Private Chef - French Fine Dining At Home

Delight in a personalized culinary creation with influences from France in this private chef experience.

Take a culinary journey to Paris with a private chef experience. A master chef prepares France’s most celebrated dishes, starting with a rich, warm soup, fresh and crispy salad or a tantalizing seafood appetizer. Delight in a main course, with options such as flavorful French ratatouille with eggplant, succulent peppered duck breast with wine sauce or the timeless coq au vin with salted bacon. End on a sweet note with a decadent dessert like lavender crème brûlée, white chocolate soufflé or another classic French confection. Book your private chef today!

Guests are welcome to provide wine and beer to accompany the menu, and may request pairing recommendations from the chef upon booking.

  • Minimum Guests 2
  • Maximum Guests 15
  • Meal Courses 3
  • Event Duration 2 hours
  • Labels Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving

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The ingredients
The cooking
The service
The washing up
COVID-19 protocols this chef will implement are:
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Reviews guests left for other experiences with Chef Karen

Mi'Shaye Venerable

Mi'Shaye Venerable

21 Oct 2024

Chef Karen had great energy HOWEVER this class was more physical labor than anticipated and not worth $125 per person. The kitchen space we used did not have running water so we had at least 2 of our guests rotating in the staff lounge washing dishes. One guest offered to run to the store to grab oil that was forgetten by the chef but was not reimbursed. Chef distributed food that we made to staff and customers in the space that we were using. Note: we were cooking in an appliance shop so random people were in a out so it didn’t seem like a private experience. + we onlyy spent about 10-15 minutes eating the meal because we needed to get out of the space. it didn’t feel like I learned from her professional culinary skills, she mentioned just at the end that it was her first time making this meal— which was beyond me because…. I can follow a recipe too and attempt to make this. I think it wouldve been helpful if she had an assistant helping clean and putting everything away instead delegating all those tasks to our guests.

Michael

Michael

18 Oct 2024

We took the Artisan Pizza 101 recently. I normally do not write LONG reviews. Pros: We got to get together with our friends and socialize a bit. Cons: -The chef asked to come a ½ hour early, which I assumed was to setup and make sure everything was ready for noon when our guests arrived. But no, I started chopping fruits and vegetables right away. -The chef forgot parsley for the pesto. She was going to go to the store to get it, but she already had marinara cooking on the cooktop. So, we called our friends to pick up 3 heads of parsley on their way to our home. The chef did not reimburse them. -My husband said he heard the chef barking orders at me to chop this and do that. Maybe that is OK in a restaurant kitchen, but not in our home. Please and thank you would be nice. -When my spouse was putting the cans of tomatoes and tomato sauce in the marinara, he noticed the cans were expired from 2020! -The course was advertised as making your own dough, kneading it and resting it which is one of the reasons we took the course. The chef brought PREMADE pizza dough from Winco! -We all chopped the fruits and veggies and did tasks the chef told us to do. She made the marinara, alfredo sauce and showed my spouse how to make the pesto. When I asked about this the chef said the recipes and how to make it, she said the recipes are online. I took the class to learn, not chop vegetables and fruits so she could make it and not teach us how to do it. -The class was supposed to be 3 hours long and the chef was out the door in 2. The class seemed rushed like the chef had somewhere else to be. Maybe the chef needed to get to her 6PM class in the Bay area of San Francisco. If the class were 3 hours and better organized, the chef could have taught us how to make, kneed and rest pizza dough properly and taught us how to MAKE the marinara, alfredo sauce and pest9. The class had absolutely no instruction. -I took the class to learn and learned nothing. I can roll out premade pizza dough, chop toppings and assemble a pizza. I do it at least once a month. We wanted instruction on how to make the components, not chop stuff and give it to her to make and had no idea how the chef made it. -When we have had other chefs come to the house for $100 per person, they come early and set up, cook everything, and educate us, and clean up the kitchen immaculately. The chef essentially told us to eat our pizza and start cleaning up and she was out the door shortly after. The kitchen was a total mess and took quite a while to clean up.

Pamela

Pamela

04 Oct 2024

Chef Karen was great! We had fun cooking and eating out delicious Thai dinner!

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With over 20 years of kitchen experience, Chef Karen has done it all, from earning culinary degrees in pastry and restaurant management to working with Michelin-star chefs. She began cooking Southern soul food at age seven and now owns and operates her own catering company. She's even prepared gourmet dishes for A-listers and celebrity clients! It's all part of Chef Karen's mission of, "Building a greater community one smile at a time."

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