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Peyote Dubai: a flirtation or a relationship with Mexican cuisine?
Share your commentsDubai loves to flirt with Mexican cuisine, luring us in with the promise of authentic food, but what typically transpires is Tex-Mex overload with an original Mexican dish thrown in for...
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Sheer menu folly by Nick and Scott?
Share your commentsMy initial reservations about having to traipse through tourist-laden Souk Madinat Jumeirah are banished as the convivial atmosphere of a new Dubai restaurant, Folly by Nick & Scott (on the first floor of the former Rivington...
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Mama Matto: another Italian restaurant in Dubai?
1 commentFrom the creators of Iris and Indie, comes a home-grown Italian restaurant in Dubai, Matto in the Oberoi. Replacing Umai, the hotel’s Far-Eastern concept, Matto translates to 'crazy', aptly named given this is the first...
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Is Butcher & Still a cut above?
Share your commentsThe dining scene on Abu Dhabi's Maryah Island is hotting up as a steady stream of restaurants open their doors. Butcher & Still at the Four Seasons unleashed its 1940s Chicago-style...
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Does Weslodge Saloon elevate American cuisine?
Share your commentsThe Old Wild West has landed in Dubai in the form of Weslodge Saloon, a Canadian restaurant import mirroring a long gone era of the Western United States. Except that this 'saloon' is...
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JB’s Gastropub: does it do exactly what it says on the tin?
4 commentsThe word ‘gastropub’ is often misused to superficially glam up pub fare, without really making any effort to differentiate with the menu and...
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Mayta: better late than never?
8 comments18 months ago Dubai had no dedicated Peruvian restaurants (unless you count supper club The Act). Coya opened in December 2014, followed a few months later by The Garden, and now...
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Cocktail Kitchen – no reservations?
6 commentsI have mixed feelings when I ring a licensed restaurant in Dubai to book a table (for six) and they do not take reservations - "you can just pop by and there should be enough seating...
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How genuine is Bistro des Arts in Dubai?
9 commentsI happen upon a new Dubai restaurant on Instagram with many raving about its French authenticity. For once a restaurant opens here so quietly, without any of the usual PR onslaught...
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