Sibilla
OUR GOODMAN FAMILY
Meet Sibilla, one of our waitresses at Goodman Mayfair.
Keen explorer and waitress Sibilla had a very good reason for working in hospitality: “It’s the only job that allowed me to travel and find a job in every place.” Her favourite ice cream (including chocolate and anything) is rum and raisin, the first CD she bought was System Of A Down’s first album and she grew up supporting Taranto because “my family is crazy for football so even if you’re not into it as a kid, you get brainwashed.”
Sibilla has been part of the Goodman Mayfair family for 4 years.
But, in all honesty, I’ve worked in hospitality since I was 16, in different companies, countries and I’ve never found a place like this in terms of service, food, the people, everything.”
“It’s the Goodman way, isn’t it?
Sibilla has been part of the Goodman family twice. Initially at Canary Wharf, she left around 2015 to backpack through Asia for a year: “I turned 30 and decided to have the adventure of a lifetime.”
Returning to London, she ran Monsieur Le Duck until it closed in Covid. There was a brief detour home to Italy, but as Sibilla says, “Italy was very strict about lockdown, and it was difficult to find a job and,” she adds with a grin, “stay home with my parents, so I decided to come back to London for a couple of months… four years ago” and join Goodman Maddox.
On the subject of the food… “Bone-In Ribeye. One kilogram. Charred. Rare.” Anything else. Sibilla shakes her head. “Nothing else. Pure. No starter, no side, no dessert… well, maybe dessert. The tiramisu.” And anything to drink. “Old Fashioned. Always. I love it. Wine, maybe. But here, at Goodman, I’m focusing on the food.”
You may, of course, have noticed Sibilla’s spectacular tattoo. The story behind it is simple – “I love cats” – but there is a strange punchline. “The day I got this tattoo, I was walking home and a cat that looked exactly like the one in my tattoo followed me home. So I adopted him.”
Credits
Interview by Neil Davey
Photography by Tom Bowles