New Executive Chef at Conrad Macau

Conrad Macau, Cotai Central has appointed Emmanuel Souliere as Executive Chef.

Originally from France, Chef Souliere joins Conrad Macau with more than 24 years of experience in both the hospitality and restaurant industries and will be overseeing all of the hotel’s food and beverage operations including western banquet kitchens, in-room dining kitchen, Dynasty 8 and Grand Orbit restaurants.

During his career he has held Executive Chef roles for many of the Hilton Worldwide family of hotels including most recently the newly opened Conrad Beijing, as well as Hilton hotels in Singapore and Shanghai.

While he was in Shanghai he oversaw the outside catering for 32,000 guests at the Rolex Masters Tennis event. During this time in Shanghai he received the honour of ‘Chef of the Year 2009’ from City Weekend magazine’s annual Readers Choice Awards, as well as winner of ‘Best Use of Foie Gras Award’ for French Cuisine Chef Star Awards 2008 Shanghai.

No stranger to awards, Souliere was awarded Singapore’s Food Asia 2002 Gold Medal Award with a Gourmet Team challenge, ‘Chef of the Month’ by Asian Cuisine 2003 and ‘Executive Chef of the Year’ by Cuisine and Wine magazine.

He has also worked for luxury hotels in Spain, Israel and his home country France. A highlight of his early career was working for the two-starred Michelin restaurant Gastronomic Le Laurent in Paris and the renowned Hotel de Crillon in Paris.

Chef Souliere helped establish an ASEAN division of the renowned Les Disciples d’Escoffier association, where along with other chefs who share his passion, they have developed culinary competitions for young chefs to compete and the winner has the opportunity to go to France and learn from some of the best chefs in the world.

He is also active in the Chaine des Rotisseurs, an organisation that brings together both amateur and professional enthusiasts from around the world who share the same values of quality and fine dining.

“We’re thrilled to have Chef Souliere as our new Executive Chef,” said Charles Newland, Senior Vice President of Food and Beverage and Director of Paiza Operations for Venetian Macau Limited. “With his extensive western and Asian experience, along with his vast culinary knowledge we know our discerning guests will appreciate his talent and passion for culinary excellence.”