Chefs

Chef Ayesha Kalaji is Executive Chef and Owner of Queen of Cups in Glastonbury. Ayesha was raised in North Wales and her familial and gastronomic heritage is Jordanian. Her dishes are her own interpretation of Middle Eastern cuisine; it is food seen through her lens using local produce and ingredients to create food that feels true to herself, her area and her ideas.

Packed with natural talent, Ayesha’s first professional training took place at Leith’s. With a passion and dedication to food, she trained as a butcher at the highly acclaimed Parsons Nose in West London, before beginning her first kitchen job at The Palomar. She then joined Michelin starred Sosban in Anglesey, moving on to The Good Egg and then Bubala in London. She opened Queen of Cups in the spring of 2021, a 17th century coaching inn, turned modern Middle Eastern restaurant.