The Taste With Vir: The Michelin guide to enjoying Dubai's restaurant scene

And Dubai itself has successfully created an image for itself and made people believe that it has some of the worlds best restaurants..

Last year, Dubai persuaded Michelin to publish a guide to the city and to award stars to Dubais restaurants...

My view that Michelin had got it right was met with disdain and scepticism in Dubai where not only do they believe their own hype but they have also been misled by the over-generous estimation of other guides which have over-praised mediocre restaurants or have just applied local Dubai standards to judging restaurants...

For instance, restaurants like Zuma, Gaia and even Orfali (great fun but hardly the best restaurant in the Middle East!) have not got even a single star despite their standing in local and regional food listings..

Though great Indian chefs all over the world have got two stars for their restaurants in the past, they have since moved away from those stars.. Srijith Gopinath left the two-star Campton Place in San Francisco and Gaggan Anand gave up his stars when he closed his restaurant during the pandemic..

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