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Hashem Montasser, Founder of the The Lighthouse Restaurant & Concept Store in the UAE, is a raconteur who avidly follows the work of arts, culture, technology and, of course, food.
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El Primo’s Jonathan Colin on trading 10 years in fine dining for a taco place & the supper club that paid for it (opens the original)
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“I could have opened Mediterranean. Japanese. Anything I already knew how to run. But my heart wasn’t going to be in it.” Jonathan Colin, founder of El Primo, spent seven years at LPM Dubai and two at Zuma Abu Dhabi — long enough to know exactly how to open another one of those. He opened a taco place instead. Casual and self-funded, nothing like the concept he was trained for. Six months in, El Primo is one of the hardest places to find a table in Dubai. Jonathan tells Hashem about the two y
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