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Sass Café – oui ou non?
7 commentsMy expectations are low. Firstly, until a PR alert lands in my inbox, I had never heard of Monaco import, Sass Café, a restaurant let’s be clear, as far removed from a café as Dubai...
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The purple haze of Nay restaurant
7 commentsDubai; There are two vital points to get across about Nay, the new licensed Lebanese restaurant in Emirates Financial Towers (DIFC)...
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Belgian food as haute cuisine – Café Belge
10 commentsCafé Belge is the new 1920s-style art deco 'Belgian grand café' at the Ritz-Carlton DIFC replacing the all-day dining restaurant Can Can (and launched with considerable...
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Something meaty and easy on the wallet
6 commentsHi. My name is Lina Juma and I’m a proud carnivore. Every so often I crave biting into a juicy chunk of meaty fabulousness. So with new home-grown concept, The Steak Bar...
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Wheeler’s of St James docks into Dubai
20 comments"I own the global brand, the oldest fish brand in the world. I was part of Forte when the hostile takeover with Granada happened, so I ended up buying it because the brand may have died and that would have been very sad," said Marco Pierre White when...
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Roberto’s at DIFC – a joint review
9 commentsDubai; When the operations director of a highly successful, long-standing, Italian restaurant in Dubai jumps ship taking his A-list team, chef included, to open their own venture, naturally expectations are sky high.
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Gaucho Dubai – an Argentine restaurant or steakhouse?
6 commentsDubai; Having interviewed the man behind Gaucho Dubai and attended an impressive media opening, FooDiva was most excited to finally review the all-Argentine meat and wine list. So how does the brand's second Middle East location (at DIFC) fare?
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Cantonese franchise Royal China opens in Dubai
4 commentsDubai; Another franchise restaurant knocks on Dubai’s door; Cantonese outfit Royal China with locations across London, Singapore and Shanghai. Infact I seem to recall befriending the Bayswater restaurant many moons ago in FooDiva’s London days.
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Does Center Cut it for FooDiva?
4 commentsDubai; “What would you request as your last meal?” Morbid perhaps, but FooDiva was posed this question recently. Without a doubt, a juicy, tender steak, cooked rare. So with another new steakhouse on our shores, FooDiva ventured to the Ritz-Carlton DIFC’s, Center Cut. Yes Anglophiles, I too prefer the original and correct English spelling of […]
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