Finding Community in Alserkal Avenue

Join us for an engaging conversation with Kokoro and Subko as they share their unique journeys of finding community in the Avenue.

About the Speakers

Kokoro | Faisal Yabroudi

Faisal began his journey in the food and beverage industry in late 2015 by co-founding PINZA. Initially focusing on the food delivery segment and later on launched the PINZA B2B model to supply other F&B operators in the market. His venture expanded to launch several successful virtual delivery concepts along the way.

Driven by a passion for creating & developing unique dining experiences in Dubai, he eventually transitioned into the premium casual dining sector a few years ago by co-founding an outdoor live fire cuisine concept called Fiya and eventually launching Kokoro earlier this year. They provide a simple and casual dining experience, prioritising exceptional food quality, customer service, and customer retention.

Rahul Reddy

Rahul Reddy is the founder of Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters. With Subko, Rahul intends to help reimagine the Indian Subcontinent as a legitimate contributor to the global specialty coffee movements. The conception of Subko began in December 2018, and cemented itself in February, 2019, when Rahul decided to leave behind careers in the technology, social enterprise, and risk analyst worlds to train as an apprentice at a specialty coffee company called City of Saints in Brooklyn, New York. There, he learned the art of profile roasting coffee as a roasting apprentice, learned specialty brewing, packaging, producing cold brew, and farm level green bean buying. He also completed what is considered the coffee world’s most rigorous ‘sommelier’ certification, requiring him to pass 21 sensory analysis exams around coffee, called the Specialty Arabica Q Grader.