A dedicated private chef placed inside your household — writing the menus, sourcing the produce, cooking your meals and quietly looking after the rhythm of your kitchen on a weekly, daily or live-in basis.
A vetted Michelin-trained chef matched to your tastes.
Part-time, full-time or live-in placements.
Written around your household, not a set list.
Nutrition, performance and family-focused menus.
A personal chef contract is an ongoing arrangement where a dedicated, vetted chef is placed inside your household — writing weekly menus, sourcing produce daily, cooking your meals and quietly running your kitchen. Contracts run part-time, full-time or live-in and are tailored to how your household actually eats.
Ongoing personal chef contracts in the UK typically start from around £55,000 per year for a part-time weekly placement and rise to £90,000–£140,000+ for full-time or live-in chefs with Michelin-level training. Every contract is quoted bespoke against the schedule, dietary brief, travel expectations and household size.
A private chef hire is a one-off booking for a specific event, while a personal chef contract is an ongoing placement inside your household. Personal chefs learn your family's tastes over time, manage the fridge and shopping, and adapt the menu to training plans, travel and school-run rhythms.
Yes. Every chef we place is Michelin-trained, DBS-checked, fully insured and signs an NDA before starting. We arrange a paid trial week so you taste the partnership before committing, and we support the placement with ongoing care from our team.
A personal chef contract is the quiet luxury of having every meal in your home written, sourced and cooked by a chef who knows your household intimately — your tastes, your training, your family's rhythm and the way you like to entertain on a Tuesday night versus a Saturday lunch.
Our placement process begins with a confidential consultation: we listen to how your household runs, what you actually eat through the week, who is around the table on weeknights, and the kind of cooking you want to come home to. From there we shortlist Michelin-trained, fully vetted chefs whose style fits — quiet refinement, modern British, Mediterranean-led, plant-forward, performance nutrition, family-friendly classics — and we arrange a paid trial week so you can taste the partnership before you commit. Every chef we place is fully insured, DBS-checked and signs an NDA before they cross the threshold. They are trained to work invisibly inside the home: tidy, discreet, respectful of your routines and confident running a kitchen on their own without ever needing to ask twice.
There is no fixed menu. Every week your chef writes a menu around what is in season, what your family is doing, who is travelling and which evenings call for something more considered. Weekday lunches and dinners might lean light and restorative — grilled fish, roasted vegetables, slow-braised pulses, considered grains. Weekends shift gear into roast lunches, tasting menus for friends, dinner for the children's grandparents, an effortless Sunday brunch. We build menus around training plans, recovery, school runs, business travel, intermittent fasting, pregnancy, post-natal nutrition and any other rhythm your household lives by. The shopping is done daily through trusted suppliers, the kitchen is left spotless, and the fridge is always stocked with the right things in the right places.
Most of the households we look after value privacy as much as they value the cooking. Our chefs work under strict NDAs, are briefed on house protocols and dress codes, and are comfortable around principals, families, security teams, estate managers, nannies and visiting guests. We coordinate quietly with your household manager or PA, send menus and shopping in advance for approval, and adapt instantly when plans change at short notice. For families splitting time between London, Manchester, Cheshire and overseas residences, we are set up to travel — your chef can move with you to the country house for the summer, follow you to Mayfair through the season, or hand over seamlessly to a sister chef on the other side of the move.
Long-standing personal chef placements across Mayfair, Belgravia, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, Holland Park, Hampstead and the high-floor apartments of Canary Wharf — sourced daily through Borough Market, Allens of Mayfair and London's leading specialist suppliers.
Discreet in-house chefs for households across Hale, Bowdon, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Didsbury, Deansgate Square and Salford Quays — supported by trusted regional butchers, Cheshire Plain growers and day-boat fish landed into the North-West.
Personal chef contracts across the Cheshire Golden Triangle, Prestbury, Knutsford, Tarporley and the country estates around Tatton Park — sourced through Cheshire farm shops, county dairies and specialist game suppliers we have worked with for years.
“Our chef has become part of the family. The menus are thoughtful, the kitchen is always immaculate, and the cooking has genuinely changed how we eat.”
“Quiet, professional, exceptional. Exactly the calibre of personal chef we hoped for and could not find anywhere else.”
“From training nutrition through to dinner parties for twenty, the standard never drops. The placement was right from week one.”
Every personal chef we place is comfortable writing menus across the full range of dietary briefs — from refined plant-led cooking and certified halal sourcing through to coeliac-safe protocols, low-FODMAP plans, ayurvedic-inspired menus and considered children's menus designed alongside the adult table. Briefs are documented, sourcing is traceable and the kitchen runs to your household's specific preferences.
Share your household, location and the kind of cooking you want. We'll come back within the hour with a shortlist of chefs and a clear next step.
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