Malu’s Deli and Le Garage Change Hands
There are changes afoot in the El Gouna Marina restaurant management landscape. Our acclaimed and respected Marlis Sèves is selling her two restaurants Malu’s Deli and Le Garage due to health problems. It is sad to learn of this news and wish Marlis a speedy recovery. In the meantime, the new owners have vowed to keep Marlis’ successful formula untouched.
Gouna News sat down with both owners and can report both restaurants will be in very capable hands. But first, it is fitting to recount Marlis story, her love for El Gouna and the positive impact she had on it, a true inspiration.
Marlis Seves opened a boutique, Bollywood, in the marina in 2004. It carried Indian fashion. Marlis sold it 2 years later because of illness. Later in 2005 she created Buzzha beach restaurant at the kiteboarding club. She recalls how in those days it was far out, and there were no buildings around, no water or electricity. It was great and she loved it after having seen something similar in Dubai a few years earlier, and asked Orascom if she could build it. She sold it in 2010. In 2006 she created Pier 88 with the same concept as it is today and sold it 3 years later.
In 2010 she opened Le Garage Gourmet Burger and in 2016 she opened Malu’s Deli but is obliged to sell both now because of her health condition.
Marlis created these businesses without architects or engineers. She tried out her new ideas, bringing them to El Gouna. Le Garage was the first only burger restaurant in all of Egypt. She recalls how people thought she was crazy to do a burger restaurant. But she loves to build new restaurants, implement new ideas and not to copy anyone. She loves the big challenge and somehow, she says, needed the stress.
Being a single mother of a son now 29 years old, it was not easy, but success followed her. Marlis is from Switzerland. She came to Gouna for the first time in 2000. She loved it from the first moment and bought an apartment. She came frequently, and eventually, in 2003 decided to come and live in El Gouna permanently. Marlis still loves Gouna but will go back to Switzerland for health reasons, hoping to be back very often. As she says: ‘I can’t survive without the Gouna sun and sea!’
Marlis will complete the handover February 1st, 2018 to the new owners: Ludmila and Christophe at Le Garage, Joel at Malu’s Deli.
Ludmila is an experienced restauratrice from Ukraine. Having spent the last 10 years in el Gouna working first at Jobos then Maritim. With other partners she purchased Drumstick and turned it into Breeze. Next month she will be the new owner and manager of Le Garage with one partner : Christophe of Three Corners.
Joel Plozza from Switzerland will take over Malu’s Deli. He is qualified, having been there from the very beginning in 2016. He is a chef by education, having studied Hôtellerie in Zurich and having worked as a chef in one of Zurich’s best hotels. Marlis called asking if he would come. Now Joel is the new owner, and he is excited about the future.
Both new owners have no plans to make changes in offerings, staff or prices that will affect the legacy of Marlis.
Gouna News sat down with both owners and can report both restaurants will be in very capable hands. But first, it is fitting to recount Marlis story, her love for El Gouna and the positive impact she had on it, a true inspiration.
Marlis Seves opened a boutique, Bollywood, in the marina in 2004. It carried Indian fashion. Marlis sold it 2 years later because of illness. Later in 2005 she created Buzzha beach restaurant at the kiteboarding club. She recalls how in those days it was far out, and there were no buildings around, no water or electricity. It was great and she loved it after having seen something similar in Dubai a few years earlier, and asked Orascom if she could build it. She sold it in 2010. In 2006 she created Pier 88 with the same concept as it is today and sold it 3 years later.
In 2010 she opened Le Garage Gourmet Burger and in 2016 she opened Malu’s Deli but is obliged to sell both now because of her health condition.
Marlis created these businesses without architects or engineers. She tried out her new ideas, bringing them to El Gouna. Le Garage was the first only burger restaurant in all of Egypt. She recalls how people thought she was crazy to do a burger restaurant. But she loves to build new restaurants, implement new ideas and not to copy anyone. She loves the big challenge and somehow, she says, needed the stress.
Being a single mother of a son now 29 years old, it was not easy, but success followed her. Marlis is from Switzerland. She came to Gouna for the first time in 2000. She loved it from the first moment and bought an apartment. She came frequently, and eventually, in 2003 decided to come and live in El Gouna permanently. Marlis still loves Gouna but will go back to Switzerland for health reasons, hoping to be back very often. As she says: ‘I can’t survive without the Gouna sun and sea!’
Marlis will complete the handover February 1st, 2018 to the new owners: Ludmila and Christophe at Le Garage, Joel at Malu’s Deli.
Ludmila is an experienced restauratrice from Ukraine. Having spent the last 10 years in el Gouna working first at Jobos then Maritim. With other partners she purchased Drumstick and turned it into Breeze. Next month she will be the new owner and manager of Le Garage with one partner : Christophe of Three Corners.
Joel Plozza from Switzerland will take over Malu’s Deli. He is qualified, having been there from the very beginning in 2016. He is a chef by education, having studied Hôtellerie in Zurich and having worked as a chef in one of Zurich’s best hotels. Marlis called asking if he would come. Now Joel is the new owner, and he is excited about the future.
Both new owners have no plans to make changes in offerings, staff or prices that will affect the legacy of Marlis.
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