Elli Diamantidaki

Experienced and Passionate Pastry Chef de Partie with over eleven years of industry experience, creating innovative and highly pleasing desserts for restaurants, events, and fine dining affairs. Adept in creating artisan breads, desserts, pastries, chocolates, and a variety of confections. Bringing forth advanced pastry techniques, food safety knowledge and a strong understanding of the principles of pastry design.

This real-world expertise is bolstered by several relevant qualifications from accredited institutions as well as awards. I'm searching for a company which can enable me to further perfect my skills within a healthy and friendly environment. I also look to becoming a key member of a team, employing my talents to improve performance, instil organisation and innovation to the workplace.

Pastry Chef de Partie - Scott's Mayfair - London

(2024-08)

• Holding Scott's Mayfair Daily preparation according to the menu
• Assistant with new a la carte desserts
• Preparing desserts for different functions and taking care of the a la carte service

Pastry Production Supervisor, Pastry Chef de Partie - Home House private membership club - London

(2023-05 - 2024-05)

• Prepare and plan of restaurant and event Pastry menu
• Supervision of Pastry section
• Ongoing training of kitchen staff
• Assist the Head chef
• Assign jobs to kitchen staff

Pastry Production Supervisor, Chef de Partie - Nammos - Doha, Qatar

(2022-04 - 2023-01)

• Ongoing training of kitchen staff
• Assist the executive chef
• Maintain staff quality assurance levels
• Assign jobs to kitchen staff

Pastry Production Supervisor, Chef de partie - Nammos - Mykonos, Greece

(2022-04 - 2022-10)

• Supervise coordinate and assist in the activities of the events
• Supervising the tray setup according to menus and specifications
• Ongoing training of kitchen staff

Pastry Chef, Chef de partie - Nammos - Dubai, Arab Emirates

(2020-03 - 2022-04)

• In charge of the daily production of pastries
• Prepared pastry orders for everyday and planned events

Assistant Pastry chef - Apollonio bakery patisserie - Athens, Greece

(2019-08 - 2020-03)

• Daily production of confections
• Decoration of birthday cakes

Pastry chef - Bread Factory - Athens, Greece

(2019-01 - 2019-08)

• Section Manager for the daily production of ice-cream and confections

Assistant Pastry chef - Bakery and Pastry - Athens, Greece

(2018-08 - 2018-11)

• Selected ingredients based on seasonal availability and quality
• Oversaw daily recipe preparation, food storage, cooking and presentation
• Produced exceptional pastry items based on the needs of the company

Pastry chef - Paul Boulangerie Patisserie - Athens, Greece

(2017-11 - 2018-09)

• Handled all aspects of daily pastry production
• Formally commended by the Executive Chef for significantly improving unique menu selections and preparations
• Presenting the façade of the shop with new pastries

Pastry Chef - Sunny Resort 5*Hotel - Halkidiki, Greece

(2017-04 - 2017-10)

• Manager at the fine dining patisserie of Fresco
• Introduced new desserts on a monthly basis
• Specialized in the creation of gourmet cookies, pies and ice-cream
• Enhanced employee retention and morale by tactfully promoting team environment, emphasizing guest relations, and instituting a positive means of dealing with stress in a high volume operation

Assistant Pastry chef - Restaurant IVI - Athens, Greece

(2016-02 - 2017-03)

• All aspects of food preparation and handling
• Obtaining and competing customer orders
• Prepared special desserts
• Created a large variety of pastries and confections
• Created special cakes for customers and for restaurant events
• Aimed to achieve high levels of client satisfaction, which resulted in a high rate of repeat clients

Etoile by les chefs - Gastronomy and Hospitality - Institute of professional education of Athens (2015-09 - 2017-06)

Web-Designer developer - Web Design - Institute of professional study in Athens (2012-09 - 2014-06)

Apolytirion of Lykeio - Secondary school education, Patras (2003-09 - 2006-06)