Restaurateur Biography Wikipedia

The founder, as well as one of the owners of Hurma Group of Companies, restaurateur and owner of several bars. Childhood and youth October of the year were marked by one of the most important events not only for a certain circle of people, but for the whole country. In addition, at this event, the public presented the first gastronomic release of the guide for the restaurant institutions of the city.

Among the institutions recommended in it was the restaurant known to the regulars as “Riesling Boyz”. By the way, the owners of the restaurant were Gosha Karpenko and his comrade Dmitry Levitsky, who are approaching their work with the only principle: "either cool or nothing." Dmitry Levitsky was born in the capital of Russia on May 17. His parents were Julia Zinovievna and Alexander Grigoryevich, who got married about a year before a joyful event.

When the boy was five years old, he had a younger sister, who was named Natalia. It is worth noting that the parents of the future restaurateur met when the father only entered the Higher Education, while the mother graduated from the tenth grade. The wedding of lovers took place several years later, when they were both students of Baumanka. Dmitry Levitsky in the future, telling about the family, Dmitry Alexandrovich assured that she was the most ordinary, correct and “truly” Soviet.

Of the childhood, Levitsky well remembered walks with his father in the forest, the way they forth the potatoes with the whole family in the garage, as well as in twelve father for the first time allowed to drive his “Moskvich”. By the way, the guy broke the car soon. In the childhood of his biography, the boy spent a lot of time in a provincial town, where life was not very diverse.

It was here that his favorite dish became a vegetable salad with pepper, eggplant, as well as with tomato under mayonnaise. If we talk about the family of the famous owner of the restaurant business, then it is necessary to recall the name of Grigory Levitsky, who survived the three wars. So, in M, when he was only twenty-one years old, the guy went to the Soviet-Finnish Front, leaving his native Ukraine and a small village in the Kyiv region.

After he was sent to the Great Patriotic War and, together with the winners, reached Koenigsberg. Upon the return of the leadership, he was sent to the Soviet-Japanese Front, from where he was able to return to the family only by the year. The veteran, who survived and saw a lot in a few years, never talked about tragic events either to others, or even more than his family. The man never performed before schoolchildren, and for every day of victory, his wife forced him to put on orders.

His grave is located on the territory of the Poltava region in a town called Kremenchug, where a famous great -grandson visited only a year. Dmitry Levitsky, after school education was over, Dmitry Alexandrovich went to conquer the Higher School of Economics, where his first acquaintance with the restaurant business occurred. By the way, he was incredibly lucky, because there were about a hundred applicants for one place, and a foreign company promised to conduct training.

The restaurant business has worked as a bartender for some time and having gained a certain experience, the guy left the profession for almost a decade. Levitsky himself spoke about that time as follows: “For a long period I worked in retail and only later realized that I could advise and train someone. So the idea of ​​creating its own consulting company appeared, in which over time the restaurant business became a separate area.

In fact, I myself did not know how exactly the restaurant should work and how others work. I just found those who know. They became my assistants when the first bar opened. ” In the year, a new institution with an interesting name appeared in Moscow - “Pistol Dolls”. In fact, the owner conceived him as a place to meet friends than for the development of his own business.

When a crisis came in the country, the owners began to think about how to bring their brainchild in a plus and they succeeded. At the same time, his comrade Levitsky came to the decision and continue to develop in this direction. That is how a popular network with a ridiculous, but the speaking name "Darling, I will call you ..." appeared in Russia. Today, the president of the professional restaurant alliance owns not only restaurants throughout the country, but also bars, meat monocoption, crafting pub, tattoo salon, sushi bar with a cinema, as well as “pasta with a son” and a “thunderstorm” in Sochi.

In early December, Dmitry Alexandrovich and his longtime friend Gosha Karpenko, with whom they had previously launched the Hooligan projects “Sika: Sika”, Alcobufet “Shishlychny”, “Barny Association“ Trade Union ”,“ Sushi Rusalochk ”, launched in the test mode of Riesling Boyz. They may be familiar.