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            MENA's 50 Best Restaurant List 2025

            MENA's 50 Best Restaurants 2025

            Explore the full ranking of the Middle East & North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants

            Tala Bashmi

            Tala Bashmi

            Estrella Damm N.A. Chefs' Choice Award 2025

            Omar Shihab

            Omar Shihab

            Icon Award 2025

            Carmen Rueda Hernandez

            Carmen Rueda Hernandez

            Middle East & North Africa's Best Pastry Chef Award 2025, sponsored by Valrhona

            Row on 45, Dubai

            Row on 45, Dubai

            Highest Climber Award 2025, sponsored by Ceder’s

            Dara Dining by Sara Aqel, Amman

            Dara Dining by Sara Aqel, Amman

            Highest New Entry Award 2025, sponsored by Lavazza

            Boca, Dubai

            Boca, Dubai

            Sustainable Restaurant Award 2025

            Ossiano, Dubai

            Ossiano, Dubai

            Art of Hospitality Award 2025

            Table 3, Casablanca

            Table 3, Casablanca

            American Express One To Watch Award 2025

            Yasmina Hayek

            Yasmina Hayek

            Middle East & North Africa's Best Female Chef 2025

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            Meet MENA's Favourite Chef: Tala Bashmi

            Tala Bashmi has become a leading force in modern Gulf cuisine, transforming Bahrain's culinary reputation through her creative reinventions of traditional dishes.

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            The Chef Who Has Put Bahrain on the Modern Culinary Map: Tala Bashmi.

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            Three Chefs, One Vision. Meet the Orfali Brothers

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            Inside Orfali Bros Dubai: The Best Restaurant in the Middle East & North Africa 2025

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            MENA's Best Pastry Chef 2025: Carmen Rueda Hernandez

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            10 brilliant restaurants where it’s all about cooking over flames

            10 brilliant restaurants where it’s all about cooking over flames

            Harriet Cooper

            Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026 jets off to Abu Dhabi

            Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026 jets off to Abu Dhabi

            Louella Berryman

            The chef and the visionary: 6 ways Khufu's is redefining Egyptian cuisine

            The chef and the visionary: 6 ways Khufu's is redefining Egyptian cuisine

            Sarah Gamboni

            “Our ingredients are undiscovered” – chef Tala Bashmi on telling the Gulf’s untold food stories

            “Our ingredients are undiscovered” – chef Tala Bashmi on telling the Gulf’s untold food stories

            Rory Buccheri

            Dive into desserts with globe-trotting pastry queen Carmen Rueda Hernandez

            Dive into desserts with globe-trotting pastry queen Carmen Rueda Hernandez

            Ingrid Parades

            Homegrown hero: how Omar Shihab became a champion for local produce in the UAE

            Homegrown hero: how Omar Shihab became a champion for local produce in the UAE

            Sarah Gamboni

            This is what it takes to run a sustainable restaurant in Dubai

            This is what it takes to run a sustainable restaurant in Dubai

            Elizabeth Winding

            Amazing Abu Dhabi: great moments from the Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025

            Amazing Abu Dhabi: great moments from the Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025

            Rachael Hogg

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