Hiring a private chef to come to your home is decadent, fun, exclusive, and a true gastronomic adventure. The beauty of a private chef is that you can design your own menu to suit your guests. We all know that hosting a dinner party is jolly hard work and results in weeks of planning and seemingly endless preparation of ingredients for your various dishes. A private chef and their staff will take care of everything for you allowing you to focus on entertaining your guests. You’ll also have peace of mind that the food is locally sourced from the local markets, farmers, or fishermen. Little Steps Asia has sourced some of Hong Kong’s finest chefs that cater to different tastes from Italy, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or Southern Asia. Many of the chefs can help you set the scene and create beautiful table settings. Happy eating!
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British chef Tom Burney has well over two decades of experience cooking colorful Western cuisine on various continents. He had a short stint in France before returning to the UK to work with Heston Blumenthal in his 3 Michelin starred restaurants, The Fat Duck and 2 The Square. Tom has resided in Hong Kong and is renowned as the true hospitality gent. His love of organic and sustainable produce has come from his green-fingered mother, and he will use locally sourced, ethically farmed produce in his dishes. Tom has relatively small but delicious menu offerings for private dinner parties and barbeques. He supports a sustainable future and is a master of vegetarian and vegan cuisine. He’s cooked for our favorites Kylie Minogue, Keanu Reaves, and Chris Hemsworth.
The Invisible Kitchen, +852 6906 6275, tom@hongkongpersonalchef.com, https://hongkongpersonalchef.com/
Pomegranate founder and chef Maria Bizri cooks up food packed with Mediterranean flavors fused with tastes from the Middle East and South Asia as one of the finest chefs in Hong Kong; Maria and her team can cater for any event at your home. For Maria, food is an expression of love and home, a warm and happy place. She has an extensive range of menus for a private dinner, cocktail party, or barbeque. Pomegranate chefs source the finest local ingredients for each of the dishes. Her expert team can also help dress and style your event so that you don't have to worry about a thing on the day. A full-service team is available to ensure tiptop service and not one lipstick-smudged glass left at the end of the night.
Pomegranate, +85252337131, info@pomegranate.com.hk, https://www.pomegranate.com.hk/
Multi-award-winning chef to the stars and Asia's 50 best 2021, Margaret Xu Yuan offers farm-to-table and fishing village Chinese cuisine to your private dinner party. Xu Yuan's expansive menus range from eight to 10 courses and include one of her signature dishes, the yellow earth chicken, perfectly roasted in the chef's own design of a terracotta urn or the red hot baby pig. The house dishes are a delicious blend of traditional village cuisine and contemporary notes. Dinner parties with Yin Yang Coastal celebrate sustainable, organic, and seasonal ingredients that are hand-selected on the day.
Yin Yang Coastal, +852 2866 0868 / booking@yinyang.hk, http://www.yinyang.hk/www.yinyang.hk
The finest 'mama's' Spanish cuisine is served straight to your table. If you are a lover of family-style, refined yet simple food, then Comilonas is the perfect choice for a home dinner party. Husband and wife duo have perfected their hearty and crispy Spanish paella, garlicky shrimps, stuffed piquillo peppers for the main courses, and caramelized orange filled with vanilla ice cream for dessert. Chef Carrie Fung is from Hong Kong, but she’s borrowed her Catalan mother-in-law’s recipes and her frequent trips to Barcelona. Together Carrie and Lluís create some of the most authentic Spanish food in Asia. They book up quickly, so make sure you book your preferred dates well in advance.
Comilonas, +852 9863-2270 Carrie, +852 6277-5648 Lluís, info@comilonas.biz, https://comilonas.biz/
The MobiChef experience is Hong Kong’s alternative to eating out; it's a one-stop platform that hosts all sorts of talented chefs in one room. The website is an easy step-by-step guide for delicious at-home dinner parties. Once registered, you choose your menu, set a date, and send a booking request; your chef confirms within 24-hours. They will come to your home in advance, prepare the dishes to perfection, and magically returns your kitchen to normal and leaves. The MobiChef community allows you to meet some up-and-coming chefs you wouldn't usually have access to. They connect you with a world of fine cuisine at home. Each chef has a comprehensive profile page about their experience, cooking styles, philosophy, specialties, and photographs. There is also a comprehensive review section for individual chefs.
MobiChef, +852 6115 3175, concierge@mobichef.com, https://www.mobichef.com/
Test Kitchen is already renowned for having an outstanding collection of chefs. This year Sai Ying Pun’s launched a new concept for food lovers called 'Chef's Table Home,' which brings local chefs and their tasting menus directly to your home. Five courses of exciting food could include specialty dishes from Ching Tso, who was on the opening team of Arcane. They bring you delights such as a warm salad of caramelized cauliflower with chickpea and cashew hummus, homemade Deonjang sourdough bread, and yukhoe beef tartare or suckling pig with kimchi, shiso, and garlic puree. As with their award-winning private dining room, Test Kitchen has a new brigade of chefs that cook for a limited time. The menus are always vibrant and changing, allowing the teams to showcase their impressive talent through food. No two menus are ever the same.
Test Kitchen, +852 9032 7628, info@testkitchen.com.hk, https://www.testkitchen.com.hk/
Chef Ermanno Lelli, the founder of Segreto, caters for small, intimate private parties. He’s from a traditional Napolitano family in Southern Italy and uses age-perfected recipes from his grandmother. The dishes are slow-cooked, traditional, and bursting with flavor. Have you tried their Neapolitan sausages? You must! Ermanno holds the secret to their delicious 30-hour cooked tomato sauce. He never cooks for more than 14 people; it's languid, delicious, and traditional. His meals are full of flavor and made for life. Ermanno is entertaining and enjoys nothing more than an interactive dinner as you chat while he cooks. His creations are fresh and served hot from the pan.
Segreto, +852 6711058, segretoprivatekitchen@gmail.com, https://www.segretoprivatekitchen.com/
Chef Esther Sham heads up the Michelin star culinary team that creates French, Japanese, Shanghainese, American, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indonesian cuisine with passion and gastronomic flair. She'll bring her culinary journeys to your home. Sham's iconic dish is the Melting Onion Duck, a true staple served from her bubblegum pink Le Creuset cast iron cookware. She's got an extraordinary collection of wines that pair beautifully with the dishes; she can supply these too.
Ta Pantry, +852 2521-8121, booking@tapantry.com, http://ta-pantry.com/
Jia Catering has hand-selected some of the finest chefs from around the world to suit your palette. Choose from Thai, French, Chinese, an exciting blend of French, Italian, and Japanese and Spanish cuisine. Freshness and flavor, the best ingredients, and produce are at the heart of every dish. The exceptional chefs have received over 120-awards collectively, and their portfolio of menus is like no other. Their dishes are local, naturally and mindfully prepared, and sourced sustainably. Bring one of the most highly regarded restaurants such as Behind Bars, 22 Ships, and Bibi and Baba to your own table at home.
Jia Home, +852 2200 7000, info@jiagroup.com, https://www.jiacatering.com/chefs
Executive Chef Michael Erlik heads up M Cuisine. His impressive background has seen him cooking up Michelin Star delights in La Belle Otero in Cannes, award-winning Cleo in Boston, or Carmet Forest Spa Resort north of Tel Aviv. He's the chef of choice for embassies, diplomats, and many names on the Forbes list of billionaires. Michael brings two decades of experience and his favorite seasonal Mediterranean dishes to M Cuisine and Hong Kong. He uses freshly sourced organic ingredients and creates fine dining soul food for your gorgeous-at-home dinner party.
M Cuisine, +852 81767170, info@m-cuisine.com, https://www.m-cuisine.com/
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