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George Tsaparas
George (Giorgos) Tsaparas (Athens, December 13, 1989) is a Greek Chef, with ten years of experience in the gastronomy field. He studied at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, of the University of the Aegean (2007-2013), while he successfully graduated from the "Culinary Technician" department of IEK AKMI (2010-2013). [1] Alongside his studies, he also worked during his internship at various restaurants (2011, 2014).

Television
The chef has appeared in various cooking programs running on Greek television, on the channels MEGA (Namaste, 2015) and OPEN (Ela Hamogela, 2020), while at the moment an important collaboration of his is taking place, on the show Fishy (2021- 2023) with Yiannis Tsimitselis.[2]

Career
In the past, the Chef has worked as the Head Chef at Orizontes View Hotel (2014), Pausa Il Ristorante Rosso in Maroussi (2015-2016), Family All Day Bar Restaurant in Voula (2016-2017) and The Mandarin in Politia (2017-2018). He has also worked as Consultant Executive Chef at Christofer in Thessaloniki (2014), at Ristorante No.7 in Brussels (2015-2018), as well as at Indigo in Ilioupoli (2017-2019).

Today, he works as the Head Chef at IBO Restaurant in Kifissia, Executive Chef at Hyper Astro Bar in Athens (2021-2023), at Ruins Athens Urban Area in Kolonaki (2018-2023) and at Pefkaki Hotel in Loutraki (2017-2023), as well as a Consultant Executive Chef at The Flamingo Experience in Athens (2021-2023). He also collaborates often with well-known restaurants abroad, such as Alexandria, Ibiza, etc.[3]

While taking part in various collaborations, he has also been teaching cooking classes at IEK AKMI for the last 4 years. The chef has taken part in unique projects such as in "Cooking", in collaboration with the IEK AKMI and PEAND school, which is an effort to teach aspiring junior chefs who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He is still an active member in all EXPOTROF projects, where distinguished chefs prepare inspired recipes, using products from every corner of Greece.

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