Aaron "Aristos" Papandroulakis [1] (born 1965 in Bunbury, Western Australia) is an Australian chef best known for hosting the Seven Network cooking show Surprise Chef . He also hosted BYO Chef, also for Seven.
Papandroulakis has authored two cookbooks, "Cooking with Aristos" and "Cooking with the Surprise Chef", and owns a fish and chip restaurant in his hometown called Aristos', which he established in 1992. [2] He established a seafood restaurant and takeaway on Rottnest Island in May 2009, which has since changed ownership. [1] . In 2018 Aristos and his company were found guilty of multiple counts of possessing fish taken for a recreational purpose at his restaurant, and fined $10000. [3]
Papandroulakis also operates a seafood processing business as well as his restaurant business.