From there came stints with Alain Ducasse, the Pourcel brothers, and “under Lord (Charles) Forte at the Hyde Park Hotel, when Marco Pierre White was there”. It’s these years, he says, that have fuelled the Dover as much as the obvious career highlight, namely 16 years with the Soho House group, many as COO. When he joined, there were four houses and “when I left in , we had 60. It was an amazing journey.”Was it a tough split? No, because Nick Jones stepped down as CEO, Kuczmarski explains. “I said to him, ‘We did this for 16 years together, if you don’t want to do it, I don’t want to do it.’” As simple as that? “I was taking 150 flights a year and I thought, ‘This is not what I signed up for’. I love Soho House, but I was not in love. Like with a partner, when you don’t have goosebumps anymore.”
