Awards & Recognition

  • Best Female Chef award as part of the inaugural MENA’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022
  • MBC Top Chef Season 4 Finalist – 4 challenges won in a row including Quarter-final and semi-final 
  • Co-host of Vice Arabia and Munchies series ‘Mal Awaal’ Showing on Munchies global, and Vice Arabia Channels
  • Runner-up – Bahrain Delonghi Chef Competition competition (2017) at The Ritz Carlton Bahrain
  • Runner-up – “Chopped” competition judged by Chef Wolfgang Puck (2015) at his Four Season’s Bahrain Restaurant The Cut.
  • Bronze Medal – Dubai World Hospitality Championship (2014) as member of the Bahrain team.
  • IAA Social Media Award (2013)
  • Personal home business “Baked by T” social media account awarded by Information Affairs Authority (Bahrain)
  • TCBY Frozen Yogurt Co. collaboration (2013) Invitation to collaborate on new yogurt flavor as “Baked by T” 
  • Currently, she is Chef Patron at Fusions by Tala restaurant, in the five-star Gulf Hotel in Bahrain, being the first Bahraini with a restaurant at a 5-star hotel.