Fredrik Berselius

Fredrik Berselius is the chef and owner of Aska in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where his tasting menu uses foraged and locally sourced ingredients to cook the Northeastern United States through a Scandinavian lens. Born in Stockholm, he has spent most of his career in New York and opened Aska, Swedish for "ashes," in 2012; within a year it had a Michelin star and a place on Bon Appétit's list of America's 10 best new restaurants, and it closed in 2014. In summer 2016 he reopened it in a restored 1860s warehouse near the Williamsburg Bridge, with an open kitchen, a garden and a cellar lounge, and it soon earned a three-star New York Times review from Pete Wells and a second Michelin star, which it holds in the 2025 New York guide. He has cooked guest dinners across Europe, Japan and Mexico, including a month-long pop-up at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, and published the cookbook Aska with Phaidon in 2018.