David Enmark is a Swedish chef and restaurateur with many, and fine, merits in his baggage from his long career in the restaurant and catering industry.
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David Enmark age – how old is he?
David Enmark, was born 19 December 1965 in Boliden outside Skellefteå. He is 58 years old.
David Enmark, press image Kokkarnas Kamp 2024. Photo: Jakob Dahlström/TV4 Who is David Enmark’s wife?
David Enmark is married to Katarina Enmark. In TV4, Enmark has told who is the inspiration for what he is working with today.
– My passion for malting began when I met my wife’s uncle who ran a restaurant.
David and Katarina met during high school and have been a couple since 1981. In an interview with Hänt, Enmark talked about their first dinner together.
– When we went out the first time, it was probably some pepper steak with green pepper sauce and fries. It was nice at the time. I would guess that we ate it, he told Hänt before his participation in Kokkarnas Kamp 2020.
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David Enmark’s career – what has he done?
Among other things, David Enmarks has worked as a spray painter at Volvo, a truck driver and drove valuables. But his cooking career started when he finished cooking school in the 80s. Then he started his own catering company which would successfully take him to major food fairs in Cannes and Monaco.
After a couple of intense years with the company, he sold his share and took time off to focus on his family, he has told Sthlmfood.
By chance, he read about a Cuban food concept called “Paladar restaurants”, where homes double as restaurants. That, combined with difficulties in applying for permission to run a pub, led Enmark to his successful concept, which he mainly deals with today.
Is David Enmark in the Chefs’ Battle 2024?
Yes, for the second time Enmark is participating in Kokkarnas Kamp 2024, the all-star season with, among others Desiré Jaks, Erik Videgård and Nils Molinder. The first time he participated was in 2020 and came in 3rd place.
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Chefs’ Battle 2024, press photo TV4. Photo: Jakob Dahlström/TV4 Does David Enmark have children?
Yes, he and his wife Katarina have two children together. Emma29 and Anton27.
What is the name of David Enmark’s restaurant?
Since 2010, David Enmark has run the restaurant “davidathome” together with his wife Katarina at home in their villa on the small island of Tranholmen between Lidingö and Stocksund. A concept that Enmarks was the first with in Sweden.
There, Enmark estimates that the couple served over 25,000 food-loving guests, he has told Sthlmfood.
In 2022, he published the cookbook with the same name as the restaurant: Davidathome: we meet in the kitchen
“In the book, you get an insight into what it’s like to run a restaurant at home, where the changes of the year control both the food and life on an island. You are also offered inspiration, methods and recipes,” the publisher writes.
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Which celebrities have eaten at David Enmark?
The fact that Enmark has served his food to big names from Hollywood is no news, but he is all the more restrained with which superstars he is talking about. In the interview with Happened however, he has shared some of the names, and they aren’t bad ones.
– Pavarotti, Björn and Benny, Julio Iglesias, Barbara Hendricks. And then a lot of Swedish artists.