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Meet Daniel Boulud in Dubai
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I first interviewed chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud in the Cayman Islands for Ritz-Carlton’s annual Cayman Cookout beach bash in 2014. Digging out my interviews for FooDiva and, separately, for...
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Boom or bust? Dubai’s chefpreneurs tell their inside stories
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Sudeshna Ghosh explores the (often tough) back-stories of Dubai’s new breed of chefs turned restaurateurs, who took the plunge to swap foie gras for finance and...
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Meet chef Alain Ducasse at his first restaurant in Dubai
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The legend that is chef Alain Ducasse has landed in Dubai. Softly spoken. Calm. Collected. And slightly reticent. His publicist acts as a translator when we meet over an 8am coffee and...
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Meet chef Vladimir Mukhin
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Chef Vladimir Mukhin is busy fiddling with the #crabporn that is Kamchatka crab on his iced shellfish display at his first Dubai restaurant, and his first outside Russia and Kazakhstan. We’re at...
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Meet chef Thomas Keller
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Chef Thomas Keller has no intention of bringing his three-Michelin starred US restaurants The French Laundry and Per Se, or his one-star Bouchon Bistro to the UAE due to lack of access to fresh ingredients...
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Meet chef David Myers
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He calls himself the ‘gypsy chef’, spending more time in Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong at his six restaurant concepts, than he does in his home city of Los Angeles. But that’s not surprising...
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Meet chef Chris Galvin
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I first stumbled upon chef Chris Galvin (and his younger brother Jeff) when they opened Terence Conran’s Orrery in Marylebone in 1997. I used to work round the...
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A peek into Zahira with chef Greg Malouf
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I have been very vocal that for Dubai’s restaurant scene to be taken seriously on the global stage, we need to see high-end, home grown licensed establishments serve modern...
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Meet chef Tim Raue at his Dubai restaurant Dragonfly
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He is a self-confessed egocentric, yet at the same time considers himself charming (he is). Having watched the chef Tim Raue episode on Chef’s Table, I was a little worried he would...
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