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Lefteris Lazarou: The Michelin star I got is of particular importance because I only cook fish

"It's a difficult competition, there are five of us in the whole world" added the chef

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Lefteris Lazarou, the owner of Michelin star Varoulko Seaside Restaurant, spoke about how his work has influenced his life, and also about the Michelin star he won years ago.

The chef gave an interview to the show “Pame Danae” where he first mentioned the Michelin star, as the first Greek to receive this distinction. On this, he commented: “It’s a lifetime’s work.

Thirty years of caps and other distinctions of course, as well as the Michelin star. To this day, “Varoulko” and Lazarou maintain it on a difficult track, because I do pure fish, only. In the whole world there are only five of us, so this star has a special significance.”

Along the way, Lefteris Lazarou was asked to comment on MasterChef, a project he himself participated in several years ago.

On the reality cooking show, he pointed out: “First of all, I don’t watch it, I don’t even watch the ones I participated, I’m afraid I wasn’t good.

When the camera enters the house a lot of things change, it’s not that it bothers me, I’m not interested in that kind of thing. It’s outside of me something like that.”

When asked about his personal life as a chef, Lefteris Lazarou said: “We’re talking about personal life, that’s where your partner has to put up with you.

He has to be determined that if you are a chef, you will get home at 3 o’clock at night.”

“Do they accept it easily?” the reporter asked, with Lefteris Lazarou replying: “Don’t ask me, look at the divorces, I have two, what can I answer? I can’t know, it’s a very difficult job.”

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Finally, he was asked about the most difficult moments in his life, to which the chef replied, “The death of people who were very close to me.

My brother, who was both my father and my friend, who raised me, passed away.

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It was a very difficult time. A pregnancy of my first wife where we lost a child.

The death of a very good friend.

So the kitchen for me is therapy, I’m breaking out.”

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