“Being part of something unique and new is more interesting than being in a chic city like Dubai. We’re on the ground floor.”

–David Burke, a restauranteur in Riyadh, as he opened his doors to a new front “with a launch party—replete with DJ and percussionist—followed by two days of five-course gala dinners. It gives him the ability to grow without much international competition, he said,” in a feature on Riyadh’s growing dining scene in Bloomberg. [Bloomberg]