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PODCAST: an interview on the first Michelin Dubai guide
Share your commentsThe first Michelin Dubai guide revealed a flurry of surprises. So we interviewed the inspiring gent who brought Michelin to Dubai - the CEO of Dubai Corporation for Tourism...
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PODCAST: an interview with Michelin on the first Dubai guide
Share your commentsFinally. Likely one of Dubai's worst kept 'secrets' since rumours first surfaced over five years ago. The Michelin guide is coming to Dubai. In June this year. I first wrote...
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FooDiva turns 10. The 10 most popular restaurant reviews. Plus some news.
4 comments9th February 2011. The date my trade licence for FooDiva was issued. I can’t quite believe a decade has whizzed by. Well 2020 doesn’t count, so perhaps...
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There is no such term as a ‘Michelin chef’
8 commentsAn open letter to all restaurateurs, hoteliers, chefs, PRs, journalists and digital influencers in the UAE. This may come across as a bit of a rant, and it is – but I have bitten my tongue for far...
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Meet chef Virgilio Martínez as he opens Lima Dubai
2 commentsIf you’re as addicted to Chef’s Table as I am, I bet you feel you already know the dashing and softly spoken Virgilio [pronounced Vir-hilio] Martínez Véliz. He tends to drop the surname. His...
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Meet Chef Joan Roca
2 commentsHe’s the chef of one of the world’s best restaurants with the lead rank in 2013 (dropping to second place this year), and of an establishment that also boasts three Michelin stars, plus a waiting list as long as the Sheikh...
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Meet the chef: Atul Kochhar talks menus, curries and Michelin
9 commentsIn 2001, two men in London became the very first Indian chefs whose restaurants were each crowned with a Michelin star at exactly the same time. According to Atul Kochhar, “I tease Vineet [Bhatia] because alphabetically I come first!”
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Rang Mahal by Atul Kochhar – traditional or fusion Indian?
21 commentsSince I interviewed Atul Kochhar last year at Taste of Dubai when he also showed us how to make sea bass curry, I've been longing for his Indian restaurant, Rang Mahal to open at the newish JW Marriott Marquis Dubai...
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Is Dubai ready for Michelin?
21 commentsIs Dubai ready for Michelin? This question has been top of FooDiva's mind lately especially since Dubai hosted its largest gathering of chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants ever last month...
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