São Paulo – In the second half this year, Dubai’s first Brazilian cuisine restaurant in a hotel will open. The hotel chain is looking for a Brazilian chef who can cook barbecue and speaks fluent English to run the grills and pots at the new establishment. The contract will be valid for two years and the wage is US$ 4,000 a month, with benefits including an annual trip to Brazil and holidays.
The man in charge of finding the chef is the Austrian Hermann Reiner. A former chef himself, he has worked in Asian and European hotels, and even at the World Trade Center. Now he is a headhunter. By means of the Vista-Hospitality International company, of which he is the managing director, Reiner is looking for a Brazilian man (or woman) to run the restaurant.
“In Dubai, the hotel restaurants will cook five or six different types of cuisine. They have Japanese, Italian, Asian, Thai… Some hotels are looking for different cuisines, they are seeking something new. This will be the first Brazilian barbecue place in a five-star hotel. We need someone with a background in fine cuisine, who knows how to cook a good barbecue,” he says.
Reiner also says the Brazilian restaurant in Dubai will have some different features than those of barbecue places found in São Paulo or Rio. The dishes served will basically be the same, with different types of meat and cuts, though in a more refined manner.
“I know a few barbecue restaurants in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and also in South Brazil. Brazilian barbecue places are very interesting because they offer salad, pasta, lamb, pork, chicken, beef, all self-serve style. They are simple, but they have great quality. We want to hire Brazilian chefs because Brazil has shown a high level of refinement in cooking the dishes. And Brazilian barbecue chefs are great,” he says.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
