Chef Dessi De Vries

• Wide and extensive expertise in fine dining concepts, VIP events, banqueting & kitchen management. Worked with leading luxury Hotels & Resorts, Michelin starred restaurants Royal Dutch family, Kings, Queens & Presidents ;

• Chef by profession, passion and inclination. Certified at the highest level in Culinary Arts & kitchen-management, culinary instructor

• Skilled & informed food critic/judge in many “Iron Chef” TV shows, life cooking shows, professional magazines and exhibitions ;

• Over 22 years of international experience in 10 different countries, over 3 different continents with small & large multi-cultural brigades ;

• Classic French trained, very wide knowledge & experience in Mediterranean-,Asian-, Fusion- and Molecular cuisine

I studied in ROC Leiden and graudated with a degree in Culinary arts & Kitchen management. I worked as an Executive Sous Chef at the Minor Hotel Group and eventually the Executive Chef in the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts at Mumbai, India. Currently I am the Regional Culinary Director of the Jaz Hotel Group in Egypt.