Michelin-trained private chefs cooking inside your home for the evenings that matter — birthdays, anniversaries, proposals, intimate dinners and the celebrations you want to feel like nowhere else on earth.
Milestone birthdays, anniversaries and proposals.
Tasting menus for two through to twelve guests.
Sunday lunches, weekends and family gatherings.
Written from scratch around the room and the night.
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Private chef hire is a one-off booking where a professional chef travels to your home or venue, brings the full kitchen team, sources produce that morning and cooks a bespoke multi-course menu — plated to order at the pass. It gives you restaurant-quality dining at your own table without leaving the house.
Across the UK, a private chef hire booking is typically priced per head from around £95 for a three-course dinner up to £250+ per head for a Michelin-level tasting menu with sommelier and front-of-house support. The final quote covers menu design, sourcing, chef and team time, service on the night and a clean handover — always confirmed in writing before you commit.
Most bookings sit between 2 and 16 guests, which is the natural size for a plated tasting menu at home. We regularly scale up to 30, 50 and 100+ guests for garden lunches, engagement parties and home weddings with a full brigade, front-of-house team and dedicated pastry chef.
Your chef arrives with the produce sourced that day, sauces and preparations completed in a professional kitchen, and any specialist equipment the menu needs. All they need from you is a functioning kitchen, a hob or oven, water and space to plate — everything else is handled and the kitchen is left spotless.
Private chef hire is the simplest way to bring a restaurant-quality evening into your home — your chef arrives ahead of service, sets up quietly in your kitchen, plates each course at the pass and leaves the room exactly as they found it. You simply host.
Every booking begins with a brief: the date, the address, the guest count, the occasion, the people sitting around the table and any allergies, intolerances or preferences we should know about. From there your chef writes a bespoke menu — a five or seven-course tasting, a relaxed three-course dinner, a long Sunday lunch, a canapé reception that flows into a plated dinner — built around peak-season produce sourced that morning. We take care of everything that surrounds the cooking: the front-of-house team for larger evenings, the sommelier or wine pairing, the table styling brief, the timing of the courses against speeches or surprises, and the quiet handover at the end of the night so your evening keeps its momentum.
Our chefs are trained inside Michelin-starred restaurants across the UK and Europe. They bring the same discipline into your home — careful mise-en-place, considered timing across the courses, restrained, beautiful plating, and the kind of confident technique that turns a dinner at home into the best meal your guests have eaten in years. For larger evenings we add front-of-house, sommelier service, a pastry chef where the menu calls for it, and a small commis to support the pass. Every team is handpicked for the room and briefed in advance, so service feels effortless from the first canapé to the final course.
Most of our private chef hire bookings are for between two and sixteen guests — proposals, anniversaries, milestone birthdays, dinner parties and quiet weekends in. We also regularly cook for thirty, fifty and a hundred-plus guests for engagement parties, garden lunches, milestone family celebrations and home weddings, with full plated service or canapé receptions scaled to the room. Wherever you are hosting — a Mayfair penthouse, a Knightsbridge mansion flat, a Cheshire country estate, a Manchester apartment, a private villa or a yacht — we travel to you with a fully briefed kitchen team and the equipment we need to deliver the menu cleanly.
One-off private chef hire across Mayfair, Belgravia, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, Holland Park, St John's Wood, Hampstead and the high-floor apartments of Canary Wharf — produce sourced through Borough Market and London's leading specialist suppliers on the morning of service.
Restaurant-grade dinners hosted across Deansgate Square, Castlefield, NOMA, Salford Quays and the new wave of design-led Manchester homes — supported by trusted North-West butchers, Cheshire Plain growers and day-boat fish landed into Fleetwood.
Private chef hire across the Cheshire Golden Triangle, Hale, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Prestbury, Knutsford, Tarporley and the listed country estates around Tatton Park — with menus built around county dairies, regional game and Cheshire growers.
“The most extraordinary dinner we have ever hosted at home. Our guests are still talking about every single course.”
“From the brief through to the last plate, completely seamless. The chef and team felt like they had cooked in our home for years.”
“We booked a six-course tasting for a milestone birthday. Genuinely better than any Michelin restaurant we have eaten in this year.”
Every private chef hire menu is bespoke and naturally accommodates the dietary brief in the room — whether that is a fully plant-led tasting menu, a halal-sourced family celebration, a coeliac-safe dinner with documented separation, or a multi-dietary table where each guest receives the same considered experience. Sourcing is traceable, briefs are confirmed before service and the kitchen is run to your guests' specific needs.
Tell us your date, address and guest count. We'll come back within the hour with a tailored menu proposal and the right chef for the night.
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