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The Chef JKP Podcast — 187 episodes

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1

Why So Many Restaurant Openings Quietly Fail - And How You Can Avoid It | Colin Hutton

2

Why This Executive Pastry Chef Thinks Young Chefs Are Moving Too Fast | Trisha Henault Singh(178)

3

Inside Chef’s Table Festival: Nancy Silverton, Live Fire & 70 of the World’s Best Chefs(177)

4

What Michelin Kitchens and Restaurant Ownership Teach You About Success | Rick & Florian(176)

5

What Happened After Netflix Put Her Dubai Food Business on the Map | Arva Ahmed(175)

6

He Moved to Dubai at 19 With No Job. Here’s What Happened Next | Greg Wright(174)

7

Why the Best Talent Managers Never Want to Be Famous | Karin Drane(173)

8

Why the Best Food Writers Never Make Themselves the Story | Paul Clifford(172)

9

Why Most Young Chefs Ruin Their Careers by Moving Too Fast | Nicolas Lambert(171)

10

What Really Makes Someone Influential? | Season 13 Begins(170)

11

What Happens When The Service Ends And Real Life Begins?(169)

12

How A Phone Call Led Ariana Bundy Back To Dubai | Arian Bundy (E168)

13

What The Kitchen Taught him About Leadership | Glen Ballis (E167)

14

Why He Left Oil & Gas for Champagne | Ben Kouider (E166)

15

How CUPBOP Took Korean Street Food Global | Dok Kwon & Junghun Song (E165)

16

This Woman Fought 22 Years for Water | Angie Pajak (E164)

17

He Became A Chef At 15 To Buy Football Shoes | Shehab Medhat (E163)

18

The Hospitality Fixer Who Knows Why Guests Don’t Come Back | Samuel Graham (E162)

19

The Rise of Indian Food with Himanshu Saini and Liam Collens (E161)

20

Why Do Some People Never Stop Chasing Food Stories? | Tiffany Eslick (E160)

21

What a Life in Storytelling Really Looks Like | Keith Dallison (E159)

22

He Started Cooking In His 40s And Reached The Top Of Fine Dining (E158)

23

The Chef Who Said No To Engineering And Built An Empire Instead (E157)

24

The Woman Behind Dubai’s Most Viral Food Series | Laura Lai Coughlin (E156)

25

Can Friendship Survive Building a Restaurant Together? | Neha Mishra and Panchali Mahendra (E155)

26

What’s Coming This Season and Why It Matters....Season 12 Begins...(E154)

27

What People Don’t Understand About Celebrity Chefs | Tasneem Rawat and Jenny Morris (E153)

28

What MENA 50 Best 2026 really feels like inside Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (E152)

29

What Great Kitchens Get Right About Leadership (E151)

30

The Pressure That Comes After Michelin Recognition (E150)

31

How Great Chefs Built Standards Before Visibility Mattered (E149)

32

Why Discipline and Curiosity Matter More Than Talent in the Kitchen | Carmen Rueda Hernandez (E148)

33

Christmas Special on Food, Hospitality, and What Really Mattered This Year (E147)

34

What It Takes to Launch a Restaurant in Today’s Hospitality World | Georgie Woollam Edwards (E145)

35

How Early Food Memories Shaped Path to the Michelin World | Alex Dilling (144)

36

The Woman Behind the Food Brands Taking Over the Middle East | Victoria Hassani (E143)

37

How A Blog, A Camera, and A Leap of Faith Led Leen Al Zaben to 50 Best | Leen Al Zaben (E142)

38

How Two Engineers Built Dubai’s Favourite Meat Brand | Dan & Fix (E141)

39

What No One Tells You About Building a Restaurant in Dubai | Akmal Anuar (E140)

40

Can passion take you from Mexico’s street food to Dubai’s fine dining ? Sergio Hernandez Ruiz (E139)

41

How Chef Fabrice Rosso Earned Qatar’s First Michelin Star (E138)

42

How a Family Business Became a Global Cookbook | Joan Tuaño Rumsey (E137)

43

What It Takes to Lead Pastry at Atlantis The Royal Dubai (E136)

44

Do Chefs Need to Suffer to Create Great Food? | Chef Thinus Van Der (E135)

45

Does Dubai Really Need Another Fine Dining Restaurant | Solemann Haddad (E134)

46

Is There Really Nothing New You Can Do With a Potato? | RJ Harvey (E133)

47

Season 11 Begins | Chef JKP on Updates, Q&A and Life in Hospitality (E132)

48

Season Finale 📣 Inside Time Out Market with the Team Behind the Magic (E131)

49

Can Dubai Compete with Global Food Capitals? (E130)

50

Hattem Mattar - The Man Behind Dubai’s Most Talked-About BBQ (E129)

51

Reif Othman - The Chef Behind Dubai’s Viral Toilet Roll Cake (E128)

52

From a DM to Dubai: How to build a Culinary Phenomenon (E127)

53

The Family Business, Boundaries, & The Mother of Dragons (E126)

54

The Latino Chef's Takeover (E125)

55

Thai Street Food in Dubai (E124)

56

Pitfire Pizza -and The Secret Sauce (E123)

57

Coffee, Ice Cream & $3,000 Desserts (E122)

58

From Gaggan to Dubai: Chef Prashant’s Culinary Evolution (E121)

59

The Chef JKP Podcast x Time Out Market: Dubai’s Food Scene, Unfiltered (E120)

60

Limited Series with Varlhona ! Chef Khaled (E119)

61

Limited Series with Valrhona ! Carmen and Kelvin (E118)

62

Limited Series with Valrhona ! Olivier, Hadrien and Reif (E117)

63

Limited Series with Valrhona - Guillaume Lafaix General Manager (E116)

64

Limited Series with Varlhona - Brice Konan Ferrand (E115)

65

Regan Hillyer - From Burnout to Global Icon (E114)

66

Forget Everything You Know About Fine Dining! Bjorn Frantzen & Torsten Vildgaard (E113)

67

Jack Jarrott - Screaming Guests, Openings, Live Fire Cooking! (E112)

68

Raj Dagstani - Marmellata (E111)

69

Troy Payne - Crafting Culinary Memories (E110)

70

Hospitality & Headspace with Scott Armstrong (E109)

71

Health Hacks for Hospitality with Michael Canas (E108)

72

Natasha Sideris ! CEO and Founder of Tashas Group (E107)

73

Pallavi Sangtani! The Complex World of Food Writing (E107)

74

Mental Health Special with Dr. Bisi and Dr. Gurveen - Clinical Psychologists (E106)

75

William Drew - Director of Content for the Worlds 50 Best (E105)

76

The Chef JKP Podcast Season 9 - Wellness (E104)

77

SEASON 8 - Episode 12 - Pierre Koffmann - The Original Bear!

78

Pierre Koffmann - The Original Bear (103)

79

Neha Mishra - Kinoya, and a Story of Food !

80

Neha Mishra - Kinoya, and a Story of Food (102)

81

Doxis Bekris - Emirates Flight Catering

82

Doxis Bekris - Emirates Flight Catering (E101)

83

Celebrating 100 Episodes (E100)

84

Fay Economides - From Strategic Analyst to Award Winning Restaurateur (E99)

85

Carmen Landsberg - Capetown to Brunch & Cake (E98)

86

Emma Banks - A Hospitality Powerhouse (E97)

87

2024 Festive Special (E96)

88

Sandy Muirhead - No More Bottles (E95)

89

Bo Songvisava & Dylan Jones

90

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Daniel Birk - Leading Michelin Kitchens !

91

CHEF JKP Podcast Season 8 - Change-makers (E94)

92

SEASON 8 - Change-makers (E93)

93

Reim El Houni - If You're not Visible, You're Invisible

94

Reim El Houni - If You're not Visible, You're Invisible (E92)

95

Chef Shaw Lash - Lila Taqueria and Beyond

96

Chef Shaw Lash - Lila Taqueria and Beyond (E91)

97

Magdalena Orzechowska - The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sommelier (E90)

98

Magdalena Orzechowska (E89)

99

Alex Augusti - Just Food DXB (E88)

100

Prachi Kulkarni - Pushing Beyond Limits (E87)

101

Kyung Soo Moon - Culinary Director of Sunset Hospitality (E86)

102

A Tribute to Greg Malouf

103

A Tribute to Greg Malouf (E85)

104

Michele Johnson - Pitfire Pizza (E84)

105

David Tapley - Editor in Chief of FACT Magazine (E83)

106

Marwan Sardouk - Cooking in Michelin to Cooking on TV (E82)

107

Luigi Vespero - From Culinary into Service and Hospitality (E81)

108

Mihai Florescu - The Truffle House (E80)

109

Perseverance Works (E79)

110

Omar Shihab - BOCA, Sustainability and Beyond (E78)

111

Panchali Mahendra - CEO of Atelier House Hospitality (E77)

112

Russel Impiazzi - Mentoring The Next Generation of Chef's (E76)

113

Ben Milne - Restaurants to Food Distribution (E75)

114

Dr. Dionysia Angeliki Lyra - Halophytes and Hospitality (E74)

115

Chang Sup Shin - 1004 Gourmet and Beyond (E73)

116

George Lyon - Kitchen Lessons (E72)

117

Judith Cartwright - Understanding Revenue Management (E71)

118

Anand Kumar - The Accidental Chef (E70)

119

Steve Pyle - The CEO of Chef Middle East (E69)

120

Marvin Alballi - The Hospitality Guru (E68)

121

Sustainability Within Hospitality! (E67)

122

Etisalat Beach Canteen - Dubai Food Festival 2024 - Part 2 (E66)

123

Etisalat Beach Canteen - Dubai Food Festival 2024 - Part 1 (E65)

124

Colin Clague - Hard Work Beats Talent (E64)

125

Halil Asar - Hospitality is a Feeling (E63)

126

Kelvin Cheung - Jun's, Fame & Push Ups (E62)

127

Giovanni Papi - Armani, The Burj Khalifa and Michelin (E61)

128

Hadrien Villedieu - From Junk Food to Chez Wam (E60)

129

Kelvin Kelly - Humble Lessons (E59)

130

Alex Stumpf - Chef's, Business and Family! (E58)

131

Govind Shepley - Interior Designers and Chefs are the Same (E57)

132

Tom Allen - Leading Dinner by Heston (E56)

133

Peggy Li - SPS Affinity and Beyond! (E55)

134

Carmine Faravolo - Roots are Important! (E54)

135

Failure Is Your Best Friend! (E53)

136

Christmas Special - Rundown of 2023 and Predictions for 2024! (E52)

137

Himanshu Saini - The World's Most Humble Chef! (E51)

138

Solemann Haddad - Moonrise and Beyond (E50)

139

Claudia De Brito - San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants MENA Vice Chair (E49)

140

Nick Alvis - From London Kitchens to the Dubai Dream (E48)

141

Fahim Al Qasimi - Seafood Souq! (E47)

142

Stasha Toncev - The Chief Soul Kitchen Officer! (E46)

143

Liam Collens the Founder of Eat, Go, See (E45)

144

Jason Atherton - The Chef of Chef's (E44)

145

Duncan Fraser Smith - Author, Concept Creator, Visionary (E43)

146

Jean Winter - CEO of Touch - An Inclusive Talent Agency Like No Other! (E42)

147

Tom Arnel - Chef To Managing Director! (E41)

148

Ego, The Chef's Worst Enemy! (E40)

149

Pre-Season Special - The Chefpreneur Reif Othman! (E39)

150

Greg Malouf - The Godfather - Part 2! (E38)

151

Greg Malouf - The Godfather - Part 1! (E37)

152

Ahmed Salih & Bassel Siblini - Meelz! (E36)

153

Sarah Hedley Hymers - Broadcaster, Journalist, and Michelin Explorer! (E35)

154

Michael Desouza - In-Flight Purser to Professional Chef! (E34)

155

Martin Koebke - Obsession (E33)

156

Gregoire Berger - The Perfectionist Chef (E32)

157

The Caviar Spoon (E31)

158

Alannah Francesca - The Accidental Pastry Chef! (E30)

159

Courtney Brandt AKA - A to Zaatar! (E29)

160

Carlos de Garza - 3Fils (E28)

161

Un-sung Heroes (E27)

162

Ramadan 2021 Special - Chef Tim Newton (E26)

163

Ramadan 2021 Special - Chef Mohamad Chabchoul (E25)

164

Conversation with the FOOD SHEIKH (E24)

165

Maria Stevens - The Marketer! (E23)

166

Craig Best - Into Hells Kitchen (E22)

167

Joe Barlett - The Foraging Chef (E21)

168

Sunjeh Raja - I.C.C.A (E20)

169

Giovanni Ledon - Vegas to Dubai! (E19)

170

Luke Garnsworthy - From Chef to CEO (E18)

171

Chef Troy Payne aka - TROTSKIE (E17)

172

Carl Greenslade - The Coach (E16)

173

Robert Stevens - The Viking in the Desert (E15)

174

Hattem Mattar - The Pitmaster (E14)

175

Season 2 - My Kitchen Life by JKP (E13)

176

Samantha Wood aka FOODIVA (E12)

177

Vanessa Bayma - Catering, Consultancy and Events (E11)

178

Homan Ayaso - The Gastronaut (E10)

179

Shane Born - The Cultured Chef (E09)

180

Tjalling van den Burger - Food Waste Warrior (E08)

181

Sahar Parham al Awadhi - 7 Star Chef (E07)

182

Alasdair Hooper - Boutique GM (E06)

183

Simon Ritchie - The Editor (E05)

184

Roberto Segura - From Peru to Dubai (E04)

185

Halil Asar - Master Maitre'D (E03)

186

The Rise of the Take Away Chef (E02)

187

Who is Chef JKP? (E01)