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  Does Le Petit Belge serve a true taste of Belgium?

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  It doesn’t even cross my mind to book a table at a new casual Belgian restaurant in Dubai. On a Friday evening nearing 7.30pm (over Ramadan), Le Petit Belge at the Pullman Hotel in JLT is buzzing. Had...

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  Is Forty Four Bistro worth a meal?

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  A French acquaintance mentions that a Belgian-owned French bistro has opened in the Warwick hotel on the Sheikh Zayed. And it's not one I have heard of. I do love reviewing restaurants that open quietly without...

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  Brussels – a dining out bucket list

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  I am dubbing Brussels the city of extremes, where one night over Christmas week I find myself queuing in freezing temperatures at Frit Flagey - a friture, commonly known to some...

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  How authentic is Brussels Belgian Bar & Bistro?

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  So it opened as Bapas in The H Hotel six months ago, but has since rebranded to Brussels Belgian Bar & Bistro. The same ownership remains, but the word ‘bapas’ didn't resonate...

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  Belgian food as haute cuisine – Café Belge

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  Café Belge is the new 1920s-style art deco 'Belgian grand café' at the Ritz-Carlton DIFC replacing the all-day dining restaurant Can Can (and launched with considerable...

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• The new buzz, Bumble Box sows its local, organic seed in Dubai

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  Dubai; On the odd occasion that FooDiva eats in, I try where possible to buy local produce, and when I say local I mean from the U.A.E, not the wider Middle East and North Africa region. The Farmers’ Market at Souk Al Bahar was a forerunner in the drive to bring farm to table – […]

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• FooDiva checks into Euro foodie zone

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  There’s not much I miss from my past life in Europe, but one thing’s for sure, café society when the sun’s shining is hard to beat. So if you’re heading to Continental Europe this summer, read on. Calling on Dusseldorf, Cologne, Maastricht, Brussels and Knokke in six days, here’s FooDiva’s take on their local foodie […]

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