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Ivan Kukarskikh and Bogdan Panchenko

Founders of Lucky Group
Having traveled around Europe and gained experience, Bogdan and Ivan consciously moved towards the restaurant industry. Ivan opened the first BB Burgers project in 2013. Bogdan, helping his partner and close friend, was simultaneously engaged in supplying vegetables and fruits from Russian cities to large companies in the capital.
In the fall of 2017, together with brand chef Glen Ballis, was opened a joint project Margarita Bistro on the corner of Malaya Bronnaya street.
There are now 15 restaurants in the Lucky Group, which are united by values, attention to detail and most importantly – hospitality. In addition to restaurants, Lucky Group develops the areas of events, catering, training services and merch.

Tom Halpin

Brand chef
He started his career in 2004 in Australia at his mum's restaurant as a dishwasher. Afterwards, he had to help chefs and from that moment he focused on cooking. In 2010, after working in the best restaurants in Sydney, he left Australia and went to Denmark, where he spent 4 years at Noma restaurant. Since 2015, he has been travelling and cooking in as many different countries as possible. He considers creativity in everything important in his work. He believes, that creativity in cooking, in the atmosphere and in the feeling that must be given to every guest entering the restaurant are what can give a completely different approach to working as a chef.

Karina Dorovskaya

Head Manager
More than 16 years in the restaurant industry. Expert in meat consumption culture, 7 years of experience managing flagship steakhouse projects Goodman. She opened the MIDSUMMER project, generated ideas and solutions for the development of the chef's table concept. Developed and implemented high service standards. In 2024 she became part of the Lucky Group team as manager of the Bruno project.

Evgeniy Aleksandrov

Chef
He was born in the city of Pieta, Republic of Malta, where his father worked as a chef at the Russian Embassy. Inspired by his example, Evgeniy acquired a love and passion for gastronomy in childhood.
He trained in Italy, Germany, Denmark, where he worked with fresh local organic products and learned to cut up farm lambs. In the profession for more than 10 years. He worked with such famous chefs as: Oliver Dollard (UK), Kasper Gaard (Denmark), Gome Galily (Israel) and others.

Artyom Tokarevskikh

Bar Manager
In the HoReCa field since 2008. Worked his way up from a waiter to a manager and chain bar manager. In 2021 joined Lucky Group as a bartender at Londri and later took up the position of senior bartender. In 2024, he opened the restaurant Bruno as a bar manager.

Maria Trykova

Sommelier
In 2021, she left her career in finance and decided to connect her life with wine. She was educated at the Gorizont sommelier school and completed a professional course at WineState. In February 2022, she began working at the Maya restaurant, and in November of the same year she was invited to the position of head sommelier of the Niki restaurant. Since March 2024, she began to combine the management of two restaurants – 345 and Niki.
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