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.