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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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  Meet the chef-cum-restaurateur behind Atelier M

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  Grandiose is perhaps an understatement for Dubai’s latest dining spot. The elevator opens on the seventh floor directly into an old-world restaurant reminiscent of The Great Gatsby era – minus the flapper dresses...

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  Any plans for New Year’s Eve?

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  If you're a lastminute.com kind of character when it comes to social arrangements like I am, and you're at a loose end on New Year's eve, here's a round-up of restaurants serving à la carte in Dubai - and all with a view of this town's fireworks...

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  An Arabesque restaurant in Dubai oozing atmosphere

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  Dubai; I am drawn back to this new hotspot, not just for cocktails at the buzzing bar, but the lure of dinner in a hugely atmospheric restaurant. If you’ve read my last review you’ll know how much value FooDiva attaches to ambiance in evaluating a dining experience. We’re at a new...

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  Top 12 alternative dining options to toast the festive season in Dubai, plus a competition

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  A wee while ago, I started thinking about a festive round-up that handpicks restaurants in Dubai not offering astronomically expensive brunches, lunches and dinners over Christmas and New Year, and...

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  How does Far-Eastern Umai at Oberoi Dubai fare?

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  On a high, literally, from cocktails at Dubai’s new sexy rooftop bar Iris, we head downstairs for dinner with two restaurants in mind. First, Ananta, the Oberoi’s Indian but it’s eerily quiet with no sense of place. Surely...

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  The Spanish invasion

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  The Spanish restaurant scene in Dubai has been hugely under-represented for a while now with the rather jaded Seville's but more authentic Al Hambra. Am talking licensed establishments by the way serving booze. Well luckily that's now changing with...

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  New café concepts with a difference

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  Dubai; A good few years ago I harboured an ambition somewhere in the depths of my hyper-active brain to open a café one day - to the point that I started collecting retro memorabilia to decorate this dream.

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  What’s new for dinner on the Palm?

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  It’s a helluva long drive, by Dubai standards that is, as our car eases its way around the east crescent of Palm Jumeirah passing Atlantis, Sofitel, the Waldorf Astoria construction site, and finally our first destination...

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