A Glutton’s Guide: How to Cheat on Your Diet in Dubai.
If you were looking for ways to sneak off of a self-imposed diet, let me help you. You could wind
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Sheermal Kabab at Karama’s tiny Lucknowi outpost: Ballimaran Dilli
There’s something so seductive about sweet-salty foods. Salty caramel. Icing sugared Moroccan chicken bastilla. Meaty kababs slathered over milky sweet
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NYC’s latest gift to Dubai: Cheesy grilled corn and beef-smacked Cubano sammies at Cafe Habana.
In case you think I’m this little weasel who wanders about the lone alleyways of Old Dubai in search of
Don’t ask me what you can eat in Old Dubai, ask me what you CAN’T.
The past few weeks have been a train ride of food experiences in the city. Everything from Emirati and Egyptian
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The Silent Spice.
You know that feeling when something is not quite right and you cannot throw a dart at what it is?
Part 1: Sharjah Food Trekking
If someone asks me where they could dig around here for a goldmine of authentic restaurant gems, I’d point in
Cumin-crusted Yemeni Haneeth in a Saudi-born Restaurant with a Spanish Name…in Dubai.
The first time I saw Cabrito was last November. It didn’t have a name at the time. It was all
I smelled. I tasted. I ate like a cow. Baghali Polo with Mahicheh at Iran Zamin.
This is how I found the Iranian dish that left me no choice but to betray my erstwhile Iranian love:
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One motherly lady, a pot of simmering stew, a ladle of love later, I became an Ethiopian food convert.
In 2011, I published a post called: Anyone out there found yummy Ethiopian food? In retrospect, it was terribly written
Koshari Missiles around the Corner.
Folks who aspire to open their own restaurant someday, should you ever plan to unleash a bi-lingual menu into the
It’s Feb, but make this New Year’s resolution: Go to Sea Mood. Order the batter-fried Sultan Ibrahim.
Sadly this restaurant is now closed. Dubai, do we really care about seafood sustainability? Apparently not enough to have kept this
An Iskendar Kabab in Deira that Needs to be Revered, Glorified, Idolized. (…and eaten when the others aren’t looking.)
A few of you might have suffered through my obsessive Iskendar kabab ramblings in the past—and this is definitely going