Dubai still has a habit of entertaining celeb chefs on royalty gigs and franchised restaurant brands – but the emirate’s most intriguing dining concepts are cultivated by homegrown talent serving every cuisine under the sun. La Nina: Chef Tim Newton has engineered an Iberian-cum-Latino menu with his Portuguese head chef Ricardo Gonçalves at another ICD Brookfield Place restaurant. Odeon: A gleaming white multi-storey villa on Jumeirah Beach Road houses an Aladdin’s cave of French deli fare, and a restaurant with a rooftop terrace – under the helm of French chef-owner Thomas Duhamel and his wife Morgane.