Hamid Majdi grew up in the coastal city of Rabat in Morocco, where he ate bright, complex tagines and other dishes packed with layered flavors from Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, which the country’s chefs could access due to its central location in Northwest Africa. Majdi went on to go to hospitality school in Fez and worked as a maitre d’ in Morocco before winning a green card lottery and moving to Seattle in 2000 — a city he wanted to live in for its sharply evolving dining scene and access to nature.
Majdi stayed at a hotel near Pike Place Market during his first days in Seattle.
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