Chef Leila Kristiansen

About Chef

As a chef, Leila likes to focus on cooking technique and bringing out the maximum flavor of the ingredients. She believes it is important to know the fundamental skills, flavors and history of a dish/cuisine before deconstructing and reinventing it. Playing with food is fun, it pushes us to constantly improve our skill set and broaden our understanding of flavor and texture. She enjoys the creativity cooking and baking  allows.

She has been working in professional kitchens since the age of 16, working up the ladder with each new job.  The past 9 years Leila has been working as a private chef & business owner (Comptoir du Cidre) in Berlin. The last 3 of those years was focused on catering lunches and events for companies.

She gained knowledge at College LaSalle, DEC Fashion & Costume Design in 2001-2005 in Montreal, Quebec.

She has small bussiness owner experience: Leila & Sidney Kristiansen GmbH (part owner of a gastronomy and French cidre import company based in Berlin), Comptoir du Cidre Catering in Berlin (head chef), Street Food Stands in Europe (Little Fat Girl Gorditas, Honolulu Dogs, Cidre Steak), Comptoir du Cidre Bar & Tapas, Berlin Germany & Copenhagen Denmark, Comptoir du Cidre Import, Berlin German & Rouen France, Private Chef in Berlin.

Professional experience: No hablo Espanol, Berlin Germany (prep cook), La Sala Rossa, Montreal Canada (breakfast cook, chef, pastry chef), Casa del Popolo, Montreal Canada (baker), Hurley’s Irish Pub, Montreal Canada (short order cook, breakfast cook, sous chef).

Publications: So frühstückt die Welt: Rezepte und Geschichten (Cookbook in German), Liquid Berlin: Die Stadt trinkt! (Tour guide to Berlin’s beverage scene in German & English), Let’s meet at the kitchen table: Vegetarian recipes from migrants.

Cities

Wrocław + 15 km

Foreign Languages

English, German