“Everyone has written off Dubai at one point.” Dubai Tourism CEO Issam Kazim on how Dubai bounced back post-pandemic and what lies ahead for its culinary scene.

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El Primo’s Jonathan Colin on trading 10 years in fine dining for a taco place & the supper club that paid for it​

“I could have opened Mediterranean. Japanese. Anything I already knew how to run. But my heart wasn’t going to be in it.”Jonathan Colin, founder of El Primo, spent seven years at LPM Dubai and two at Zuma Abu Dhabi — long enough to know exactly how to open another one of those. H ...  Show more

 . 47min 41sec
“I observe. I document. And more recently, I speak my mind.”​ Hani AlMalki on Dubai’s F&B reset, credibility over clout, and a restaurant career built without a restaurant​.

Hani AlMalki — aka Bedouinfoodie — returns to podcast for a second sit-down, and it lands nothing like the first.​ When war hit the region, he started writing: a daily diary on his Instagram Stories that became required reading for Dubai’s food community, built on the one thing m ...  Show more

 . 56min 43sec

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