Markus Thesleff on Launching a Restaurant During a Pandemic
The successful restaurateur is about to launch his new Japanese-Mexican eatery Los Mochis in London s Notting Hill.
By Emma Al-Mousawi | February 24 2021
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Markus Thesleff is a man who doesn’t shy away from a challenge. The restaurateur is probably best known for the award-winning Japanese fine-dining restaurant Okku in Dubai, not to mention the famed nightspot Pangea in downtown Manhattan. The opening of both ventures seemed to coincide with global events of huge economic magnitude that would make even the most seasoned of entrepreneurs rethink their plans.
Not Thesleff, who signed the lease for Pangea in 2001 in the wake of 9/11 and then went on to open Okku in early 2009, just after the global financial markets crashed. However, despite the precarious circumstances, both became hugely successful, with a string of further international openings soon following.
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