A health wave is taking over the UAE, with raw and vegan outlets becoming the latest trend.
Raw vegan food does not include items of animal origin, and is cooked at temperatures below 48°C.
On a visit to Dubai-based Comptoir 102 in June 2014 as a guest chef, Sati Faulks revealed that he is working on a new concept — cold-pressed juice bars which will offer fresh juices and raw food. When asked for further details, Faulks, a chef who is consulting in Paris, said: “Hopefully [we will open] in September — we are going to be in Paris and Dubai at the beginning.”
Faulks added that he is currently looking for a space in both cities, but hinted that things move more quickly in the Emirate than in the French capital, so the UAE may end up having the first branch of the brand. A name for the concept has not been revealed yet.
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Silvena Rowe, who entered the UAE more than a year ago, has finally opened her own brand of restaurants, starting with Omnia Gourmet, which launched on June 19, 2014. This is a deli-cum-café located in Jumeirah and is aimed at the health-conscious — the menu aims to be raw, vegan, paleo, gluten-free, as well as sugar-free.
Bestro, which launched earlier this year, claims to be the city’s first “living raw foods restaurant” with the menu being 100% raw, organic and vegan. The café is run by Hayley Ross Macdonald, founder of Be Supernatural, the brand of raw and organic superfoods.
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