BM appoints pop-up guru

BM has appointed Sunil Varma to the role of pop-up chef to oversee the development of bespoke and modern street food concepts across the company. The role involves identifying food trends for the business and designing concepts around these, reflecting London’s evolving food culture.   

Varma has worked for BM over the last 10 years across a number of sites and is also a part-time DJ. As part of this activity, he also develops specific playlists to accompany each cuisine, something that has become hugely popular with guests. 

During his time, he has developed vegetarian-focused food concepts that took inspiration from the diets of countries with the longest life expectancy. He adopted dishes, ingredients and trends from nations such as Japan, Switzerland and Macau to explore creative ways in which BM could offer healthier dishes to customers.  

Prior to this, he held head chef positions at other foodservice firms including Aramark, Compass and Restaurants at Work, as well as at healthy meal delivery service Fresh Fitness Food and high street chain Giraffe. He also spent four years as a chef de partie at Peter Gordon’s Sugar Club in Soho, London  

Varma said: “I’m so excited to have been tasked with heading up BM’s pop-up and street food offering. Having been a part of the BM family for the last decade, I’ve seen how well pop-ups go down both with our customers and teams, and I can’t wait to explore and share the brilliant new concepts I have in mind with the teams.” 

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