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🫶🏻Supper Club's Sold-Out Opening Night🫶🏻One sold-out debut. A waiting list. And a menu from Chef Jose Robert Quenaya Fal...
12/08/2026

🫶🏻Supper Club's Sold-Out Opening Night🫶🏻

One sold-out debut. A waiting list. And a menu from Chef Jose Robert Quenaya Falcon that had the whole room talking.

The first Summer Supper Club dinner went down at Muru, Waldorf Astoria Doha West Bay and honestly, it delivered exactly what I hoped it would when this whole idea was still a an idea, pitch deck and a lot of coffee.

A room full of people who actually love food, eating well, together, just a proper night out. Chef Jose's confident menu did the heavy lifting. Course after course landed with the kind of confidence that tells you a kitchen is having fun, not just executing an event menu.

None of this happens without the Waldorf Astoria team. From day one they backed this idea when it was still just a vision on a slide, and their hospitality on the night, the room, the service, the little details, made MURU feel exactly like the setting this series deserves. Doha needs more partners willing to bet on something new. Grateful doesn't quite cover it.

The Summer Supper Club worked because it solved a problem Doha's dining scene doesn't always address, a proper night out that isn't hotel-priced or overly formal, built on genuine access rather than a marketing gimmick.

It demonstrated there's real appetite for a curated, insider-led dining experience people trust because it comes from someone who's mapped this city's food scene for nearly two decades. Off the back of that response, I'm expanding the concept into a monthly series, rotating through different venues, concepts and chefs each month, so it becomes a standing fixture on Doha's dining calendar rather than a one-off event, giving both diners and partner restaurants a reason to keep coming back.

So what's next?

Our next one will be this month Curiosa by Jean-Georges, Doha - details will be revealed soon.
Keep an eye on your inbox. You'll want to be quick on the sign-up this time.

Want in on the next one?

Seats for round one sold out fast, and round two won't hang around either. Get on the list now so you're first to know when the date drops - link in the comments.

New week, new reasons to eat out in Doha 🍽️This week: breakfast at Elements Doha gets its groove back, we go behind the ...
09/08/2026

New week, new reasons to eat out in Doha 🍽️

This week: breakfast at Elements Doha gets its groove back, we go behind the scenes of my sold-out Summer Supper Club debut (round two is coming - get on the list before it fills again), and Polka proves Bin Mahmoud's Polish comfort food is worth the detour. Plus this week's offers, news, and my must-eats for August.

Link in the comments!

🌅 I just found your next weekend (or any day) breakfast spot - and it’s on the discount apps 🌅 Elements Four Seasons Hot...
07/08/2026

🌅 I just found your next weekend (or any day) breakfast spot - and it’s on the discount apps 🌅

Elements Four Seasons Hotel Doha has reopened for breakfast only right now and has a great offer to lure everyone back.

The team have enhanced the offering - with diner’s now able to order an à la carte item along with their famed breakfast buffet.

They have also added a weekly “chefs special” dish - this week it was a fantastic lime spiked smashed avo on beetroot sourdough topped with two perfectly poached eggs.

From the main la cart options I plumped for the breakfast course and which was stacked with cheese, omelette style eggs and sliced turkey.

Servers also bring around a variety of small bites and juice samples in addition to the menu.

The buffet included the usual egg station, breakfast sides, fruit, cold cuts and pastries. And if you just want the à la carte, there is that as well.

The good news is that this is on the ENTERTAINER

It’s QR180 for adults and QR90 for kids (under fours are free) and the buffet runs 630am to 11am.

(I was a guest of the hotel)
The details:
📌 breakfast at Elements Four Seasons Doha
⏰ daily 630am to 11am
💵 QR180/ QR90
🍳 order the weekly chefs special
🎶 buzzy and family friendly
📝 it’s on the discount apps

🍷 🇮🇹 Like black and white - W Doha made the right changes to make this a new Friday night out option 🍷 🇮🇹 The name of th...
04/08/2026

🍷 🇮🇹 Like black and white - W Doha made the right changes to make this a new Friday night out option 🍷 🇮🇹

The name of this newly launched theme night - Bianco e Nero (white and black) at La Spiga by Paper Moon feels very apt. I appreciate it when a hospitality team takes some heavy feedback about the food into account and makes the right adjustments. I visited La Spiga for the launch of this Friday special two weeks ago, and let me just say, the food left me underwhelmed (putting it….delicately).

Asked for my feedback on the night, I was, forceful. It seems others had similar views. Fast forward a week and after a rethink, rejig and reinvention, the team invited me back and the experience was the actual definition of black and white.

The menu now sits very firmly in the realm we come to expect from La Spiga, thank goodness. The concept is simple - it's meant to be a fun and relaxed couple of hours, shared plates and some drinks.The restaurant last Friday was heaving - big groups, couples, families - exactly the kind of vibe needed.

The revamped menu includes a whole burrata with a tangy cherry tomato compote, a silky carpaccio with truffle ricotta and marinated artichokes, and a fresh spinach salad. The "black and white" was a platter with some hunks of funky gorgonzola, wagyu coppa and tiny bruschetta. This is served with their famed oven fresh focaccia which is perfect for scooping the salad of roasted bell peppers.

It's a light and bright selection, which will entice you to add some extra dishes from the a la carte (always the calamari for me). The bruschetta is perhaps the let exciting on the plte, but does the job. Service is fast, glasses are topped up and the two hours pass quickly with good friends.

I'm still highly critical of the wine selection - red, white, rose, featuring the dreaded Table Mountain, which continues to victimize drinks menus across this city. I'm told this is also under review and will be replaced if possible - please.

The details:
📌 Bianco e Nero at La Spiga, W Doha
⏰ Fridays 7pm-9pm
💵 From QR149 for two hours of wine and antipasti
🍽️ It all comes to the table, so dig in, but I would suggest if you want a little more, a couple of extra starters would pair nicely
🍷 Well, I won’t get dramatic about this like others, but I would love another wine on the menu
🎶 The restaurant can get loud and there is also a live singer
👩🏼‍💻Kudos to La Spiga's team for taking constructive feedback and turning it into a winner. This is a great Friday night option for the non-brunch crowd.
(I was a guest of the hotel)

Like clockwork, your weekly guide to eating out in Doha is live 🕐This week: Bianco e Nero at La Spiga gets a redo (and r...
02/08/2026

Like clockwork, your weekly guide to eating out in Doha is live 🕐

This week: Bianco e Nero at La Spiga gets a redo (and redemption), Peri Stop proves delivery doner has levelled up, and Yellow River earns every bit of its viral fame. Plus this week's offers, news, and a Supper Club update that has me equal parts nervous and excited.

Link in comments...

...and just like that we're sold out!Thanks to everyone for the support and can't wait to release details for the second...
30/07/2026

...and just like that we're sold out!
Thanks to everyone for the support and can't wait to release details for the second one!

FoodiesI haven’t really ordered much from Peri Stop since they opened…and obviously they have had a glow up and settled ...
30/07/2026

Foodies
I haven’t really ordered much from Peri Stop since they opened…and obviously they have had a glow up and settled into the market.
This is measurably better since my early visits/orders.
I went for the large “dirty doner” meal (in hindsight, ambitious) and it’s hefty and very saucy. I see the meat is fries and a tandoori naan (QR69)
Wowza

⭐️ Revisiting Restaurants on Doha’s Michelin Guide 2026 - Shanghai Me ⭐️ Chef Izu Ani has a chokehold on the dining scen...
29/07/2026

⭐️ Revisiting Restaurants on Doha’s Michelin Guide 2026 - Shanghai Me ⭐️

Chef Izu Ani has a chokehold on the dining scene here, even if you have never heard of him. Three of his restaurants - Izu, La Maison Ani and GAIA - are among the most popular in the city and word is there are plans for more.

Shanghai Me is the fourth of his growing Doha stable, is an interesting proposition: it sits outside his traditional French/Mediterranean metier, offering a "Pan Asian Fusion" menu instead - which, amid a crowded market, it executes very well. Aside from the glamorous dining room with views across the bay, the food is essentially amped up versions of Chinese-adjacent classics with an occasional stylish Japanese foray.

Dishes are not especially edgy but pleasingly presented and importantly, well executed. Like a sizeable and shareable crispy duck salad, studded with pine nuts (QR170) and finished at the table with flair. And a tender but glossy Wagyu beef in black pepper sauce (QR185).

The dumplings from the “dumpling Library” no less (QR170) have a little touch of star quality - gold dust and caviar on the prawn har gow, for example. That detour into Japanese territory includes a lush Yellowtail carpaccio (QR130), fresh, tart and a little earthy thanks to generous slivers of truffle.

We were also treated to the spicy blue fin tuna Oshihizushi (try saying that three times fast after a glass of Table Mountain). This is a pressed or box sushi, and here it’s topped with high grade tuna and golf leaf, propped on a wooden block (QR135), it’s almost a meal inn itself.

Meanwhile, the silver cod with a umami laden miso sauce (QR215) is a classic take on a much-loved dish. The only misfire is a sticky eggplant dish (QR60), bathed in a chili bean sauce, texturally it didn’t work for us.

The meal ends with the creamy, dreamy Hokkaido cream - a sweet, buttery soft cloud (QR60/QR110).

(We paid for ourselves but the management and chef did send a couple of extra dishes)

The details:
📌 Shanghai Me, West Bay
⏰ daily from 12pm
💰 starters from QR40
🥢 The duck salad and any of the beef dishes
❓ At a pinch, skip the sashimi and sushi and save room for the rest of the menu
📝 Dinner is an expensive undertaking, but their QR115 three-course business lunch is a winner
👩🏼‍💻I've been an irregular visitor (but keen observer) of Shanghai Me since it opened and have seen a real improvement - food, menu clarity and service. It doesn't re-invent the wheel, and honestly it doesn’t have to. But you will leave happy and having had an excellent meal.

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28/07/2026

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