The 2021 Specialized Cookbook Publisher - Best In The World by Gourmand Awards, award-winning author Flavel Monteiro has been in the F & B hospitality industry since 1991. His foray into publishing came when he purchased a franchise to publish the Millionaire Magazine in Scandinavia and later a Filipino magazine in the Middle East. It was in 2014 when Flavel created and launched WG Magazine, defining dining opportunities and culinary experiences with chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants, culinary royalty, celebrity fine dining, and culinary lifestyles worldwide. Besides teaming up with some of the best chefs in the world, Flavel collaborated and partnered with some of the best culinary events and chefs worldwide. In 2018, he partnered with Chef Alfredo Russo, Dolce Stil Novo, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Turin, Italy and launched EX.IT—Extraordinary Italian.
Dubbed the chef’s whisperer, Flavel was the recipient of the 2019 Independent Publishers Award for his book Coffee: Absolute Gastronomy, the same year he was awarded the Best Book in the World by the Gourmand Awards for Coffee: Absolute Gastronomy and Legacy
2020 was a culinary book year - Flavel released six books: Come Together: The World’s Finest Chefs on Easter Sunday to put smiles on people’s faces. He published and coauthored the first-ever eBook Home Comforts with The World’s 50 Best Restaurants & Bars. Weeks later Cuisinero: Taste The Philippines was released, a book to help educate and feed children in the Philippines and The Best Of Dubai: A Dining Experience. Flavel was awarded the 2021 Best in the World by Gourmand Awards for five of his six books and the 2021 Specialized Cookbook Publisher.
In 2021, Flavel released The Best of Dubai: A Dining Destination and later that summer, he released Come Together For India, a culinary mela with some of the finest Indian chefs. Back To Our Roots came by accident; inspired by a conversation in 2021 between Vikas Khanna and Flavel, the book went on to receive the 2022 The Future Foods 21st Century by Gourmand at the Umeå Food Symposium in Sweden and received the Best Specialized Cook Publisher for the Best Books of 25 years of Gourmand Awards. At Expo 2020 Dubai, Flavel curated 70 of the finest chefs in the world at The Jubilee Gastronomy. He also went on to do the Cartier gala for 700 guests with one of France’s finest chefs.
Marking World Food Day on October 16th October 2022; Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), and Flavel jointly launched the “Dine. Feed. Educate” initiative to raise funds in support of the education of underprivileged children globally. Flavel released Dine. Feed. Educate - 7 Chefs, 7 Restaurants, 1Initiative.
On the same day, he released The Great Indian Khichdi with 50 of the finest Indian chefs from North America to New Zealand with their unique take on this beautiful age-old onepot dish.
November 2023, Flavel was honoured for The Best of Dubai by Gourmand Awards in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for Food Tourism.
Gourmand Awards celebrates 30 years in 2024 – 2025 with the BEST OF THE BEST GOURMAND AWARDS 30 YEARS with 202 countries and regions and 1,450 books – under U.A.E., Flavel celebrates with three of his books on this prestigious list. “Your book is an important milestone for gastronomy - Edouard Cointreau, Gourmand Awards, President and Founder”.
On 19 November, 2024, Flavel was awarded the Media Award by the Indian Food & Beverage Awards.