Bahraini chef gets Gulf Hotels’ CEO award

Gulf Hotels Group’s CEO Award for 2018 was presented to the Gulf Hotel’s Bahraini Chef, Tala Bashmi, who leads the Hotel’s Fusions Restaurant, at a recently held staff party. The Gulf Hotel Group’s CEO Award was launched last year by the Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Garfield Jones, as recognition of an outstanding contribution by an employee.

Chef Tala began her career as one of The Gulf Hotel Bahrain Convention & Spa’s management trainees and attended a leading Swiss culinary school. Commenting on the selection of Tala, Jones said that since completing her training programme, Tala had developed her own unique style of Bahrain fusion cuisine, appeared as a guest chef in a number of renowned restaurants in Bahrain and Dubai and taken over the reins of Fusions Restaurant significantly increasing revenues and the reputation of the outlet and the Hotel.

Chef Tala commented “The Gulf Hotel has been supporting and pushing me to always strive for greatness. Not only that, but they had the blind faith to allow me to take over Fusions with my own vision”.