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Christian Gradnitzer - Executive Chef
  • MLA Asian Regional Final Black Box Challenge 2005, (teamed): Team Captain, Overall Winners
  • World Junior Chef Challenge, Dublin 2003 (teamed): Team Captain, Cooking - Gold, Overall Hygiene Trophy, Overall Gold Trophy
  • Africa (Black Box) Challenge, South Africa, 2002: Gold, Overall Winner
Christian Gradnitzer

Christian worked in his home country of Austria, then Switzerland, and the Dorchester Hotel, London, before working on the luxury Cunard cruise liner M/S Vistaford.

In 2000 he joined the Main Kitchen as Junior Sous Chef of Burj Al Arab, and has been promoted to Executive Sous Chef, - second to the Executive Chef - in charge of 175 Chefs and 60 Stewards.

The responsibility also included catering outside events for the Dubai royal family. Christian moved to New York to take on the role as the Executive Chef in Jumeirah Essex House.

‘A great dish needs to have everything: passion, careful consideration, variation, and most importantly, a superb taste.’

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Sascha Triemer - Executive Sous Chef
  • MLA Asian Regional Final Black Box Challenge 2005, (teamed): Overall Winner
  • Emirates International Salon Culinary, Dubai 2003: 2 Gold Medals
Sascha Triemer – Executive Sous Chef

Sascha initially worked in his home country of Germany, and then in Italy for a short period of time before moving to London, where he was Junior Sous Chef at The Dorchester Hotel.

During his time at the Dorchester, he was handling outside catering for the Sultan of Brunei over the summer months.

In 2001, he moved to Dubai for the position of Junior Sous Chef at Burj Al Arab’s

Sascha returned to the Main Kitchen after being promoted to Chef de Cuisine, and is still in charge of outside caterings for H.H. Sheikh Mohammed and other special events such as the ‘Les Chaine des Rotisseurs’. Currently promoted to Executive Sous Chef, Sascha will have the chance to lead the next culinary teams to the upcoming local, and international, competitions.

‘Unique presentation, good taste and combination of flavours are the key to success.’

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