from Al Ain, if I had to guess) and the honey from Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost emirate and the one most associated with the minimal farming that goes on in this country, most of it being sandy wasteland.

The RAK honey was 200 dirhams — about $54. The Al Ain honey was 150 dirhams, or $40.

Which is a lot of money for honey, but … it is rare to find something edible that comes from the UAE. And the bottles were big. I’m going to guess 750 milliliters — about 25 ounces, or nearly a quart.

I was offered a taste, on a tiny spoon, and both sorts seemed excellent to me, and if I can’t tell the difference, I’m buying the cheaper sort — plus, I liked the idea of Abu Dhabi honey bees, in Abu Dhabi. Supporting local beekeepers, and all.

I wondered if the young guy in the kandura got any more customers that day. At least he had his TV.

And I have a tremendous stash of Abu Dhabi honey, from the Emirates Flower Honey & Bee store.