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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2024 guide
Share your commentsI give you the ninth edition of the annual FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai. A record number of 45 homegrown, locally developed concepts have made the cut...
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How does the new Okku compare to the original?
Share your commentsThe original Okku that opened in 2009 became Dubai’s first independent, homegrown, licensed restaurant concept. Remember the wild disco brunch and Sunday L.O.V.E. promo? Those heady, old-school times are...
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A bientôt Chez Wam
Share your commentsI knew my cover would be blown. An open-plan kitchen with the chef patron on the pass in full view is a dead giveaway. However, I insist on paying the bill – hence you’re reading this review. Otherwise, what a waste of both my time and the restaurant’s...
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Bungalo34: a restaurant, not a beach club
Share your commentsWhen Natasha Sideris, the founder and CEO of The Tashas Group, first mentioned that she was developing a new homegrown, independent restaurant in Dubai, Bungalo34, at Nikki Beach Resort, she...
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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2023 guide
Share your commentsThe eighth edition of the annual FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai is here. 38 homegrown, independently operated, locally developed concepts have made the cut...
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Where does Vaga draw the line between restaurant and nightlife concept?
Share your commentsI adore a night out. I live for awesome food experiences. Either one can make my day, my week, or even my year. But the two together?...
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Can Jun’s make fusion work?
Share your commentsI am always so relieved, and frankly, ecstatic, when I manage to eat my way through a whole meal and restaurant review, without an inch of recognition. Alongside, paying the bill in full, and with no dishes sent to...
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Service versus food at L’Amo Bistro Del Mare
Share your commentsHot on the heels of the Michelin Dubai guide announcement with its fervent focus on the quality of food, I wonder how L’Amo Bistro Del Mare would fare under the steely guidelines of a...
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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2022 guide
Share your commentsOn the back of a bumper year for the Dubai restaurant industry where the good concepts have thrived with more business than ever, we have a bumper seventh edition...
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