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• 27Oct 2013

  

  Celebrity chefs dock into Dubai

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  Over the next couple of weeks Dubai will welcome 33 celebrity guest chefs, of which 19 have restaurants with Michelin stars around the world. Now that’s no mean feat for our small fine dining out population, but a testament perhaps to the emirate’s rising status in the...

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• 2Jan 2014

  

  Meet the chef-cum-restaurateur behind Atelier M

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  Grandiose is perhaps an understatement for Dubai’s latest dining spot. The elevator opens on the seventh floor directly into an old-world restaurant reminiscent of The Great Gatsby era – minus the flapper dresses...

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• 29Mar 2016

  

  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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• 17May 2011

  FooDiva’s London Gastro Guide

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  I promised you an English capital restaurant round-up, so here’s FooDiva’s gastro guide to all things munchy in London - best distinguished by the times of day you get those tummy cravings. So go on, plan your summer holiday. [caption id="attachment_2179" align="alignright" width="300" caption="London's Millennium Bridge leading to St. Paul's Cathedral"][/caption] Lunch The Providores and Tapa Room - smack bang on my favourite London street for cafe society and shopping; Marylebone High Street. The brainchild of two New Zealand chefs Peter Gordon and Michael McGrath of Sugar Club fame, the ground floor houses the casual cafe and bar, Tapa Room - not a typo, just takes its name from the huge, traditional Rarotongan Tapa wall cloth hanging. But they do serve Spanish tapas-like dishes. Up the creeky stairs sits The Providores, for formal white linen tablecloth dining. If you're in London on a weekend go for brunch; try the hot smoked salmon with two poached eggs and spinach on walnut toast with yuzu hollandaise. And a serving of grilled chorizo on the side. On a Sunday, potter along to the Farmers' Market just behind Waitrose on the high street.

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• 17May 2012

  

  Meet Marco Pierre White

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  Dubai; As Titanic opens its portholes this evening at the new Melia hotel in the rather odd location of Bur Dubai, FooDiva meets the man who many say instigated the UK celebrity chef trend in 1995 at the age of 33, when he became the youngest chef to win three Michelin stars.

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• 30Sep 2020

  

  Last supper requests from the Dubai food media community

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  What would you request as your hypothetical last supper? Alongside desert island dishes, every now and again someone asks me this question. A little morbid...

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• 9Nov 2016

  

  Top 4 rosé wines under AED100 (column 5)

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  They say that things happen when you least expect it, and here we are, recommending rosé wines. You may know that I’m not a big fan of rosé, so I tend to discourage people from...

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• 16Apr 2020

  

  A guide to licensed Dubai restaurants delivering

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  For the first time in Dubai with the COVID-19 crisis in full swing, high-end licensed restaurants are adapting their business models and pivoting to delivery. Some of these announcements are shared on...

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• 18Apr 2019

  

  Boom or bust? Dubai’s chefpreneurs tell their inside stories

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  Sudeshna Ghosh explores the (often tough) back-stories of Dubai’s new breed of chefs turned restaurateurs, who took the plunge to swap foie gras for finance and...

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