Bernice Kariuki Quits As Arsenal Team Chef

After two years at Arsenal, celebrated private chef Bernice Kariuki has announced she is leaving the English Premier League football team.

Under the leadership of Arsenal’s executive chef, Kariuki has been cooking exclusively for first-team players, the management team and members of the clubโ€™s technical bench.

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Announcing her departure in a social media post on Sunday, she said Arsenalโ€™s 2022/2023 campaign was the best season for Arsenal, noting that it was humbling to work for the club.

โ€œA final day flourish. Finished the season with a bang! Simply the best!!! Arsenalโ€ฆ Arsenalโ€ฆ Arsenal.. 2020/2023 the best special season ever I hang my gloves as a very proud chef itโ€™s been a honour working for the best club in the whole worldโ€ฆ I was truly humbled!โ€ she wrote.

The chef also thanked Kenyans for their support, adding:ย โ€œMore blessings my next job itโ€™s like dream royally truly humbledโ€ฆ Asanteni sana especially my country.โ€

Bernice Kariuki quits as Arsenal team chef

Born and raised in Nairobiโ€™s Jericho Estate, Kariuki joined Arsenalย in mid-2021,ย on the heels of Mikel Artetaโ€™s appointment as Arsenal’s manager, as the first-team private chef.

“A girl from the ghetto Jericho living nothing but her dreams. May I reintroduce myself as Arsenal’s first-team private chef,” wrote Bernice on social media at the time following her appointment.

She also managed the daily well-being and nutrition of the team before and after matches, as well as menus for the travelling team.

Berniceโ€™s resume boasts of past stints as a chef for swanky hotels in the United Kingdom, including The Lanesborough, The Dorchester and The Waldorf Hilton in London.

She is an alumnus of Westminster Kingsway College in London, where she studied culinary arts.

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