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  A FooDiva guide to under-the-radar restaurants in Dubai

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  Dubai boasts a staggering 20,000 or so restaurants, but many go under the radar. This guide celebrates those gems, all homegrown concepts, that deserve more love from us. These...

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  What to eat at Time Out Market Dubai. A tried and tasted guide.

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  Time Out Market in Lisbon was a foodie highlight of my visit back in 2016. So much so, I wondered then why Time Out hadn’t considered bringing the successful...

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  FooDiva’s top Dubai restaurants: a 2021 guide

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  On the back of my new editorial policy to only profile homegrown restaurants, this year’s FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai proudly celebrates SOLELY independent...

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  Restaurant reviewing and new homegrown openings

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  You may have noticed over the last few years that my guest reviewers and I have very much concentrated on reviewing homegrown restaurants in Dubai for FooDiva. That direction morphed...

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  Last supper requests from the Dubai food media community

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  What would you request as your hypothetical last supper? Alongside desert island dishes, every now and again someone asks me this question. A little morbid...

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  A guide to top Chinese restaurants in Dubai

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  As the Covid-19 crisis started to unfold earlier this year, out of all the world's cuisines, Chinese restaurants, were the first to suffer, mostly because of discrimination. There was never any data to...

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  Where to eat vegan in Dubai

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  A guest post from local vegan advocate and co-founder of the Dubai Vegan Days community, Ananda Shakespeare, who delivers her verdict on Dubai’s top plant-based eateries. Whatever your...

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  Travel the world this summer with these Dubai restaurants

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  Thanks to ever-changing travel protocol and a drop in disposable income, many residents are choosing to stay put this summer. To appease that longing for a...

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  Dining out after the Covid-19 lockdown. Plus a few tips.

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  I’ll let you in to a little secret. The first few days of our Dubai restaurant lockdown were a welcome relief for me. I no longer HAD to dine out. Given prior, I...

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