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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 review of a new steakhouse, Three Cuts. With a self-explanatory “concept”.
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A staggering 95% of you voted for my new header-style format that I had proposed for my restaurant reviews, which brings great joy to the organisational freak in me.
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Does Rare ‘enchant and engage’?
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Whilst I have been publishing restaurant reviews on this website for over 13 years, reviews from today onwards will be housed on my Substack newsletter. You can still use this website as your first port of call...
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Can Sushiyaki compete in Dubai’s crowded Japanese scene?
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Let’s see who's old-school Dubai. Do you remember golden oldie Japengo? With a Japanese and broader Asian menu. The Souk Madinat Jumeirah outpost overlooking the waterway...
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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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How does the new Okku compare to the original?
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The original Okku that opened in 2009 became Dubai’s first independent, homegrown, licensed restaurant concept. Remember the wild disco brunch and Sunday L.O.V.E. promo? Those heady, old-school times are...
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A bientôt Chez Wam
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I knew my cover would be blown. An open-plan kitchen with the chef patron on the pass in full view is a dead giveaway. However, I insist on paying the bill – hence you’re reading this review. Otherwise, what a waste of both my time and the restaurant’s...
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Bungalo34: a restaurant, not a beach club
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When Natasha Sideris, the founder and CEO of The Tashas Group, first mentioned that she was developing a new homegrown, independent restaurant in Dubai, Bungalo34, at Nikki Beach Resort, she...
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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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