Ice Cream (your) Favorites – Movenpick, Haagen Daaz, Green and Blacks…

Ice cream, what’s your favorite?

So I will admit it, though I do not think it will come to anyone’s surprise that I am a lover of Ice Cream. I will blame it on the job I had after being a paperboy, which was scooping Ice Cream at a local drug store. At that [...]

Menu tastings sneak peek

 

We are finishing our menu tasting and plating trails and with the hard work, dedication and support of Chef Edi, Chef Sal, Chef Anston and both the FOH and BOH staffs of the restaurant we are on the verge of something big…

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Summertime in Dubai and opening a restaurant

Summertime is the time of year when everyone gets outdoors. After a cold winter (for most of us) and a spring that can alternate from wet and rainy to snow flurries and bits of sun through the fog, summer brings the “p” in partay right to your door. Sun, fun and for the most [...]

Dubai Steakhouse – West 14th

 

…and so it begins…

If you have been reading my posts as of late you will know that we are opening Dubai’s newest steakhouse @ the Oceana hotel and spa called West 14th, New York Prime. The restaurant opens in the end of June, 2010 and will feature some amazing beef straight outta [...]

ATM Party – West 14th/Podium Dubai

So the ATM (Arabian Travel Market) came and went in Dubai and it was, from all accounts a great success. On the first night of the multi-day event we @ West 14th hosted a BBQ party @ the Marina Bar directly outside the restaurant. This was the first event of its kind and we [...]

New Menu Insight for West 14th @ Oceana – Our Beef

 

New restaurants are so much fun, if you’re a chef that is! The concept is started in someone’s head, ran through the mill a few times to get a consensus, plans, drawings on bar napkins and an endless amount of chatter gets you to a point where you are finalizing menu’s, looking at staff [...]

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