Who is chef
Adi Protap
Valeriu Badea
known as
Adi Protap
by most of Romanians in UK is the owner of
UK Protap LTD.
Is a famous chef in Romanian community in UK [but not only]. He is a specialist in Romanian and international cuisine.
Adi Protap attended a cooking school in Romania. Also he has diploma as bartender and waitress. In 2010, where he first worked as a kitchen assistant and later as chef at several Italian, Egyptian, Oriental and Romanian restaurants, he moved to the United Kingom and soon opened his own company: UK PROTAP LTD
In 2022 he developed the Mix Grill Concept:
what you see is what you eat!!!
As customers you are the Bo$$: you choose the ingredients of the grill and is made “under your eyes”.


















- Horeca Culinary School – Bucharest, Romania;
- UKCBC College Gants Hill;
- Turism Management at University of Northampton;
- 2025, Morocco, Souses Gastro Festival: 2 gold medals and one trophy;
- 2024 Turkey: 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals and a special trophy
- 2023 Pakistan: 2 Gold medal and 2 silver medals
- 2021 – Athens, Greece, 1 Golden medal, special mention
BBQ on site.
Adi Protap and his team from UK Protap LTD the first BBQ and Grill company to come up with the idea of preparing steaks on grill at the customer’s location.
Whether it’s a wedding, a private company party or a birthday, UK Protap LTD is ready to travel on your location UK or EU] to offer you an unique Romanian taste of BBQ and Grill.
ADI PROTAP IS A winner in numerous international cuisine competitions [Morocco, Pakistan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, etc] where he represented Romania or the United Kingdom, winning numerous gold and silver medals.
UK Protap ltd started as a bbq company initially offering services only to Romanians established in the UK but over time the company developed and started offering services to British companies as well.
Since 2017 UK Protap LTD has started to expand its activities to other European countries. In 2019 a butcher shop and a small fast-food restaurant were opened.