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Executive chef Jean Westhuizen offers his advice on ensuring your kitchen runs smoothly during Ramadan in Dubai As executive chefs, we have a great deal of responsibility to ensure our kitchens run smoothly and are profitable. It’s easy to simply sit back and except that Ramadan is a slow time and
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The Royal Atlantis Resort & Residences, which is set to open early in 2019, has revealed that ‘Dinner by Heston Blumenthal’ will open at the property. Commenting on the opening, chef Heston Blumenthal said: “I am truly excited about opening in this incredible location”, explains Heston “it is not often that
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The Lion Dubai: Dubai-based chef duo, Nick Alvis and Scott Price, have taken over The Black Lion at H Hotel, Dubai – renaming it The Lion by Nick & Scott. Known for their popular homegrown concept at Madinat Jumeirah, folly by Nick & Scott, the pair will celebrate English pub
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El Sur Dubai announces two new roles have been filled at the Spanish restaurant The popular Spanish eatery has recruited a new head chef and manager. The two joining the team, Roberto Avila (general manager) and Daniel Perez (head chef) promise to bring “a strong educational drive on how Spanish cuisine
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UK-based chef David Tran will be joining the team at Benihana Dubai for the Japanese festival of Hanami this April. Also known as the “Cherry Blossom Festival” the popular Japanese event traditionally celebrates the start of Spring. The event sees people from across the country gather under cherry blossom trees, enjoying
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Costa Coffee’s Master of Coffee Gennaro Pelliccia discusses how to get started as a barista, ethical produce and the most difficult thing about working in the coffee industry How did you get into your career in Costa? I was born in London but spent my early years growing up in Naples with
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Chris Naylor is Executive Chef of the Michelin star Restaurant Vermeer at The NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace Hotel. At this year’s Global Restaurant Investment Forum (GRIF 2018), he spoke alongside Maarten Markus, NH Hotel Group’s Managing Director Northern Europe, about how hotels can succeed at creating a dining culture
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As the holy month approaches, Chef Jéan van der Westhuizen looks at how professional chefs should plan for Ramadan in Dubai Being a Western chef, I’ve cooked many turkeys and roast dishes with mashed potatoes and all kinds of vegetables. Mostly over the western type of holidays. But I’ll never forget my
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The UAE’s food and beverage landscape is “fast-changing” according to Insignia Worldwide CEO and founder, Gaurav Sinha. Speaking at the Global Restaurant Investment Forum, the F&B expert highlighted several key areas where the UAE had experienced change in recent years, and expected to experience more expansion in the lead up
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Heston Blumenthal’s new Dubai restaurant: Popular British chef Heston Blumenthal has announced plans to open a Dubai-based restaurant next year. The new restaurant will be part of his Dinner by Heston Blumenthal chain and will be situated on Palm Jumeirah in the new The Royal Atlantis Resort & Residences hotel which
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GRIF returns to Dubai: The popular Global Restaurant Investment Forum returned to Dubai this week. This first day saw several masterclasses held at the Palazzo Versace Dubai. Classes conducted included restaurant marketing, operational excellence and franchise negotiation. The afternoon session saw delegates being taken of a food tour of some of
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Tom Kitchin and his wife Michaela opened The Kitchin in 2006, and it has held a Michelin star for 11 years, receiving it only six months after opening. This made Tom Scotland's youngest Michelin starred chef proprietor at just 29. Here, he tells us about the lifechanging experience… When you started
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World-renowned French chef Yannick Alléno sat down with The Pro Chef Middle East to discuss sauce extraction and his Dubai restaurant STAY by Yannick Alléno at One&Only the Palm. How would you describe your cooking style? If you want to speak about modern French cuisine, you have to think about modern French
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Alghanim Industries have announced plans to launch four new Wendy’s burger chain restaurants across the UAE. The four new stores will be opening at locations popular with both tourists and residents, including The Dubai Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road, Nakheel Mall on Palm Jumeirah and Al Wahda Mall in Abu Dhabi. Phil Broad,
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Massimo Bottura opened Osteria Francescana in Modena in 1995. An innovator and restaurateur for over twenty years, Bottura has consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s most creative culinary figures. His internationally renowned three Michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana, was named number one on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Fresh off the back of their stint at Gulfood expo in Dubai, LaCimbali Italian Coffee company discuss three of their exciting new 2018 products The LaCimbali S20 Designed with the Italian coffee expertise and know-how that LaCimbali is renowned for, the new born LaCimbali S20 widens the range of current super-automatic machines.
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Gulfood 2018 opens: Dubai’s biggest food expo opened in the city this week. Food suppliers, chefs and industry professionals gathered at Dubai World Trade Centre for the opening of the expo by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance. The 23rd
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A fantastic range of Scottish food and drink products will be exhibited at this year’s Gulfood expo. The presence of the Scottish Pavilion at the 2018 show marks a new push in the region for the British nation. Popular exports from the country include PGI protected beef and lamb, seafood from
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Chef Ta Van Ninh has been appointed as the new chef de cuisine at Hoi An in Abu Dhabi. Chef Ta Van previously worked for two years as speciality Asian chef at Kushi Restaurant in Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa in Mauritius and moved to the UAE capital for
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Gulfood : Food experts at every stage of the supply chain recognise the 5 pillars of taste when catering to consumer demand. At Gulfood, everything is covered –including these market relevant highlights below: Vital for balancing bitter flavours and enhancing fragrant tastes and aromas, salt is an essential component in
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