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New Dubai restaurant reviews by FooDiva
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Where FooDiva Dines In Dubai: A 2025 Restaurant Guide
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My annual Dubai restaurant guide celebrates its tenth edition, so with this milestone, change is afoot. The restaurants featured are those that I choose to frequent socially, some...
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A FooDiva column: Where Restaurateurs Eat
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Remember the ‘Where Chefs Eat’ doorstopper tome? Well I’ve always wanted to apply a similar news angle here. So, inspired by this ingenious guidebook, I am launching...
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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2024 guide
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I give you the ninth edition of the annual FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai. A record number of 45 homegrown, locally developed concepts have made the cut...
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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2023 guide
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The eighth edition of the annual FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai is here. 38 homegrown, independently operated, locally developed concepts have made the cut...
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Top Dubai restaurants: a FooDiva 2022 guide
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On the back of a bumper year for the Dubai restaurant industry where the good concepts have thrived with more business than ever, we have a bumper seventh edition...
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Where to eat vegan in Dubai
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A guest post from local vegan advocate and co-founder of the Dubai Vegan Days community, Ananda Shakespeare, who delivers her verdict on Dubai’s top plant-based eateries. Whatever your...
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New cafés and eateries in Dubai with a difference
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With the evolution that occurs in any growing city, Dubai has blossomed into an emirate with plenty of character across many of its neighbourhoods. From JLT and Jumeirah to Barsha and Business Bay, and even DIFC, each...
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FooDiva’s 30 favourite Dubai restaurants (2017)
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The number one question I am always asked when I explain what I do, is simply - “what is your favourite restaurant?” It’s very hard to single out one sole restaurant in Dubai as I have...
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