We take restaurants from the site to opening day.
The right plot, before a single drawing.
Search, survey and shortlist against the concept: footfall, technical fit, landlord terms. Dubai is scanned; one site is chosen.
A premium restaurant, drawn to the last socket.
General arrangement, kitchen line, MEP and finishes — developed with architects, designers and kitchen consultants, kept inside budget and programme.
The drawing becomes volume.
FF&E, kitchen equipment and OS&E specified, tendered and scheduled — every piece lands on site exactly when the room is ready for it.
Built, finished, snagged, handed over.
Contractor management, MEP coordination, inspections and quality control — from the first wall to the last pendant, dining room and kitchen alike.
Every stamp, in the right order.
Dubai Municipality, DDA, Civil Defence, SIRA, DET, DEWA — approvals and licences managed as one sequence, so the opening date holds.
Lights on. Doors open.
Team recruited where required, every stage aligned — the restaurant opens on the date set at the first site visit.
SANA
Restaurant / Gastro-theatre
African Queen
Restaurant / Beach club
Cutfish Bistro
Japanese Izakaya
Krasota
Immersive gastro-theatre
EVA
Greek restaurant
Execution, not consulting.
An F&B project-execution studio founded by Ksenia Yushina. We take a restaurant from site selection to opening day and stay accountable for the whole sequence — programme, budget, authorities, contractors and suppliers.
Six stages. One team.
Each stage has a way of undoing the one before it. We run them as a single programme, so decisions made at the site visit still hold on opening night.
Location sourcing
Site search and evaluation against the concept, footfall, technical fit and landlord terms — shortlist, survey, LOI, lease.
Concept & design development
Brief to buildable drawings with architects, designers and kitchen consultants, aligned with budget and programme.
Procurement
FF&E, kitchen equipment and OS&E: specification, tendering, supplier management and delivery scheduling.
Fit-out & construction management
Contractor management, MEP coordination, authority inspections, quality control and programme tracking through to snagging and handover.
Licensing & approvals
Regulatory approvals and licences — DM, DDA, DCD, SIRA, DET, liquor and shisha — managed as one sequence.
Opening, budgets & people
CAPEX / OPEX planning and control, recruitment support where required, and the opening itself.
Five openings since 2023.
Japanese, Uzbek, Arabic, Mediterranean and Nikkei concepts — restaurants, beach clubs and gastro-theatres in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Ksenia Yushina
Founder of XSE Management — a senior executive in the construction industry with three engineering degrees. Experience began in capital construction, shopping centres and residential developments, before shifting to hospitality and fine dining.
Today she runs restaurant projects end to end across the MENA region: from the first site visit to the first guest, with the attention to detail a premium restaurant demands.
Start a project.
Tell us about the site, the concept and the timeline. We come back with a delivery plan: stages, programme and what it takes to open.