29. Chris Lester - Executive Chef, Caprice Holdings
Bite-sized facts:
Number of years in the F&B industry: 27
Number of years in the Middle East: 8 (with breaks)
Nationality: British
An on-again, off-again relationship with the Middle East, it looks like Chris Lester keeps coming back for more. This British executive chef with Caprice Holdings first joined the Burj al Arab in June 2003, before he left for Macau in 2007.
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Just one year later, he returned to open The Rivington Grill with Caprice Holdings. At the end of 2010, he became a consultant and worked on local brands including Just Falafel, Jones the Grocer, Gourmet Gulf, Rite Bite, among others. But off he went again to London for a year and returned in 2012 to re-join Caprice Holdings.
While Lester claims to have many achievements with Caprice in the last year, he says the proudest moment was the opening of Scott’s at Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi. His aim for the next year is to continue to work with driving the current Caprice restaurants in conjunction with Jumeirah.
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