Skift Take
— Josh Corder
Dubai’s booming restaurant sector has its own 50-minute episode in a Netflix show out Friday: The seventh season of ‘Somebody Feed Phil,’ a travel show where Philip Rosenthal (creator of the sitcom ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’) tours restaurants across major global cities.
The episode opens with a shot of the Palm Jumeirah island, followed by the government-owned hotels Atlantis The Royal and Atlantis The Palm.
Rosenthal’s first meal is a superlative one: “One of the most expensive burgers in the world” at “one of the world’s tallest restaurants,” he explains. That particular meal was at Atmosphere, a restaurant on the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building, where he has a burger wrapped in gold leaf….