Private Dinner Chef at Your Home

Hosting a dinner party is genuinely enjoyable right up until the moment you realise you are also the cook, the sommelier, and the person scrubbing the pan at midnight.

This service puts a trained chef in your kitchen for the evening. They bring the mise en place, handle every stage of cooking, plate the courses, and leave your kitchen cleaner than they found it. You stay at the table with your guests.

Menus are built around your preferences, dietary requirements, and the number of guests. A typical evening runs three to five courses, and the chef arrives roughly two hours before the first course to set up. Seafood, vegetarian, or meat-forward menus all work equally well.

The service suits dinner parties of four to twelve people. Larger groups are possible with advance notice and a second pair of hands.

What makes this different from catering

Catering delivers food. This service delivers a cooking experience inside your home, with a chef who adapts in real time if someone has a last-minute allergy or a guest arrives late. It is closer to having a restaurant kitchen transplanted into your dining room than it is to ordering platters.

Brigid Calloway, a regular client: the chef caught that one of my guests could not eat shellfish and quietly swapped her entree without any fuss at all.

Practical details

Duration

Approximately four hours including setup and cleanup

Minimum guests

Four people

Advance booking

At least five days recommended