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Something For The Weekend #Lucky13
Chef’s Table loses its luster. Reeling from the 2025 Michelin Guide Dubai. Some stonking good Substack reads. I’m off to Veneto!
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Something for the Weekend #12
In this issue: our 10-year anniversary in Dubai! Caribbean food inspires me to cook more. Dubai's best French fries? JLT's still got it. April's eating…
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Something for the Weekend #Elevenses
The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
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Something for the Weekend #TEN
Reporting from a tomb of paperwork. Send snacks.
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2024's Highlights: Of Eating and Writing In The Year I Never Expected.
2024 tested me in ways I would not expect: as a new father, as a new writer. Here are my fondest moments of 2024.
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Something for the Weekend #9
We are turning our attention to our house in Piemonte, and is our son teething?
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The Best Chef Awards 2024
Another list, another awards, what does it mean and do we care?
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Pallavi Sangtani
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Courtney Brandt
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Something for the Weekend #8
We interrupt the usual trope of wine and munch to talk about someone far more important. Plus where to eat this month, news and announcements.
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Something for the Weekend #7
Dubai’s steams towards winter, some big openings appear and I slipped off to the Himalayas.
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Something for The Weekend #6
August took us to Abu Dhabi, the markets and wine producers of the Algarve and Britain's verdant West Country. September may get jealous.
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Something for the Weekend #5
Of Bangkok, Dubai's 3rd Michelin Guide and Unearthing Al Barsha’s gold.
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Something for the Weekend #4
Thai-ping away from Bangkok
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