In a heart-warming initiative, Moroccan-born Chef Khalid Dahbi has opened one of his restaurants in London to cook food for the poor and the city's homeless people amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. During the lockdown, the Rabat-native and some of his employees who volunteered to take part to this initiative, prepare food boxes that they deliver across the city. Speaking to London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Chef Dahbi said that he rented five mini vans to make his mission possible. «After the government had decided to close restaurants in London, I closed my restaurant Beso, located in the Covent Garden area in central London, and Quintessentially that I run», Dahbi said. «I felt overwhelmed by this feeling of sadness for the homeless in London and health workers who are in the frontline facing this virus», he regretted. Dahbi then decided to open the kitchen of his restaurant Quintessentially to cook for these people. After helping the city's poor by distributing food boxes he cooked in his restaurant, Dahbi decided to donate these boxes to health workers around London. He delivers food to health workers at the Euston Emergency Services and the Royal Hospital. In total, Dahbi and his team prepare 150 food boxes every day. For the record, Chef Dahbi was born in Rabat to a food-aficionado family. At the age of 16 he left Morocco to start a new life in Europe away from his family. The young man headed to Switzerland, where he worked as a volunteer. Diaspo #76 : Khalid Dahbi, London's Moroccan chef and luxury entrepreneur Later in life, Dahbi became one of London's most famous chefs after working with some of the finest chefs in the country, from Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White to Jamie Oliver. Dahbi became a Resident chef at the Quintenssentially Group, a British concierge company headquartered in London. In June 2018, Dahbi brought his skills and experience into the spotlight by establishing the Beso Moorish food project.
