Giannino rogue chef tirade, Editor’s letter

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Cierra tu bocaza y contén el orgasmo de tu ignorancia

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Dubai’s restaurant scene comes of age

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If this week’s high-profile spat between Dubai-based food blogger FooDiva and hot-headed Italian chef Andrea Brambilla has done one thing, it’s shown me how far Dubai’s restaurant scene has come in the past decade. When I started writing restaurant reviews in Dubai 13 years ago, my editor gave me strict instructions: “You can’t write a bad […]

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Top Italian chef makes vulgar attack on Dubai restaurant review that points to huge overcharging

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Michelin-starred chef’s fury after blogger complained about cost of her £200 meal in review

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Samantha Wood was stunned when chef de cuisine Andrea Brambilla responded to her review of the Meydan Beach Club in Dubai (pictured).

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Il ristoratore italiano lascia la blogger con l’amaro in bocca

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Samantha Wood cena da Giannino negli Emirati Arabi. E sul suo blog volano i coltelli. La replica (pepata) dello chef

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Giannino rogue chef tirade, Milan chef vents his wrath at restaurant blogger whose review left a bitter taste

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For more than a century, Giannino restaurant in Milan, with its three Michelin stars, has drawn the great and the good, with its rustic charm and sepia-tinted photographs.

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FooDiva judges Hilton Worldwide MEA F&B Masters

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The second annual Hilton Worldwide Middle East & Africa F&B Masters, held on October 17 at Hilton Abu Dhabi, brought together three teams from Hilton Worldwide hotels across the region to compete for the title of F&B Team of the Year via two live cooking challenges.

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60 seconds with FooDiva

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Meet Samantha Wood. The lovely restaurant review food blogger behind Foodiva (@FooDivaWorld) from Dubai in the UAE.  What would your last meal be? I would have picked El Bulli before it closed down. Perhaps now Ferran Adria can invite me over to his for dinner. Otherwise I will happily settle for Noma in Copenhagen. What celebrity or celebrity […]

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