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Is chef Akmal Anuar’s new restaurant more osteria or ‘funkcoolio’?
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If you don’t know chef Akmal Anuar, then you should. He’s the ex-chef patron of 3 Fils, a game-changing concept that, arguably, kickstarted the Dubai trend for independent, chef...
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How does Fat Uncle fit into the Al Wasl Road dining family?
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The satirically-named Fat Uncle, located conveniently in a dining hotbed on Al Wasl Road is a new Dubai restaurant by an Emirati...
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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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Meet chef Alain Ducasse at his first restaurant in Dubai
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The legend that is chef Alain Ducasse has landed in Dubai. Softly spoken. Calm. Collected. And slightly reticent. His publicist acts as a translator when we meet over an 8am coffee and...
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Meet chef Vladimir Mukhin
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Chef Vladimir Mukhin is busy fiddling with the #crabporn that is Kamchatka crab on his iced shellfish display at his first Dubai restaurant, and his first outside Russia and Kazakhstan. We’re at...
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Meet chef Thomas Keller
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Chef Thomas Keller has no intention of bringing his three-Michelin starred US restaurants The French Laundry and Per Se, or his one-star Bouchon Bistro to the UAE due to lack of access to fresh ingredients...
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Meet chef Tim Raue at his Dubai restaurant Dragonfly
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He is a self-confessed egocentric, yet at the same time considers himself charming (he is). Having watched the chef Tim Raue episode on Chef’s Table, I was a little worried he would...
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Meet chef Gaggan Anand as he reveals a Dubai restaurant opening
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The Indian chef whose restaurant in Bangkok has topped Asia’s 50 Best list for three consecutive years and sits at No 23 on the World’s 50 Best...
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Meet chef Virgilio Martínez as he opens Lima Dubai
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If you’re as addicted to Chef’s Table as I am, I bet you feel you already know the dashing and softly spoken Virgilio [pronounced Vir-hilio] Martínez Véliz. He tends to drop the surname. His...
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