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  A Dubai dining bucket list meets Gourmet Trails

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  I’ve shared my short and sweet foodie bucket list for Dubai before, but with a flurry of new restaurant openings and a changing food scene, an update is long overdue. So with the launch...

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  One dish worth the drive to Abu Dhabi

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  Four days, 13 restaurants, 59 dishes later and I now know Abu Dhabi’s dining scene inside out. The highlight? One dish that’s worth the drive down that treacherous highway, or...

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  The Dubai Food Festival Gourmet Trail, Carnival plus so many more…

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  Given Dubai’s growing and maturing dining out scene, wouldn’t it be fab if we could map out foodie trails across a number of diverse eating...

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  A celeb chef culinary holiday for your bucket list – first course

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  I am tucking into breakfast in the all-white Club room sitting next to Eric Ripert (on the next table, not mine sadly), so my groupie chef gazing has...

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  Taste Tortuga with a competition – presented by Madinat Jumeirah

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  “The next big thing on the food and restaurant scene this year is a Mexican renaissance,” so claimed chef-cum-TV star Anthony Bourdain during our interview at Cayman Cookout...

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  Galle, Sri Lanka – a travel guide in pictures

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  I first visited Sri Lanka a few years ago as a surprise birthday gift when we pretty much toured the whole island. Well not quite, as we skipped what is probably the most beautiful corner - the gorgeous colonial fort town of Galle on the south-western coast. And a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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  Toko docks in Dubai

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  Are the powers that be at Vida Downtown Dubai recreating a mini DIFC restaurant scene? First La Serre to rival La Petite Maison, and now Toko, a contemporary Japanese restaurant concept imported from Sydney to mimic Zuma perhaps?...

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  Peek into the UAE’s next culinary festival with a competition – presented by Gourmet Abu Dhabi

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  If you love gourmet food and fine dining, well let’s be honest you wouldn’t be reading this post otherwise, then the capital’s annual 16-day culinary festival is just around the corner...

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  5 diversely different dining spots in Dubai

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  FooDiva should be regaling you with waistline-friendly dining options given new year resolutions and all, but as an occasional believer in portion-control, gene management and exercise – all in moderation of course (my two mantras are Mireille Guiliano’s French Women Don’t Get Fat and Dr D’Adamo’s Genotype diet)...

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