PRIVATE CHEF, CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHERN MASSACHUSETTS

Linen and Flame.

The chef cooks for you, in your space, for your people, around your night.

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Hand-made. Hand-served. In the room.

Private chef dinners and small private events across Connecticut and Southern Massachusetts. Custom menus, no buffet line, no lunch trays. The chef arrives with the knives, cooks each course in your kitchen, plates at your table, and lets the evening run on conversation.

Three chef knife handles in low light, black and white macro.

Restraint and surrender.

Every course holds two things at once. Butter and salt. Fire and ice. Crystal and ember. Restraint in the plating, surrender on the palate. That pair is the work.

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Three tables. One standard.

Beef filet with microgreens on a black plate, top-down.

PRIVATE CHEF AT HOME, 4 TO 12

Crystal and Ember.

A multi-course dinner cooked in your home. The chef arrives, plates each course at your table, and leaves the kitchen as he found it.

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A multi-course spread arranged on a long table under bronze light.

PRIVATE EVENT, 12 TO 30

Restraint and Indulgence.

A seated private event in your home or at a venue you choose. Plating stays restaurant-level even when the table holds twenty-eight.

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A monogrammed place setting at an intimate event.

BESPOKE OCCASION

Discipline and Abundance.

A bespoke evening built course by course. Anniversary dinners, milestone birthdays, intimate weddings, corporate hospitality at the boutique end.

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A course in three steps.

Charred radicchio. Brown butter. Pecorino, aged forty months. Fold into a hand-rolled dumpling, the dough finished with bone marrow. Sear in a black pan for ninety seconds a side. Plate one dumpling per guest, with sea salt and a drop of preserved lemon.

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Tweezers placing a green dumpling on a white plate, top-down.

Common questions.

Connecticut and Southern Massachusetts. Most dinners are within an hour of Suffield. Other locations on request.
Chef fee plus per-guest food cost plus service charge, or an all-in package per event. Pricing is by inquiry. No per-tray, no per-platter.
Included: menu development, sourcing, all cookware and knives, on-site cooking and plating, service in the room, full kitchen breakdown at the end of the night. Not included: rentals, linens, and venue logistics unless agreed in advance.
Four to eight weeks for most dinners. Eight to twelve weeks for bespoke occasions and intimate weddings. Shorter timelines on request and subject to availability.

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