Dubai’s Hottest Restaurants Are Infiltrating Cities Worldwide

Dubai used to be a place where the best restaurants had been imported from other parts of the world, a city without a culinary soul. Now, its homegrown brands are the ones flooding other metropolises.

Some of the emirate’s hottest restaurants, from fast casual to fine dining, are opening across the globe as the region’s hospitality businesses mature and expand.

Dubai-based Fundamental Hospitality will spend $140 million through 2024 opening 18 restaurants and clubs—concepts such as Gaia, NYX and Shanghai Me—including a dozen in international locations like London, Miami and Marbella, Spain. Kinoya, a beloved ramen restaurant that grew out of a supper club, will debut ...