We make it easy to hire a great Private Chef

How it works

1. Request your meal

Takes less than a minute! Give us a few key details and set a budget so private chefs can send you proposed menus

2. Select your chef

Within 24 hours, 2-5 private chefs submit competing proposals with clear menus and all inclusive prices. You choose the one you like!

3. Enjoy!

Your private chef comes to your home with all the ingredients, cooks you an awesome meal, and cleans up!

Simple 1-2-3 booking

Request your meal

Give us a few details and set a budget so Private Chefs can send you proposed menus

Select your chef

Within 24 hours, 2-5 Private Chefs submit competing proposals with clear menus and all inclusive prices. You hire the one you like!

Enjoy!

Your Private Chef comes to your home with all the ingredients, cooks you an awesome meal, and cleans up!

Services

Dinner Parties

Authentic restaurant quality meal experience prepared in your home by a private chef who is passionate about what they do.

Private Cooking Lessons

Fun and interactive learning experiences designed custom for you. Can be anything from pasta making to how to do a good roast.

Small event catering

Vacation rental catering, Brunches, Special Celebrations, Party Canapes, BBQs. Any where you want a private chef experience.

Services

Dinner Parties

Restaurant quality private chef meal experience in your home

Cooking Lessons

Fun and interactive lessons in your home with a private chef

Small event catering

BBQs, Brunches, Vacation rental catering by a authentic chef

What customers say

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We had such a positive experience with Chef Nicole who recently came to our home for our son’s 10th birthday. He wanted a sushi party/lesson and Chef Nicole went above and beyond. Will absolutely recommend Table at Home to anyone looking to book a private chef for a special at-home experience
Table at home helped me find the perfect chef and menu for my wife’s birthday dinner. It afforded me options with respect to price, cuisine, scheme - such as timing and plating ( our China). Chef lulian arrived on time and took control- meeting all the details of our plan. All guests were impressed and look forward to using this service as well
Chef Julian was top notch. We love French food and have tried every French restaurant in dc and a few in va. Chef Julian s lobster bisque. Dover sole frissee salad roasted potatoes and French cut green beans with fresh dressings and sauces were all absolutely mouth watering. Definitely calling him again!!! Super talented
Would use again fully. Easy and really a great service for a private chef - both patron and chef. Was easy to communicate with the chef post proposal and booking.
I booked a private chef for a birthday dinner for my wife. We had Chef Atiya, who was fantastic. She was flexible with my schedule, and her dishes were amazing! My wife was floored with everything and made the occasion a memory that will last forever. I would highly recommend it!
We used TableAtHome to find a chef to come into our home and prepare a meal for a milestone birthday. My review of the chef can be found at the TableAtHome...
I used Table at Home to book a private chef for a dinner celebrating my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary in San Diego. Not being from San Diego it was really useful to find a resource for local chefs. My experience was fantastic and while we received over 10 proposals very quickly after posting our request, we ultimately chose chef Adam Webb and had an amazing dinner! The booking was easy and communicating directly with the chefs was really useful. I had some tricky palettes to deal with and was able to tweak menus and work with chef Adam’s team directly to finalize the details. My family has been talking about the experience nonstop ever since!
Incredible experience and super easy, flexible and reasonable. We will definitely be using again!
Chef Cashimiere is awesome! He is professional, timely, great personality, efficient, willing to personalize the menu according to your preferences, and the quality of food is incredible. We will definitely use him again!
Our experience with Shawn and Cindy left no doubt in our minds about having made the correct decision for our At Home 80th birthday Celebration for 10 attendees.Shawn was very communicative in planning the event and was exceedingly open to suggestions. He answered our questions promptly and left us feeling confident that our even would really happen.Well, it did. Shawn and Cindy arrived exactly at the appointed hour and began working immediately. Some of the preparation had been done in their kitchen prior to the event and some were cooked freshly in our kitchen. The dishes we selected were all served on time, at the right temperature by a smiling Cindy.The entire evening went like clockwork, the food was delicious, Shawn explained each dish to our guests mentioning where the ingredients were raised or grown and how they were prepared and all had a wonderful experience. We had also asked Shawn to let us know what wines would best pair with our menu which he did. The wines were also well received by our guests.To finish off the night Shawn and Cindy entirely cleaned our kitchen including all service dishes and meal dishes and only left a few drinking glasses that would not fit in the dishwasher.When you get Shawn's proposal, SAY YES!
A seamless and delicious experience!
Seamless experience from beginnjng to end. Easy to navigate website, immediate responses from chefs with hard to choose options. Each menu had fabulous entrees!! Excellent communication with chef before and during event. The evening was a wonderful gastronomic experience. Highly recommend!
Very accomodating, food delicious fresh and within my budget I was able to entertain and have an amazing experience.Thanksnyou Chef Ken.
Chef Airon was fabulous! He was very easy to communicate with prior to our event. Chef Airon created a delicious Italian theme menu for our dear friend’s 50th birthday dinner. Not only was the food delicious, he also cleaned the kitchen after serving the 3 course dinner. Highly recommend Chef Airon.
What a terrific birthday gift for my husband. Chef Jordan was amazing and fit right in. We learned, laughed and stuffed our faces with high quality food. It was such a great experience. We are already planning our next dinner. !
Great experience booking a private baking lesson with a local chef. It was easy to submit a proposal and connect with a local chef. Will definitely use this service again in the future for private or group lessons!
Chef Tiya was absolutely amazing! She provided excellent services for our Christmas Dinner! Everyone enjoyed their meal. She was very professional, sweet and caring. We will recommend her to everyone we know!Thanks so much Chef Tiya!
Table at Home helped me find a great chef, Chef Kee. I was very pleased with that website and service.
We wanted a special dinner for our anniversary. Hired a chef from Table at Home (Iulian) who was prompt, courteous, prepared, and cooked a great meal. He cleaned up as well. It was a fabulous meal. Definitely will use Table at Home again.
Chef Sunny and his wife Jenny were wonderful! Great communication, thoughtful about our food preferences and amazing with two rambunctious kids. Excellent experience overall!
This service is amazing! We had a great evening of delicious food!
Lulian cooked a wonderful dinner for our family last night. Food was delicious, served wonderfully and made for a great evening. Looking forward to doing it again soon!
Chef Tony DiSalvo created a Michelin star experience in our home for my foodie friends. He was on time, prepared, genuine, an excellent communicator pre-event, and an exceptional chef during the party. Everyone at the party raved about his sashimi, baby artichoke salad, Wagyu beef filets, home-made gluten free pasta, celery root purée and gf chocolate torte. His magnetic and fun personality gave all of the guests looking for trade secrets an unforgettable experience. He is a gem and a gift to the culinary profession. He even cleaned up so we could focus on connecting with our guests. He was a true partner in the kitchen in every way and you would be lucky to have him help host a cooking party.
I was looking to book a fine dining level experience to celebrate my wife’s birthday. After an easy google search I found Table at Home, the user interface was so easy to navigate. I entered my dinner requirements and working 24 hours I had my first professional chef prepared menu, after 48 hours I had several more proposals. All proposed menus were clearly listed and very detailed. Each were high quality! Once I made my decisions the chef and i began to communicate via phone and text to plan the details of our dinner. It was perfect! Prices were competitively priced to any 5 star fine dining restaurant in the Washington DC area. I highly recommend chef Natalie!!
Such an awesome experience that Chef Francesco provided! All of the courses were beyond delicious and Chef Francesco was very warm and friendly. Highly recommend him!
I booked Sunny for private birthday dinner for 2 for my boyfriend 32nd birthday. He was super professional. Arrived on time. He cooked exactly what was agreed upon on the menu. The food was delicious. N my boyfriend is a foodie so he really appreciated Sunny's action to detail and the quality of the ingredients served especially the meats . He was super helpful in making my birthday surprise a success. Will book again and recommend him for others. Great job glad I found table at home.
Chef Joey was the best. He prepped and prepared a complete southern dinner. He cleaned up and boxed my left overs. My family loved all the food and desserts
I used Table at Home to provide my sister and her family with a fine dining experience. It is difficult for them to go out since they are caring for one of their disabled daughters. This experience gave them the joy of eating a restaurant type gourmet meal together as a family. Francesco was their chef and his Italian meal was excellent! They truly thought the food was amazing as well as all the conversation with Francesco. He and I spoke a few times to set the menu and details. He was so personable and had great suggestions esp since we required a vegetarian menu. I would definitely recommend Francesco again to more family and friends. I would also recommend Table at Home!
Chef Alex...you were amazing. Clean, prompt, and, most importantly, the food was delicious. Thank you! However, I wouldn't have gotten the privilege of working with Chef Alex without going through the Table at Home portal. Easy to use, with a variety of choices as it pertained to the menu. And the response time coordinated well with my plans. In the end, I did a little work with the portal, Chef Alex catered amazingly, and my wife enjoyed it. That's what matters the most. Gratitude to Table at Home.
Chef Kenneth Luk and his sous chef Emily were beyond amazing! They made my mom’s birthday celebration so special. The food was outstanding, and they were such a pleasure to work with! I could not recommend this chef and Table at home enough!
We had Chef Shawn cook for us and had an incredible experience. Absolutely unforgettable.
Chef Nicole was a pleasure to work with from the moment we connected. She creatively worked around our gluten-free request. Every dish was so tasty and well presented. She eloquently decorated our table with beautiful flowers. I would highly recommend chef Nicole.
We had Chef Shawna create a special birthday dinner for my husband. We have young children so this was a great way to celebrate while they were sleeping. The food was amazing and the kitchen cleaned. I would definitely recommend Chef Shawna!
DOPE! Chef Stacy was amazing! Worth the money. Excellent food, timely, and convenient. Highly recommend this service.
Table at Home and Chef Massimo were fantastic. They make it really essy to host a dinner party in your home. I would highly recommend.
My wife hired Chef Cashimiere to make me a birthday dinner in our home. I'd have to say that the experience was one of the best birthday presents I've ever received. And, the meal ranks as one of the best I've ever eaten, period. As well as being a great chef, Cashimiere was fun to talk with while he was cooking. He started us with a bruschetta appetizer, and then led us through salad and an amazing duck 2 ways main course. Dessert was profiteroles with custard and berries for me, and chocolate moose for my wife. My description though, doesn't even begin to describe the decadence of the meal. Each element of each course could have stood on its own as an entree. At the end of the meal I jokingly asked if he could come back next week - but we would love to have him back again soon!
Nicole C. was absolutely fantastic and everything was delicious. I booked with her for a brunch and she made things like simple breakfast potatoes taste incredible and memorable. She was very accommodating with changing the menu to our taste and very fun. We can’t wait to have her again!
I used table at home to book a private chef for my wife and I on our anniversary, and the website was very easy to use, and the process was flawless! We ended up having a great night, the food was amazing, and the chef was great at communicating with us and assisting us with planning. I thought it would be much more complicated, but it turned out to be very easy. I would definitely recommend to a friend!
Great Experience from start to finish! Highly recommend, the food was fantastic and the chef/sous chef were wonderful!
This was my 2nd time using Table at Home and it did not disappoint. Chef Atiya was truly wonderful throughout the whole process. She Was extremely professional and also very personable. Each course was excellent, my favorite was the curry crab soup! Literally everything was cooked with the perfect flavors and tenderness. Thanks Chef Atiya for making our anniversary dinner a memorable one.
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This was our first time using Table at Home but it won't be the last! It was easy to get bids for our event. The booking platform and communications were clear and eat to use. Our chef was professional and did an amazing job with our chosen menu.
Chef Shawn cooked for a family birthday party and it was delicious! He was fantastic and all of the guests could not stop talking about the food and awesome service. Table at Home was a great service that made finding a private chef a breeze and I would highly recommend using them.
We hired Chef Nicole and she was professional, talented, friendly, amazing. Best dinner. We had a night to remember forever because of her. Highly recommend.
We had the best experience with Chef Sunny who we booked through Table at Home. The booking experience was seamless, and working with Chef Sunny leading up to the night of our dinner was a true pleasure. He was incredibly thoughtful, detailed, communicative, friendly - and the food was exquisite. My husband and I can’t stop talking about it. Highly recommend!
The full turn key experience provided by Chef Ben was outstanding. From working with me on several iterations to the menu, accommodating my ask for printed menus for our guests to promptly responding to all my emails.I was very impressed with the presentation and taste of each dish he served. Our meal included appetizers, salad, 2 main courses and 2 desserts. Each better than the next dish.It was such a treat, to be out of the kitchen and enjoy the company of our guests, with the extra win-win bonus of a clean and tidy kitchen at the end of the evening!Service received was first class – and the thought and attention beforehand was amazing. Thank you again for your hard work, Chef. Your food definitely contributed greatly to the success of our party.
Sunny was great. Food was delicious and courses were timed correctly. Sunny was neat, polite and attentive.
Chef Alessandro is an amazing chef and beyond that, an interesting person that is easy to talk too. He was very communicative before the event letting us know his time of arrival and also showing us a picture preview of the lovely ravioli that he made for us earlier in the day! Upon arrival he took off and changed shoes (which was appreciated due to the wet weather outside) and changed into professional chef attire. He was extremely organized and made a 4 course dinner for two look like a breeze. He was comfortable cooking in front of us and chatted with us when engaged. He was professional and kind throughout the evening- even snapping some pictures for us. The food was wonderful! We will invite Chef Alessandro back again to share this experience with our friends!
Chef Massimo and his wife Tara were a pleasure to get to know and a delight to have in our home to celebrate our daughter’s 30th birthday! The food was excellent and plentiful! Grazie @gustochefmassimo!
Chef Howard Hurst was an incredible cook. He was so easy to communicate with and was very prompt upon arrival. The food was excellent and he was very...
Chef Tiya did an amazing job for us! Delicious food and incredibly well presented. Couldn't believe that one person could do all that. Highly recommend...
Chef Ben Williams was outstanding. The food was delicious and the presentation was perfect. The dinner party of 7 had a memorable meal. I highly recommend...
I never thought that I would hire a private chef for a personal meal, but it was well worth it! Having a meal like this made in the comfort of your own...
We had a special experience with Chef Meg on Nov 14. She was attentive, flexible and communicative before and during our birthday dinner. She was prompt,...
Table at Home was a great experience! The process in selecting a chef was easy and our selection, Chef Tiana, was outstanding! Her food was delicious and...
Very easy set up. Great communication, and all around quality service. Prices are very good. Definitely using the service again.
Great experience from start to finish. Our meal was great and a perfect treat for our anniversary dinner!
ReEverything was so easy. From requesting proposals, to booking, to paying... and Chef Richard Mancini was AMAZING. The food was incredible. Serving was...
I can't say enough about our experience and Chef Massimo. He was professional , yet friendly and accommodating. His stories were impressive and the...
The Chef came prepared to make all dishes and cooked and prepared all of their dishes onsite. The stories being told very good stories. I would highly...
Chef John is simply amazing. Celebrated my Birthday in style. Chef John made it possible by creating a delicious four course meal. He was punctual,...
From the request process through our dinner, we had the best experience! Requesting quotes was an easy online process. I received quotes, from multiple...
We had a party of 8 and Chef Ken was amazing! He cooked, served and cleaned up. The food was tasty and Chef Ken was ready to accommodate the dietary needs...
We hired Chef Jordan and he was so kind and accommodating to our family. His menu was universally appealing and not too fancy but the presentation was...
Chef Bryan excels at professionalism, cooking experience, & providing exquisite plated masterpieces. He seemlessly added to a 50th birthday dinner...
Having lived in Japan this was absolutely on par with the best food you can get anywhere in Japan. Presentation and flavor was top notch, no fault in any of...
This experience was the best. We used this website to obtain a great chef for an at home gourmet food experience for our 10 year wedding anniversary. I have...
Love everything about Brenda. She's was fantastic. Will definitely be working with her again !!!!! Thanks so much Brenda for making my husbands birthday...
We had a wonderful experience with Taka the sushi chef. We highly recommend hiring him. He was great. Amazing food!
I can't say enough about the wonderful meal Chef Marvin cooked for us. Everything was beyond amazing and the party was a huge success. I really appreciated...
Chef Jamie Jeffery was the perfect way to surprise my husband for his birthday! We typically love dining out to make birthdays and anniversaries a special...
Wow! I'm speechless! My wife (LaSha) and I decided to stay local to celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. I thought of the...
We had Chef Nicole come to our house for a 6-person intimate dinner and it was DELICIOUS! I requested a 3 course plated meal, but she went above and beyond...
Chef Brenda created a beautiful meal for our girls evening. The salad was fresh and delicious, the cod was perfectly cooked, and her meyer lemon olive oil...
Great dinner prepared by lulian. Worked out all the details beforehand and perfected as planned
Amazing experience! Fabulous! Process was easy and the Chef (Chef Tiff) was excellent. Honestly an outstanding experience!
Very professional and easy to work with! Fantastic Thanksgiving Dinner! Amira was able to accommodate and provide enough food for 14 people and cleaned up...
-I was looking to host a big birthday party for my SO. I looked to yelp to help me find a catering company. Instead it led me to TAH- an awesome company...
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Why Table at Home

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Easy

Takes just minutes of your time to organize and private chefs bring all ingredients
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Authentic

Meals by vetted private chefs who are passionate about good food
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Why Table at Home

Easy

Takes just minutes of your time to organize and private chefs bring all ingredients

Authentic

Meals by vetted private chefs who are passionate about good food

Special

Feel like a movie star with your own private chef

Give us a try!

It is free to place a request, and there is no commitment if you do not find a chef you like

The best private chefs

We only accept great Private Chefs on our platform. All Chefs have passed through our review, screening and interview process before being invited to join the platform.

In addition to being great cooks, private chefs have also been chosen for their interpersonal skills - a very important ingredient in making your dinner a success!

Meet some of the private chefs below

Where we serve

  • Now also in Austin, Boston, Houston and Nashville

For each city / metro area, our service area extends in a roughly 30 mile radius from the city center.

Please try your zip code on our Request a meal page to see if we have chefs who service your home.

About us

We want to make it easy to hire a great independent private chef for your next dinner party or small event

Our idea started with a belief that great experiences happen over food, and that few things are more authentic than a meal cooked in your own home.

This got us wondering:

How can those of us who are a little short on time experience a meal at home that is a little more authentic than a meal kit or delivery?

And, where can chefs practice their passion if they don’t want to work the traditional 6 days a week in a restaurant or give up their day jobs?

Our solution is Table at Home. We have made it simple to organize a great private chef to cook for you in your home. Posting a request only takes minutes, and we have taken the guesswork out of choosing a private chef with customer reviews and photos of chefs’ creations.

While our specialty is Private Chef Dinner Parties, you can also use Table at Home to hire a Private Chef for Private Cooking lessons, Vacation home catering, Special celebrations and any time that you need an amazing food experience in your home.

We launched at the start of 2018 with a roster of amazing private chefs serving Washington D.C. and the broader DMV area. Since then, we have expanded the service to a roster of Private Chefs in New York (including Private Chefs who service The Hamptons, Jersey City and Greenwich) and a group of top Private Chefs in Chicago. In late 2018 we moved west, starting our service with Private Chefs in Los Angeles (where we have private chefs who service everywhere from Malibu to Hollywood and south to Orange County) and San Diego (where we have Private Chefs for dinner parties and Airbnb vacation home rental catering).

We are independently owned and run by passionate foodies, and pride ourselves on providing a fair platform for both Chefs and their Customers.

Want to join us as a Chef?

We believe we are the best and fairest gig platform for quality independent chefs