Mike Hamel

Who is Mike Hamel?

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  Insights into Mike's life

  My name is Mike Hamel and I am a passionate hobby cook. Men like me don't spend the weekend in the garage, but in the kitchen, because we share one passion: cooking. We invest a lot of money in good food and professional kitchen equipment, have shelves full of cookbooks, like to prepare meat and vegetables sous-vide and have endless fun spoiling our family and friends with star-level menus.
  

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  Mikes kitchen

  Cooking is love. I see myself as a culinary artist and I enjoy painting a colourful canvas of flavours on the palate of my guests. I want to cook for, beguile and pamper the people who are dear to me. I feel at home in pretty much every kitchen in the world and find it exciting to reinterpret old and traditional classics or give them a twist.

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  Why Mike?

  My benchmark is top gastronomy. And like so many men, I don't do things by halves. I also like to stand in the kitchen every evening for a week to prepare the mise en place for an 8-course menu. When we sit at the table with our friends after a convivial evening and I look at the enraptured faces of my guests who scrape every last drop of sauce from the plate, I am completely happy.