Marlon Abela

Marlon Abela (born 1975) is a Lebanese-born British restaurateur, businessman and columnist. He is the founder and chairman of the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC), a privately owned international hospitality company based in Mayfair, London.

Marlon Abela was born in Lebanon in 1975. His father, Albert Abela, was the chairman of the Abela Group, a catering business, and a luxury hotelier. His mother, Barbel, is German.

Abela grew up in Grasse, France, and Monaco.

Abela started working for his father's business at the age of seventeen. By 2001, he served as its executive vice president.

Abela founded the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC) in 2001. The company is headquartered in Mayfair. Abela serves as its chairman. Via the company, he is the owner of Umu and The Greenhouse, two restaurants in Mayfair, London. Both restaurants received two Michelin stars. He is also the owner, since 2016, of The Square restaurant and of Morton's Club, a private members club on Berkeley Square in Mayfair. In Manhattan, New York City, he owns another restaurant called A Voce.

With François Payard, Marlon Abela co-founded François Peyard Bakeries, a chain of bakeries. In 2014, Marlon Abela acquired the historical wine merchant OW Loeb.In early 2018, a series of delays in payments to suppliers and deliveries to clients, which have since been addressed and sorted, triggered a series of hostile press articles. Marlon Abela firmly reiterated his commitment to O.W. Loeb despite a challenging economic and political context in the UK. An entirely new team is now at the helm of OW Loeb.

Abela is also a columnist for Spear's Magazine, where he writes about wine.

In 2011 Marlon Abela married Nadya Abela, originally from Russia and they have two children together. Marlon has two more children from his first marriage ..