Ivana Bekavac

Chef Ivana Bekavac has cooked in Michelin-starred kitchens and now prepares menus tailored to guests aboard Karisma.

Chef Ivana Bekavac was born in Zagreb in 1992. Cooking took her to New York, where she graduated from the Culinary Institute, and then to the Osteria restaurant in Philadelphia. Back in Croatia she cooked at Uje Oil Bar and Bookeria in Split, Bevanda in Opatija and the Michelin-starred 360 in Dubrovnik, as well as at Hiša Franko in Slovenia. Since 2020 she has been running her own Kut Bistro in Zagreb. She speaks English.