Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui Appoints Ruslan Shipunov as Executive Chef

(10/04/23)  The Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui has appointed Ruslan Shipunov as Executive Chef.

Ruslan entered a professional kitchen for the first time as a 17-year old intern. The much-talked-about Russian cuisine that he had earlier read about in books came alive as he started working on suckling pigs, roast geese and beluga caviar.

Ruslan Shipunov

After three years at Hotel Uralski Dvor in Russia, Ruslan spent the next decade of his professional life mastering Russian gastronomy, whipping up delicacies at Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, W Hotel St. Petersburg and elsewhere, before joining the pre-opening team of the former Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace in St. Petersburg in 2013.

Ruslan later joined IDAM by Alain Ducasse in Doha for seven months, before returning to Four Seasons as pre-opening Sous Chef of the Four Seasons Dubai in 2014.

Ruslan moved to Thailand in 2019 as pre-opening Executive Sous Chef of the highly anticipated Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River.

“I am always hungry to learn and that has helped me create a fare that is soaked in local culture,” Ruslan said. “Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui boasts of a kitchen that adopts a sustainable approach with menus dished out from scratch. and I’m looking forward to working with the gardeners to see what we can do together. I love fusing ingredients together, smelling the scent of fresh food, preparing it with devotion, and finally watching people savour every spoon.”

When he’s not putting his culinary skills to use, Ruslan enjoys swimming and motorcycling.

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