37. Nicolas Budzynski - Director of Restaurant Operations, International Hotels Establishment 37. Nicolas Budzynski - Director of Restaurant Operations, International Hotels Establishment

38. Scott Price - Executive Chef, Hilton Dubai Creek (until Nov ’13)

Bite-sized facts:
Number of years in the F&B industry: 20
Number of years in the Middle East: 4
Nationality: British

Scott Price is one half of the managing team behind award-winning home grown brand Table 9 by nick & scott at Hilton Dubai Creek, which he set up with his long-time friend Nick Alvis.

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2014 will mark the next step for the Price and Alvis, who will join Dubai-based Albwardy Investment Group, where he will help develop a chain of casual dining restaurants. Price doesn’t tell us much and only explains the concept as “Casual dining, relaxed deli-style. Really nice ingredients, done simply. Top quality stuff in an interesting way. And it won’t be in the supermarket!”

He reached the national finals of the Gordon Ramsay annual chef’s scholarship in 2003, and was then asked to join the team at Gordon Ramsay at Claridges. In 2010, Ramsay asked him to help re-launch Verre by Gordon Ramsay at the Hilton Dubai Creek — now table9.

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