Chef Stergios Kozakis
My experience is the guarantee of your success
The love I have for cooking led me to leave my career as a computer scientist and start an exciting journey inside the kitchens. Cooking took me to many places, starting from my own restaurant in Drama, Greece all the way to New York City and London.
Anyone can see love, passion, and respect in my dishes.
Mediterranean cuisine is my expertise; I have spent years researching and developing the cuisine of my country, gaining a solid knowledge and understanding of it. Keeping as a basis the idea of creative simplicity, characteristic of the culinary tradition of Greece, I started incorporating new techniques and ingredients to it, ones that bring the tradition into the world of today’s cooking. Techniques such as sous vide, smoking, molecular gastronomy, combined with ingredients from all over the world create my new fusion modern recipes and dishes. My experiences in USA and Europe gave me a lot of insight into different cuisines and made me an international chef.
My career history demonstrates my outstanding communication and leadership skills as well as my reputation for being organised and dependable. Further, my record of leadership in the hospitality industry has resulted in measurable benefit to companies like Suvlaki Soho (UK), Modelo Lounge (UK), Nammos Restaurant (Greece), Blue Olive Market (USA), Kellari Taverna (USA), Heliostasio Restaurant (Greece), and Elysso Xenia Hotel (Greece).
Below are some examples of the value I can share with you
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Instrumental in leading restaurant operations, coordinating kitchen staff, organazing food preparation, creating/improving menus, achieving cost controls, and resolving complaints.
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Adept at coaching staff to peak performance levels through goal setting and career planning strategies.
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Possess exceptional communication, organisational, problem solving, and team leadership abilities.
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Experience in Fine and Casual dining and Chain/Multisite restaurants.
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Food hyygiene, Health and Safety, HACCP.
The culinary arts require harmony, love, soulfulness; and above all, simplicity and respect.
Kitchen design, equipment specifications, menu development, inventory, recipes development, recipe cost, targets, paper work and everything needed for a new opening are my expertise. My background in computer science, which requires organization skills, problem solving, algorithms and science, is useful knowledge that completes me as a chef.
The strongest, most important ingredient that I have is my love and passion for cooking. This passion keeps me ready to take up any challenge, has me looking forward to my next steps, and new accomplishments.
Stergios Kozakis
