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Notes from the kitchen

What we cook, how we plan a service, and the things worth knowing before you book a chef.

A plated course photographed at a Basil Algarve private dinner

9 February 2023 · Raphael Hoetzel

Private Chef: The Ultimate Dining Experience

What hiring a private chef actually involves — how the menu is built, which occasions suit it, and what shapes the cost.

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From the kitchen

Between services.

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A chef in an olive apron finishing sea bass tacos on a wooden board

Sea bass, charred lime, straight off the board

Pork chops searing on the bars of a charcoal grill

Pork over coals, one turn

A plated course finished with micro herbs in a pale ceramic bowl at a private dinner in the Algarve

Second course, plated in the villa kitchen

A chef's hand lifting two dry-aged tomahawk steaks from a steel tray in a villa kitchen

Dry-aged beef out of the tray