Jad Youssef will be cooking delicious food, chatting, answering your questions and signing his debut cookbook Lebnani

Join us for lots of chat, tasters & book signing

In Lebnani celebrated chef Jad Youssef invites readers to experience the warmth, generosity and depth of Lebanese food through authentic recipes passed down through generations of his family. Jad takes us to the recipes and stories that shaped his life in Beirut and beyond and celebrates Lebanese cooking as it is truly lived and eaten.

Jad Youssef is chef patron of the award-winning Lebnani in Reigate, Surrey. Jad was born in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, the youngest of six siblings. He learnt to cook in his mother Khadija’s kitchen and in his father’s pastry shop before training at the Ecole Hoteliere in Beirut. After early work in local hotels and restaurants, he moved to Oslo in 2000 as Head Chef at Jeppe Restaurant, later relocating to London to lead the kitchen at Fakhreldine in Piccadilly and serve as Executive Chef at the Levant Group.

In 2009, Youssef founded Yalla Yalla in Soho, one of London’s first Lebanese street food restaurants, expanding to Fitzrovia and Greenwich in the following years. The restaurant received wide critical attention and achieved a cult following.

There will be delicious tasters and mulled wine. £5 of your ticket price is redeemable against the price of Lebnani on the night.

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