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Recommendations

Be it in Dubai, Abu Dhabi or overseas, M/HQ’s clients’ engagement follows a consistent recipe: handpicked guests, engaging conversations, fine food and wine, all with the support of our favorite venues.

Here are some of these – M/HQ stamped!

Dubai

La Dame De Pic

Evanescent Gastro [By Anne-Sophie PIC]

Smoked Room

SPANISH FIRE MEET JAPANESE OMAKASE

Pierre’s TT

FRENCH SEMI-GASTRO [BY PIERRE GAGNAIRE]

Tresind Studio

(NOT YOUR TYPICAL) INDIAN, GASTRO EDITION

FZN

NORDIC GASTRO WITH A JAPANESE TWIST

Hoe lee Kow

UNCONVENTIONAL KOREAN BBQ

Row on 45

THEATRICAL DINING

Reif Kushiyaki

JAPANESE WITH A STREET TWIST

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

GASTRO

World Cut Steakhouse

STEAKHOUSE

Carnival by Tresind

(NOT YOUR TYPICAL) INDIAN

3 Fils

CASUAL, MODERN ASIAN BY THE SEA

Mythos Kouzina & Grill

GREAT GREEK I UNDER M/HQ’S OFFICE

M/HQ’s book of the year’ [or ‘books’ – sometimes, it is hard to choose!] tradition has been running since the firm’s launch in ’09 – our way of thanking our clients, patrons, supporters, staff, while sharing something memorable and close to the firm’s values.

Discover our past picks!

Reverberation: Do
Everything Better with
Music

2023

You’ll learn specific songs and
techniques to help you sleep better,
induce creative breakthroughs, be
more productive, and a whole
lot more.

Keith Blanchard

Humour, Seriously

2022

Humour is a superpower. If you’re
not using it, the joke’s on you.

How Humour and levity can be used
as powerful performance enhancing
tools.

Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas

The Motivation Myth

2021

Motivation and success are not
about spiritual awakening or a
lighting bolt of inspiration. It all
comes from within! Trust the
process.

Jeff Haden

The Captain Class

2020

The secret to winning is not what
you think it is: It’s not the coach. It’s
not the star. It’s not money. It’s not a
strategy. From the world of
competitve team sport, unveiling
the seven key qualities that make
an exceptional leader.

Sam Walker

Range

2019

A fresh take at the world’s top performers,
from professional athletes to Nobel
laureates, and what made them who they
are. In an increasingly specialized world, it
is – surprisingly – the generalist that is
rising to the top.

David Epstein

The Rebel Talent

2018

What do the world’s best chef, an
airline captain who brought his flight
to safety in a daring water landing,
and most successful entrepreneurs
have in common? They love their jobs,
they break the rules, and the world is
better for it. They are rebels – just like
us at M/HQ.

Francesca Gino

The Little Book of Talent

2017

In sports, music, art, and business,
talent is a skill – and like any skill, it
can be nurtured, improved and
utimately mastered. Here is how.

Daniel Coyle

Real Food Fake Food…

2016

Copycats and counterfeits exist in
the most unsuspected places. And
as in many hings in life, in food,
knowledge is key and the real stuff
is not always wasy to identify.
Recognize what to look for, eat, and
savour!

Larry Olmsted

Money, Taste & Wine

2016

Century-old commodity, largely
basic but sometimes uber-luxurious
product, uncorrelated asset class
[see our podcast Foundations
& ….Wine?

Mike Veseth

The Lion Awakes

2015

The story of African
entrepreneurship [and the key role
played in it by the UAE], as told by
one of its most succesful tech
entrepreneur #AshishJThakkar

Ashish Thakkar

Swiss Watching

2014

All you [think you] know – and then
some – about the contradicting,
fascinating, country of Switzerland
[Where M/HQ has its roots]. Special
thanks to #DicconBewes for hosting
a memorable launch event in DxB.

Diccon Bewes

The Go-Giver

2012

The book that started it all [thanks
#HarryMartin.] ‘A Little Story about
the power of giving.’. Small in size,
BIG in impact.

Bob Burg and John David Mann

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