Michael Deihl

Background

About Michael Deihl

Chef Michael Deihl founded The Michael Deihl Group, LLC after realizing the tremendous need for high quality culinary professionalism in today’s Food & Beverage arena. Chef Deihl left the prestigious East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta after serving as the Executive Chef for 13 years, to pursue a wider prism of excellence in the food industry. Michael has also consulted with distributors, brokers, manufacturers and QSR restaurants on a hands on basis providing these companies locally and internationally with the insight that only an experienced discriminating end user can provide. Michael has committed himself as a Professional Executive Chef to a life time of flavor profiling, menu and recipe development, staff training and food styling which has raised customer and member satisfaction at each and every one of his stops along his storied career. Michael has been published in The National Culinary Review, Hilton Head Monthly, Current Diversions, Flavors Magazine, Georgia Restaurant Forum and has had numerous features written about him in magazines and newspapers including the Aruban Diario and Tokyo’s Tayioh News. Michael has served as President and Chairman of the Board of the Hilton Head Island Chefs Association and is the current chairman of the board of the ACF Atlanta Association and is the current Southeast Regional Vice President of the American Culinary Federation. Michael has given himself to a lifetime of charitable endeavors helping others in his local community and beyond. In 2009 Chef Deihl was awarded an Honorary Ambassadorship by the Aruban Minister of Tourism for his work promoting the Aruban culinary arts worldwide and working with the culinary students on the island preparing them for a better life as professional chefs. Michael was selected as one of only three chefs in the country in 2012 to visit the White House for his dedicated work with the Chefs Move to School program teaching at risk elementary students about healthy eating choices. Specialties: Working to make Atlanta one of the best culinary cities in the world when it comes to great food, culinary camaraderie and using our talents to take care of the less fortunate in our community.