Fresh F&B team for Dubai Marriott Harbour Hotel & Suites

Devina Divecha, August 17th, 2017

Dubai Marriott Harbour Hotel & Suites has revealed the appointments of new members joining its food, beverage and entertainment team.

Sebastian Nohse, who is director of culinary at sister property, JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, will now also lead the strategic direction for F&B at Dubai Marriott Harbour. In a career spanning more than 20 years, Nohse has worked at a number of restaurants in four- and five-star hotels.

Providing support to Nohse are a number of new appointments. Vassil Lazarov joins the team as senior beverage and entertainment manager from Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek where he worked as bars and beverage manager and was awarded Restaurateur of the Year 2016 internally during his tenure. Beginning his leadership career as assistant bar manager in Scotland he quickly moved up the ranks, moving to Malta as restaurant manager at Zeri’s Restaurant before joining Barracuda Restaurant.

In April 2013, he was part of the pre-opening team at Q43, Media One Hotel as lounge manager. He later joined Long’s Bar where he worked as speciality outlet manager from September 2014 until November 2015 before joining Radisson Blu.

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Nikita Nanaiah has been appointed as assistant F&B marketing and social media manager. Nanaiah started her career at the JW Marriott Dubai in 2012 as a restaurant reservations agent and in 2013 became the sales & marketing coordinator at the same property. In 2015, she moved to the JW Marriott Marquis as marketing coordinator and was promoted to marketing executive a year later.

She will be responsible for driving marketing initiatives and supporting the social media strategy for the hotel’s restaurants and bars including The Observatory, The Croft and Counter Culture Café.

South African native, Carl Tichart has joined as executive sous vhef following a stint working as private chef to VVIP clients and as a restaurant consultant in his hometown of Cape Town. Prior to that, Tichart worked as pre-opening chef de cuisine and later as head chef at Scott’s Seafood Restaurant at Jumeirah Etihad Towers from July 2012 until 2014 as well as roles in Scotland, London and Abu Dhabi.