Sanjeev Kapoor is spicing up Dubai's Indian dining scene

When it comes to food, if there's one person that people from India trust almost as much as their own mothers, it's Sanjeev Kapoor. Last week he opened his latest restaurant in Dubai.

The celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor at his new Options restaurant in the Mövenpick Hotel, Deira, in Dubai. Jeffrey E Biteng / The National

The Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur extraordinaire Sanjeev Kapoor is a human dynamo: the face of Khana Khazana, the longest-running cooking show in Asia which is broadcast in 120 countries, Kapoor also runs more than 40 restaurants across the globe, has written countless cookbooks and, in 2011, launched his own food channel called FoodFood.