Team
"For me, hospitality is about welcoming, caring, and showing affection. The need to be cared for and welcomed is intrinsic to our species—after all, humans are perhaps the least autonomous animals in existence. We are social by nature: we cannot survive without belonging, without bonds, without the feeling of being seen and welcomed. That's why, in the end, what truly marks an experience is how we treat people. They may forget details of what they ate or drank, but they will never forget how we made them feel. That, for me, is the basis of hospitality: making each person who enters our restaurant feel seen—and, above all, leave feeling better than when they arrived." Katherina Cordás

Ivan Ralston
executive chef
Born in São Paulo, Ivan Ralston graduated in gastronomy from the Escuela de Hosteleria Hofmann in Barcelona and in music from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Throughout his career, he worked in the kitchens of the Michelin-starred El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Mugaritz in the Basque Country, and RyuGin in Tokyo, before opening Tuju in 2014.
Born to restaurant owners, Ivan grew up in the kitchen and gained prestige for his intensive research and development of Brazilian and regional producers and suppliers, highlighting the importance of understanding local ingredients.

Katherina Cordás
restauratrice
Gastronomic researcher Katherina Cordás specializes in the relationships between food, art, and society, and how these developments are reflected in local culture.
She holds a degree in art history and a postgraduate degree in research on visual representations of food. Born in São Paulo, she has lived in Barcelona, London, and Milan.
She writes about gastronomy for various media outlets around the world, in addition to teaching and giving lectures at courses and conferences. She is also the creator of the website Diga-me o Que Comes (Tell Me What You Eat), focused on gastronomic history and curiosities.

Lucas Medeiros
chef

Victoria Vendramini
R&D chef

Barbara Bettinassi
maître

Karine Sobreira
maître

Pedro Hemmel
maître

Melissa Maximo
head bartender

Thiago Frencl
sommelier

Tiago Menezes
sommelier

Edivaldo Lopes
maintenance manager

Fabiana Lopes
personnel department

Helena Guimaraes
communication and research

Adne Coelho
waitress

Alessandro dos Santos
waiter

Caiki Diegues
assistant waiter

Camila Barauna
waitress

Daniela Matos
human resources

Eduardo Santos
host and events

Beatriz Botelho
pastry chef

Carlos Vieira
bartender

Francisco Chagas
assistant waiter

Gabriela Lima
cook

Gabriel Silva
pastry cook

Gustavo Chiva
cook

Henry Leisnoch
cook

Lissa Pimentel
cook

Maria Lucia dos Santos
cleaning

Herbert Vieira
administrative

Maria Beatriz Makhlouf
cook

Matheus Gomes
cook

Ilda Flauzino
cleaning

Maria Eduarda Land
baker

Natalya Sá
assistant sommelier

Pilar Coutinho
cook

Rafael Correia
cook

Thais Skurtinski
waitress

Yuzo Nakasone
cook


