I’m doing far fewer tastings than ever before, and am barely attending any events either. What did make the cut was the newly introduced BBQ night at Brasserie 2.0, cutely dubbed “The Sexiest Grill in Town”. Last night, I finally made it to …
What happens when a person who doesn’t like lounges and bars doesn’t do the due diligence? One ends up accepting an invite to a tasting at Tribeca, because everyone says the food there is great. And as I would discover in the …
Where do you take a carnivorous man for afternoon tea? Prime 68. No questions asked. If you have a meat-lovin’ man – or in my case: a meat lovin’ sister in town, and want to catch up over tea and and hors …
I realize that if I ever leave Dubai, the institution I’ll miss the most is the Friday Brunch. I don’t think there is this large a variety of Friday brunches anywhere else in the world. We try a new place every Friday …
The Dubai Food Fest 2k16 has officially ended, but is the celebration of food ever really over in Dubai? I think my ever-expanding waistline should answer that question with a big fat NO! Last Friday, my sister and I (who absolutely LOVES …
This is a good time to be alive and to be in Dubai, for it is the month of the Dubai Food Festival (erm, well, it was when I started writing this review *embarrassed face*)! Crowd goes wild? Crowd goes wild. What’s …
Dubai is doing a darn good job at being a year-round tourist destination, and the Dubai Food Festival is naturally my favorite time of year. The DFF 2k16 was kicked off with a whopping 1000 person long table on Emaar Boulevard …
My parents were in town all of last week, and it was bittersweet because I had been looking forward to their visit for an entire year (that’s how long it had been since their last visit!); but just as they flew in, …
I’ve had to come to J-town unexpectedly. The suddenness of it made it an unnerving trip as I had to cancel a lot of plans that I was quite looking forward to, but then being home with your parents is always uplifting. …
Dubai’s weather is quite unforgiving for the better part of the year, so the November-March period is prized and celebrated by engaging in lots of outdoor activities- of which the most popular perhaps is the outdoor brunch. One brunch I’d had on …