Relaunching our home Page

We've just relaunched our home page.

www.nepokitchenconsulting.se

octopus traps in southern Spain

Updated and refreshed the general background information.

A new link to this blog from the home page.

Information about our new Truffle import and sales venture here in Sweden.

Look out for our soon to be posted 2018 which is fast coming to a close. I am currently preparing for the upcoming FIS Alpine world championships in Åre during February 2019.

Below is some of of the back ground information from the site.

the tool box in the truffle shed

Nepo kitchen consulting

I am active within the scope of my workplace experience, our working environments include, hotel, catering and restaurant operations and their supportive networking businesses, suppliers, kitchen renovating, planning and staffing management.

With 30 years of international hotel & restaurant kitchen leadership experience can Nepo kitchen consulting offer a broad experience resource to strengthen, short and long-term projects and assignments, tailor made soloutions specifically aimed at different levels and challenges within your kitchen or food related industry.

We work parallel within an established company or project contracted in a specific kitchen role or contracted through a second party employment agency.

Our primal working area is Sweden, even international assignments are undertaken.

With our broad experience offers Nepo kitchen consulting the ability to tailor targeted solutions across a broad spectrum of industry challenges and missions.

BBQ brisket from the grill team

Vision

Nepo kitchen consulting ab is a professional kitchen consulting partner offering tailor made goal orientated solutions.

Customer focus, flexibility and receptiveness are our project key words.

Mission

Nepo kitchen consulting is active within the restaurant, hotel and supportive industries.

Our competence areas cover a wide spectrum of branch challenges we are comfortable with both short and long term projects.

With over 30 years experience within the hotel and restaurant industry its time to share this experience within our branch.

Neil

Born in Tasmania, Australia. Neil started his kitchen career as an apprentice chef. A trip to Europe became a life changing epoch, after two years’ experience and crammed with knowledge from London’s renowned Savoy Hotel, England. This became a stepping stone to many travels through Europe.

black lip abalone one of our Tasmanian specialities

Neil first came to Stockholm in the middle of the 80’s and started work at Operakällaren, a thorough initiation into Swedish cooking at all levels followed, Europe beckoned again, this time Vienna, after two years in the Austrian capital Neil returned to Stockholm working then in the gourmet restaurants l’Escargot and Villa Källhagen.

In the early 90’s Neil returned to Australia and took up employment as executive chef at the five-star Gold Coast International Hotel in Australia’s tourist Mecca Surfers Paradise. Back again 1994 in Stockholm and Sergel Plaza Hotel for five years as executive chef, after which Neil was head hunted to Berns with its extensive renovation and the implementation of Sir Terence Conran’s restaurant concept in Stockholm. Berns was then Stockholm’s biggest single restaurant complex.

From 2002 Neil worked as executive chef for 10 years at Hilton Stockholm Slussen. During this period Hilton Stockholm Slussen won among other allocates Arlas Guldko ”best hotel breakfast in Sweden", Neil competed in the national dish of Sweden cooking competition in 2009 and 2010. The hotel won various international environment prizes a common denominator through the kitchen philosophy which included even bee hives on the roof. In June 2012 Neil started at Quality Hotel Friends in Stockholm. Quality Hotel Friends is part of the Nordic Choice concern and is a newly built business hotel with 399 rooms, the hotel is situated in Arena Staden, Solna. The food & beverage operation straddled 3 floors of hot and cold kitchens that link together Friends Arena, opened in October 2012 and Quality Hotel Friends opened in October 2013. The food and beverage operation was colossal with up to 7500 sitting guests at a singular event. In October 2013 Neil left Friends Arena and started Nepo kitchen consulting as a self employed kitchen consultant.

All the best for Christmas and the New Year