‘The future of dining’? AI chef heads kitchen at futuristic new Dubai restaurant
Dishes at Woohoo are created by ‘Chef Aiman’, a large language model trained on thousands of recipes, flavour pairings and food data
On a slow afternoon a few years ago, Dubai restaurateur Ahmet Oytun Cakir was in his office considering menu inspiration. The hospitality veteran, whose empire includes the popular hang-outs BohoX and Rove, then had a brainstorm: he would turn to ChatGPT.
“It was amazing, amazing,” he recalls. “Immediately we shot the photo, we put it on the menu. It became a bestseller.”
That hit dish sparked a bolder thought: what if an entire restaurant could be powered by artificial intelligence?
Fast-forward to September 2025, when Cakir’s company, Gastronaut Hospitality, debuted Woohoo, an all-AI concept steps from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
The restaurant, billed by the group as “the future of dining”, is fronted by “Chef Aiman”, a large language model trained on thousands of recipes, flavour pairings and food data.