Private dinner at home
Date nights, anniversaries and birthdays: a multi-course Italian or European menu cooked in your kitchen and served at your table, by the fire in winter or on the deck in summer.
Private chef · Personal chef · Chef at home
What you can book with a private chef in Melbourne
Private chef, personal chef or chef at home in Melbourne: three names for the same service. An Italian or European chef comes to your house, apartment or holiday rental, cooks a menu designed around your guests and leaves the kitchen as they found it.
Long lunches and parties
Sunday lunches, dinner parties and celebrations with friends and family, with a menu scaled to your group.
Personal chef for several days
Holidays and longer stays, in the city or on the Mornington Peninsula: the same chef cooks breakfast, lunch or dinner for as many days as you need.
Christmas and New Year's Eve
Christmas lunch, a Boxing Day table for the extended family and New Year's Eve dinner, cooked and served at home.
Cuisines
Italian, Mediterranean and European cuisine: handmade pasta, risotto, slow-cooked meats, fish from the bay and classic desserts, plus vegetarian and vegan menus.
Popular areas in Melbourne
Toorak, South Yarra, St Kilda, Brighton, Richmond and Fitzroy, plus weekends on the Mornington Peninsula and in the Yarra Valley. A small travel surcharge may apply outside the city. Tell us your address when you request your menu and we will confirm availability.
What is included
Menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking, table service and full clean-up. Bring the wine; you pay only once you have chosen your menu.
What to expect from a private chef dinner in Melbourne
Your Italian or European private chef experience in Melbourne starts in the afternoon, when your chef arrives with the ingredients bought for your menu and settles into your kitchen. Pasta is rolled by hand, the ragù has been simmering since lunchtime, the meat rests while the first courses go out and dessert is plated while you are still at the table. Melbourne's weather decides the menu as much as you do: light and grilled in January, braised and slow in July. Cooking, plating, serving and the clean-up at the end are all your chef's, which leaves you the table and the conversation.
A taste of Italy, cooked for your Melbourne table
An example of an Italian menu for a dinner in Melbourne — Antipasto: vitello tonnato with capers and crisp bread. Primo: handmade pappardelle with a slow-cooked Gippsland beef ragù and aged Parmigiano Reggiano. Secondo: roast lamb shoulder with rosemary, white beans and salsa verde. Dolce: affogato with Melbourne espresso, or tiramisù for the table.
Think of this as one example of the Italian dishes your chef might prepare in Melbourne: menus are fully customisable, and every course can move with your guests and the season.
