SYLWIA STACHYRA

Sylwia Stachyra is the winner of the 7th edition of Top Chef Polska and the most influential woman within the Polish Hospitality Industry. She’s an amazing cook combining both passion and education - she achieved the highest chef’s degree NVQ3, run 2 restaurants, created tons of thriving concepts for gastronomy-based businesses and honed her skills from Gordon Ramsay. Sylwia was the only winner of Polish edition of TOP CHEF to take part in the TOP CHEF WORLD ALL STARS competition, alongside the best chefs from around the world. This is a huge international success, but she has an appetite for more. TOP CHEF WORLD is just an apetizer on her goals menu. What has she prepared for the main course?

Hungry for knowledge and new experiences. Spent years travelling and cooking on yachts, visiting places and getting to know different cultures which made a huge impact on her and her cooking style. Her taste buds were shaped by her travels: England, Turkey, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Japan, Cyprus and more. Each of these trips was an adventure, each filled with the taste of regional specialities, the aroma of the best spices and the colours of local markets. She absorbs the cuisines of the world with her whole being, although she is never fully satisfied - and she still has an appetite for more. Her passion is French cuisine, her thing is using local ingredients, and her autograph is a pinch of Asian spices. Combining them she creates dishes that conquer the palates and hearts.

Food is an art and cooking is more than just a skill - it’s a passion, taste and a lot of humility. She passes her knowledge on by collaborating with restaurants in Poland and around the world. She works as an independent consultant, gives lectures at the University in Lublin, designs tasting menus and makes her own projects happen. Sylwia has an extraordinary ability to talk about food - she takes you on a culinary journey full of wonderful aromas, unusual textures and original flavors.

Winning Top Chef was a huge honor and an ‘official stamp of approval’ of Sylwia’s talent and skills, but she is so much more than a Top Chef! She is a true craftswoman who not only knows her craft inside out, but also continues to push the culinary boundaries, inspire others and add a pinch of ‘Sylwia’s magic’ wherever she goes. Sylwia truly believes in the immense power of using fresh and local ingredients, loves French cuisine and wins palates, stomachs and hearts with her signature - ‘pinch of Asian spices’ skillfully included in her irresistible dishes.

Raised to be a lawyer, she became an excellent chef. She is from Lublin - she grew up there and studied law at the Catholic University of Lublin. Although she loves travelling, she created her home and her place on earth there. Proud of her hometown and local food, she proves that inspiration for unusual recipes can be found everywhere.

Restaurants:
Tutto Bene - Warsaw | Trava - Warsaw | Park Cafe - Konstancin | Willa Jocker- Nowy Dwór Gdański | Stowarzyszenie Stara Krzyżowa - near Bolesławiec | Berberys Park Hotel - Kazimierz Dolny | Willa Pod Basztą - Kazimierz Dolny | ABC pizza - Lublin | Wgorze Zamkowe - Kazimierz Dolny | Święty Spokój - Lublin | Karafka - Bydgoszcz | La rosa - Bydgoszcz

Organizations:
ING Bank Śląski | DNB Bank - Santander Bank | Maersk Polska | Coca Cola Polska | C.H Robinson | Regent College | Nature University of Lublin | City of Lublin | Warta | Savicki | Telka | Polmak | Hula Optyk | Dr. Irena Eris | Made For | Bioberry | Polskie e-płatności | Medika | Promenada Atrium | Polaroid