Our guest today is Samer Hamdeh
Creator & founder of the restaurant Akiba Dori and Big Mouth Concepts. Inspired by Tokyo the restaurant serves Japanese street food and Neapolitan Pizza. They will have couple of more expansions in the UAE and are opening in Saudi Arabia and they are aiming to go global by opening in Europe and Asia.
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Aug 2023
Season 2(English): Ep.1 Meitha Al Diwani Creative Director
Scarcity, creating trends, confidence and discipline. From despair, clarity and manifestation occurs. I would like to thank Meitha Al Diwani for being part of this podcast. This episode was published via #anchor and is available on #applepodcasts, #spotify and more. The habits of ... Show More
41m 47s
Aug 2023
Season 2 (Arabic): Ep. 2 Eman Al Mughairy
Diplomacy in human relations, jack of all cards, relationship with failure, and values. This episode is in Arabic. I would like to thank Eman Al Mughairy for being part of this podcast. This episode was published via #anchor and is available on #applepodcasts, #spotify and more. ... Show More
29m 42s
Oct 2021
#24 Ibrahim AlBadawi - Personal Growth, Lifestyle Design, and Learning How to Learn
My guest for today is a storyteller, an innovation catalyst, and a cultural adaptor.He is the founder of 01Gov - a Dubai born startup that aims at inspiring and enabling leaders of the public sector across the Middle East, and the broader Global South to design governments of the ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2019
DUBAI WORKS EP7 - Samer Hamadeh talks about his latest venture Akiba Dori
Samer Hamadeh has been involved in businesses in Dubai since moving here from Beirut in 2003, whether movie productions, corporate events, nightly life or restaurants. He has been associated will much-loved venues like Republique, Stereo Arcade and most recently Akiba Dori. Samer ... Show More
33m 50s
Aug 2021
Creating a social and personalized experience to connect restaurants with diners with Elmenus Founder, Amir Allam
Today’s episode is with Amir Allam, the CEO and Founder of Elmenus, a food discovery platform with over 12,000 restaurants and over 1.5 Million monthly users. Their mission is to share the best dishes in each city in the region by combining a social, visual and personalized exper ... Show More
1s
Sep 2020
Episode 8: Part 1 Take a Big Bite of Entrepreneurship with Mantoushe's Founder and CEO Sophia Sleiman (literally means big bite in Arabic)
My guest Sophia Sleiman, Founder and CEO of Mantoushe, Real Food, Lebanese fusion restaurants operating Four branches out of UAE. In this first instalment of two episodes, Sophia and I talk about her beginning, what inspired her to become an entrepreneur and all that she has lear ... Show More
36m 36s
May 2022
How to Turn Passion & Play Into Impact & Success | Chef Irene Shiang Li
When Chef Irene Li opened a food truck, mei mei, with her siblings, hoping to have fun together, build something cool, and reimagine Chinese comfort cuisine with a playful, modern twist, what happened next took everyone by surprise. Mei Mei exploded, becoming the talk of the town ... Show More
53m 35s