Electra Street was named for electronics, not for its electrifying evening buzz. Officially it is Zayed the First Street, but Abu Dhabi’s residents once named roads by what people used them for, and this one was for shopping: computers and televisions at one end, batteries, adapters and light bulbs at the other.

Low residential blocks now sit hemmed in beneath skyscrapers. Harib Tower, built in 1974, curves around a vanished roundabout, its balconies painted in two palettes because two owners once split the building. Hamed Centre still sells the latest console games.

VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours use the street to explain why locals navigate by nicknames and landmarks rather than signs, to trace the city’s Modern Heritage architecture, and, on the Urban Treasures Food Tour, to show how a street famed for gadgets became a place to dine.