Foodies, take note. There’s a new restaurant coming to Dubai and this one is well worth getting excited about. Folly by Nick and Scott is set to open its doors this month in Souk Madinat Jumeirah, where Rivington Grill used to be.
It’s an exciting moment for Nick Alvis and Scott Price, who have spent the least seven years working their way up to this moment. They started their joint venture at Table 9 by Nick and Scott at Hilton Dubai Creek after taking over from Gordon Ramsay (it was called Verre under Ramsay). Two years later, they left and launched their next project, Taste Kitchen. Now, they’re ready to introduce Folly to Dubai. Price says: “It’s been a massive learning curve for us. I firmly believe that the experiences we’ve had over the last seven years in Dubai have given us a really key and necessary understanding of the industry.”
The team has been working on Folly every day for the last six months and they’ve been involved with every aspect from the initial concept to designing the uniforms. Price says, “To be honest, it’s a bit of a dream come true. Nick and I used to talk about opening a place together back in 2005, when we were both working for Gordon Ramsay at Claridges in London.”
Folly has an outdoor terrace and a rooftop bar with stunning views of the Madinat waterways, the Burj Al Arab and the gulf. But Alvis and Price want the food at Folly to be the main attraction. The menu includes dishes such as Omani shrimp with marjoram and lime gremolata and lamb saddle with whipped pine nuts and salsa. Alvis says, “We want to do something a bit different and will be serving flavour combinations that we’d like to think aren’t on any other menus in Dubai.”
Price says: “This is a huge moment for us. It’s by far the most important time in our careers. Our focus now is solely on Folly and making it as good as it can be.”
Read our story on the opening of Folly, featuring in-depth inteviews with Nick Alvis and Scott Price in Thursday's edition of The National.
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Mr Al Qassimi is 37 and lives in Dubai
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Series info
Test series schedule 1st Test, Abu Dhabi: Sri Lanka won by 21 runs; 2nd Test, Dubai: Play starts at 2pm, Friday-Tuesday
ODI series schedule 1st ODI, Dubai: October 13; 2nd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 16; 3rd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 18; 4th ODI, Sharjah: October 20; 5th ODI, Sharjah: October 23
T20 series schedule 1st T20, Abu Dhabi: October 26; 2nd T20, Abu Dhabi: October 27; 3rd T20, Lahore: October 29
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Stat Fourteen Fourteen of the past 15 Test matches in the UAE have been decided on the final day. Both of the previous two Tests at Dubai International Stadium have been settled in the last session. Pakistan won with less than an hour to go against West Indies last year. Against England in 2015, there were just three balls left.
Key battle - Azhar Ali v Rangana Herath Herath may not quite be as flash as Muttiah Muralitharan, his former spin-twin who ended his career by taking his 800th wicket with his final delivery in Tests. He still has a decent sense of an ending, though. He won the Abu Dhabi match for his side with 11 wickets, the last of which was his 400th in Tests. It was not the first time he has owned Pakistan, either. A quarter of all his Test victims have been Pakistani. If Pakistan are going to avoid a first ever series defeat in the UAE, Azhar, their senior batsman, needs to stand up and show the way to blunt Herath.
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