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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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10 best wine bars in Dubai
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Traditionally you can identify a wine bar at twenty paces. Atmosphere? Check. Wooden surfaces and a cheese selection? Check and check. Lighting a quarter turn from pitch black? You got it. In Dubai though, it can be hard to find a place...
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Sheer menu folly by Nick and Scott?
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My 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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Boom or bust? Dubai’s chefpreneurs tell their inside stories