Chef Michael Smerda

Private Chef In Fort Lauderdale
Chef Michael Smerda

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Food by design and eat simple the best.

I am a German chef with a Master's in culinary arts. I hosted my own cooking show in Augsburg and was able to publish three cookbooks in Germany. I’ve lived in America for nine years now. When I moved to the US I was the executive chef of two successful German restaurants, Hofbrau Haus and its sister restaurant Bavaria Haus. I was able to run these simultaneously for over two years. I then set my ambitions on the Miami food scene and felt I needed to expand my experience in America to something more upscale. For the next year, I was Executive Sous Chef in what was then one of the top 10 restaurants in Brickell, the great Coya. I then had an opportunity to take over, as Executive Chef, the Canvas restaurant at the iconic Sagamore art hotel, a historic Art Deco building in the heart of the south beach. I made this my home for over three years. In this building, I was recognized as the top 10 platings and food presentation, in South Beach, with the very popular Miami New Times. I believe I was able to prove I had a place in the Miami fine dining food scene. I was with Guy Fieri in the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, I also developed a new service business in customized 3D food printing and laser food engraving. This new technology let me customize and personalize food in so many ways. I never stop learning new techniques and food trends.

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For me, cooking is...

.... a religion. Very simple. Food is powerful. It influences our world, the way we live, and the way we enjoy life.

I learned to cook at...

Germany. I graduate in the Culinary Institut Kermes Munich with masters in culinary art

A cooking secret...

respect for the food.

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