Idris Jaiyeola
Food Entrepreneur · Ikorodu
4–7 years cooking experiencePersonal information
- Full name
- Idris Jaiyeola
- Location
- Ikorodu
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Phone
- +2348148053446
- idrisolawale937@gmail.com
- Residential address
- 14, Banjoko street Igbogbo Ikorodu Lagos
- Social handles
- Kingjaye
Applicant profile
- Applicant type
- Food Entrepreneur
- Applicant type other
- A Nigerian chef, caterer, and the creative mind behind Kings Kitchen
- Current occupation
- CEO of kings kitchen
- Cooking experience
- 4–7 years
Competition experience
- Prior competitions
- Yes
- Competition details
- Delicious or disaster cooking competition show by Chef T. That was my first time in a competition and also first time in cooking in so much pressure and time. I was a wonderful experience and one thing I have learnt and that what push me to this platform is the time management and working under so much pressure
Competition readiness
- Available throughout competition
- Yes
Entrepreneurship and impact
- Runs a food business
- Yes
- Business name
- Kings kitchen premier catering
- Business type
- Restaurant, online delivery and event catering
- Years in operation
- 4 years in operation, life time in cooking
- Business challenge
- Publicity for my brand and craft
Culinary journey
My culinary journey started from when I was a child, seeing my mom and grandma cooking made me fall in love and made kitchen my safe place, where I express myself happy or unhappy and tell it on my plate, feeding hundreds of customers, owning a mini restaurant that’s cook variety of dishes most especially rice in different dimensions (we don’t acknowledge boring rice), catering for all kinds of events and still looking at doing more in the Nigeria culinary space
Cooking inspiration
I got inspires by what I feel, see and appreciate. The Nigeria culinary space, playing with flavor and colors. Some of our biggest chefs in this culinary space as made it so easy to see cooking as fun and appreciate our local ingredients and made it extraordinary
Signature dish
Hmmm my signature dish is playing with rice and pasta, playing with flavors, colors, local ingredients and proteins infusing it to extra richness and luxury set.
Why I want to participate
I’m not coming just to compete or participate alone, I’m coming to learn, to create, to represent Nigerian cuisine, and to prove that with passion, creativity and consistency, a chef that never attend a culinary school can stand proudly on any culinary stage. I am ready
What winning would mean
Do I want to win most definitely, yes the money is importance but they are some value worth more than money and that why me winning will mean a lot to me and my business. Whatever I do, I mostly do it for brand
