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  Pantry Café and a new Dubai neighbourhood

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  Dubai; Meandering around the new Al Wasl Square development on a drizzly Saturday (yep it does rain and we do walk on occasion here), we pass so many new eateries, some with the hoarding still up.

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  Wheeler’s of St James docks into Dubai

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  "I own the global brand, the oldest fish brand in the world. I was part of Forte when the hostile takeover with Granada happened, so I ended up buying it because the brand may have died and that would have been very sad," said Marco Pierre White when...

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  A steakhouse in the world’s tallest hotel

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  I am slowly but surely working my way through the restaurants at the world’s tallest hotel, JW Marriott Marquis Dubai on the Sheikh Zayed. Out of the six currently open, FooDiva's starting with the highest...

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  Tomo tomorrow?

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  Ask any Japanese diner in Dubai and they will rave about Chef Chitoshi Takahashi’s cuisine, as I do. Well after over three decades, he has left Kisaku at the Khaleej Palace hotel and is now ensconced in his new home...

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  Café Baroque and a new year’s resolution

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  Dubai; I don't know about you but I never bother to make new year's resolutions anymore as I either forget or break them. When faced with...

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  Nice Náis Italian Kitchen

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  Finding authentic Italian food in Dubai is as hard to come by as a white truffle in Alba this season. Sadly this is one cuisine that’s become a victim of globalisation with restaurants here trying to please too many palates. Italian cuisine is so diverse...

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  Restaurant reviews, food blogging and going viral

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  I eat out more often than I eat in. I sometimes make a restaurant reservation under my dining companion's name. If there’s window seating and it’s daylight, am grabbing that table. Once I’ve ordered, if the menu isn't online I nab it...

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  Can the Taste Initiative champion change in Dubai?

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  A monolith of a concrete structure stares down the Sheikh Zayed; impossible to miss as you drive towards Mall of the Emirates, Dubai-bound. Well that's...

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  New kids on the block

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  Dubai; No sooner have I polished off my last morsel and pressed the publish button, another new restaurant or café opens. So much so, FooDiva has a trio of goodies...

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