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  Meet chef Gaggan Anand as he reveals a Dubai restaurant opening

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  The Indian chef whose restaurant in Bangkok has topped Asia’s 50 Best list for three consecutive years and sits at No 23 on the World’s 50 Best...

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  Meet chef Virgilio Martínez as he opens Lima Dubai

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  If 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 Nathan Outlaw at his first international restaurant, in Burj Al Arab

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  For the first time ever, Burj Al Arab has signed up a big name consultant chef to revamp one of its restaurants in Dubai, Al Mahara, in a bid to lure in local residents. 38-year old British seafood...

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  Meet chef Quique Dacosta at the world’s first changing restaurant in Dubai

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  Chef Quique Dacosta’s avant-garde restaurant in the village of Denia, in the south-east of Spain boasts three Michelin stars and sits at number 39...

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  Meet chef Yannick Alleno and his new sauce extractions pairing

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  A so-called ‘food and extractions pairing menu’ that chef Yannick Alleno has just launched in his Dubai restaurant, Stay at the One & Only Palm left me confused but intrigued. Wine...

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  Meet Jason Atherton as he returns to Dubai with his own restaurant

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  He came, he saw, he conquered. And he left. But he’s back in Dubai now. The Sheffield-born chef Jason Atherton, who turns 44 next week, first arrived in Dubai in 2001 with Angela Hartnett to...

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  Meet chef Sergi Arola at his first restaurant in Abu Dhabi

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  Pearls & Caviar at the Shangri-La Qaryat Al Beri Abu Dhabi remains, albeit now branded P&C thanks to a deal with Catalan chef Sergi Arola better...

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  Meet Pierre Gagnaire, the ‘best chef in the world’

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  Pierre Gagnaire may be back in Dubai at Reflets to celebrate his ‘Best chef in the world’ award voted for by his peers whose restaurants boast two and three Michelin stars - but the humble...

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  Meet chef Oliver Glowig

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  German chef Oliver Glowig helms a two-Michelin star restaurant in Rome, Aldrovandi Villa Borghese, which rather unusually won both stars within eight months of opening - an accolade it has consistently maintained since 2011...

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