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Rachel Recommends: My Doha Dining Picks for August 2026
August in Doha is the month you stop fighting the heat and just accept your fate as an indoor creature. This month’s hit list leans into that completely: an early morning coffee fix, a Bib Gourmand...
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Rachel Recommends: My Doha Dining Picks for May 2026
How can we be in Q2 already? April was a weird one, and the uncertainty continues into May. Some places are closed, menus reduced, staffing too. But there are still some great meals to be had, and our...
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Top New Dining Spots and Must Try Menus in Doha This Summer
All the new restaurants and bars, menus and dishes you need to try as the weather heats up… From the alluring bar at Doha’s newest five star hotel, to unlimited hotpot and also, a well priced Omakase...
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Top Dining Picks in Doha for May 2025
It seems that Summer is on the doorstep, if not very much knocking on the door, with prejudice. It always escalates so quickly – one minute we’re still in long sleeves and enjoying a cool winter’s...
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Your January Doha dining hit list: the hot, new and just-reviewed places to...
Sliding into 2025 with some recommendations to start your year as you intend to continue it! Here’s my January Doha dining hit list: the hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out, right now....
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Doha Dining Hit List October 2024 – new, hot and just reviewed restaurants...
It’s been a while I know, but as the city gears up for a busy end of year, it’s time to bring back my monthly hit list. Summer, to put it bluntly, was slow. But time to clear the backlog, shine a...
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Review: Gymkhana Brings Some Michelin Gloss to Doha’s Indian Fine Dining Scene
It doesn’t take a food writer to tell you that Doha is spoiled for choice with some good Indian food at all price points. At the upper end, we’re also well – Rivaaj, Jamavar, Chingari among the...
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Doha Dining Hit List May 2024 – new, hot and just reviewed restaurants and bars
It’s been a hot minute but my dining hit lists are finally back… by popular demand. So, here is my Doha dining hit list for May 2024 including all the new, hot and just reviewed restaurants and bars...
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What is it Like to Dine in Qatar Airway’s Al Safwa First Class Lounge?
Have you always wondered what it is like to dine in Al Safwa, Qatar Airway’s first class lounge at Hamad International Airport? I took a spin back in 2018 but had been itching to get back inside it’s...
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Brunch Review: ZUMA Doha has Hype and Celebrities but Does it Deliver A Great...
Let’s be honest. First impressions were not great – a questionable table and a server with an attitude as chilly as Doha in late February. Our Zuma Baikingu Friday brunch experience was off to a rocky...
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Review: Is there more to OPA Doha than its Instagrammable interiors?
OPA Doha takes the “more is more” approach to its decoration. It’s almost an assault on the senses – a wall of busts of imperious Greek philosophers (or the younger, hotter cousins of Socrates, Plato...
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Review: 10 Years After it Opened, is IDAM Still Doha’s Fine Dining Leader?
With a landmark location and an impeccable fine dining pedigree, IDAM has always stood apart from anything else in the Doha dining scene. But 10 years after it opened, can we still call IDAM Doha’s...
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Review: Does Carbone Doha Transcend the Hype?
Carbone’s NYC mother restaurant opened more than a decade ago and it’s still one of the hardest reservations to score. A living room of sorts for A Listers (Selena, Bad Bunny, Beckham offspring,...
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The Best Restaurant Dishes in Qatar for 2023
I’ve been compiling the best restaurant dishes in Qatar for more than seven years now. And we have had good years; great years and some pretty average ones. I compile the list throughout the year and...
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Doha Dining Hit List November 2023 – new, hot and just reviewed restaurants...
We’re now officially in the “business end” of the year and there is still so much left to explore on the dining scene. To help you navigate that, here is your essential Doha Hit List November 2023 –...
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Doha Hit List October 2023 – New, hot and just reviewed restaurants and bars
September sped by like Lewis Hamilton on the track. Now we’re in October and headed towards, gulp, Christmas. But I’ve cut through the noise and here is your Doha Hit List October 2023 – new, hot and...
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New Review: Innovative and Irresistible Indian Food at Masala Library
I’m usually one to tease my opinion in reviews. I’m not going to play around here. In fact I am deadly serious. We’re talking about butter chicken. Butter chicken is serious business. But if you are...
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Doha Hit List September 2023 – New, hot and just reviewed restaurants and bars
Sweet September is here and it’s time to get out and about and see what’s new, hot and just reviewed (by me) restaurants and bars in Doha this month. There’s a lot to catch up on – new places, new...
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New Review – Believe the Quiet Hype About LPM Doha, it’s the Real Deal
LPM Doha sits in the middle of the avenue of restaurants on Al Maha Island. While it has been perhaps overshadowed by its more glamorous, and dare I say, louder neighbors, LPM Doha has quietly amassed...
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Review: Is Kai’s Songbird Doha the Real Deal or a Flight of Fancy?
I had fully approached my return to this restaurant with a high degree of cynicism. Of the belief that the borderline cultish proclamations about Kai’s Songbird were a result of them being mesmerized...
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