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Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
About Akis Petretzikis
- Georgios Evlampios (Akis) Petretzikis (born 4 March 1984) is a Greek celebrity chef.
- Born and raised in Thessaloniki, he started working on the family business when he was 16 years old.
- When he turned 18, he moved to Athens to study Accounting and Finance in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens.
- He also started studying in a culinary school.
- In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom where he worked for 5 years.
- In 2010, he returned to Greece to take part in the competitive cooking show The Master Chef.
- Six months later he was named the 1st Greek Master Chef.
- He appeared in the morning show To Proino Mou (My Morning) from 2012 to 2014.
- From 2012 until 2014 he worked as a Head Chef in Michel Roux’s restaurant Avenue Bistro in the Metropolitan Hotel.
- In 2014, he started his own web cooking show on his YouTube channel, Kitchen Lab.
- He also started Akis’ Kitchen, an English-language web cooking show.
- Since 2014, he has hosted various cooking shows: Kan’ to opos o Akis (Do it like Akis, 2014–2016), Istories apo ti lista (Stories from the list, 2014-2015), Mia valitsa gemati gefsis (A suitcase full of flavors, 2016–2017), Ready, Steady, Cook (2016–2017), and Kitchen Lab (2017–2019).
- Since 2015, he is collaborating with Fresh One Productions making recipes for Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube channel.
- He is one of the 15 official affiliates of the channel.
- Petretzikis is the CEO of Akis Petretzikis Ltd – a company that publishes cooking magazines and books, produces cooking shows, runs restaurants and an e-shop with various gifts and kitchen products, designed by himself.
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