Ella Mittas has built her career in food working under Brigitte Hafner, Annie Smithers and Ismail Tosun in Australia, honing her skills in London at NOPI, in Tel Aviv at Romano and in Istanbul at Lokanta Maya. Her recipes have been featured in The Design Files and Broadsheet, and her food writing published in The Saturday Paper.

​Ella teaches cooking classes, she also curates and caters food events - hosting dinners in collaboration with various venues across Melbourne. Her self titled project Ela, is derived from her name but also comes from a Greek word έλα - which means “come”.