East of England
Chefs for hire in the East of England – personal chef services for private functions or dinner parties in the East of England
Acosta Marcel
Area: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Personal chef available to hire for all occasions. Will give full support with menu planning, shopping and setting within your budget.
Everything is taken care of and that includes cleaning before we go. All you do is sit back and relax.
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Alberto Peluso
Area: Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Catering for events and dinner parties.
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Alec Maxfield
Area: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: Mansfield, East Midlands, West Midlands, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire
We are a growing independent catering company specializing in bespoke catering throughout the East Midlands.
We deliver a service to the highest standard and treat each and every plate with the same dedication and attention to detail. We cater for various outside events from small functions to large weddings of around 150 people.
Services include: Private Dinner Parties, Buffets, Tasting Menus, Corporate Dining, Weddings, Canapé Receptions, Hog Roasts and BBQs.
Leave a requestAlec Tomasso
Area: Stevenage, United Kingdom
Alec has always been interested in cooking since an early age, but has also been intollerant to cheese, and when the time came to choose his higher education (in Italy where he grew up) he chose engineering over the culinary arts purely because of this aversion to cheese. Alec has always been a keen cook however and begun to cook daily since his arrival in London in 1998, He eventually took part in Masterchef UK and though he finished 24th from 18000 or so applicants it gave him the realisation that he should abandon the engineering career to pursue the love of the culinary arts. Since 2012 Alec has had the pleasure to do work experience (ranging from 1 day to 2 weeks) in many kitchens most notably “L’enclume” “Le Gavroche” & “Le Manoir”. In 2013 Alec ran a 20 seat bistro for a period of 4 months (alongside his full time engineering job) where the owners demanded that he take the time to talk to each table after service, the customer feedback bolstered his confidence immensly, giving him the confidence to quit the position of “contract manager/building services expert” and share his time between looking after his young family and catering for private parties and events.
Leave a requestAlex Firman
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
I have over 16 years experience as a chef, from Michelin starred restaurants to running my own businesses (an outside catering company, and a delicatessen) and extensive work as a private chef for regular clients. Currently I am a freelance chef concentrating on private chef and outside catering contracts. References available on request. I am happy to travel long distances for work.
Leave a requestAlice Lister
Area: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Other Areas covered : Glasgow, Argyll, Central Scotland: Stirling, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee,
A newly started mobile catering service, based in Glasgow and able to travel across Scotland.
I have 8 years of experience cooking at home and abroad in restaurants, private homes, outside caterers, ski chalets and boats.
I enjoy preparing simple, fresh meals using high quality locally sourced ingredients, using a range of cuisines from traditional roasts to Ottolenghi inspired buffets.
Flexible to suit your tastes, budget and numbers. Can deliver ready made food or prepare onsite.
Leave a requestAmdadur Rahman
Area: Woodford Green, Essex, United Kingdom
Chef Rahman has a wealth of experience gained working over numerous restaurants throughout the UK. He has over 20 years in gourmet Indian catering. Whilst specialising in Indian cuisine, Chef Rahman is also highly versatile in other cuisines from around the world. Chef Rahman shares his time between managing ‘The Mohabir’, an established restaurant since 1965, whilst developing new recipes and chef consultancy.
Leave a requestAndy Clegg
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
Will undertake any form of private dining also freelance chef work and consultancy
Leave a requestAnthony Hall
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: Suffolk
Why not be a guest at your own dinner party? Using the best locally sourced ingredients, I will come to your home to prepare, cook and serve a delicious meal, tailored to your taste. I can prepare a bespoke menu for you.
Before your occasion I will arrange a personal consultation to discuss everything in detail. My aim is “To Exceed Your Expectations”
You might want me to prepare a fabulous meal ahead of that special occasion in my own kitchen and deliver it to you . If so, “I will not tell”.
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Antonello Nicastro
Area: Beck Row, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Private Chef, Bespoke Catering, Kitchen Consulting and Cookery Classes.
Italian, Mediterranean, British, Vegetarian and Vegan natural fine dining cuisine.
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Arabella Reeve
Area: Ipswich, United Kingdom
I have worked in the private sector and outside catering world for over 12 years. I have a huge knowledge of working with lots of different dietary requirements, different environments and have learnt to adapt very quickly to work in someone kitchen which is so crucial when having to deliver first class food to your guests with a deadline.
I can offer a bespoke food service delivered to your home be it oven ready food or cooking first class food to your guests whatever the occasion.
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Blake Bowden
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: London
Freelance chef
I focus on private dinner parties, weddings, corporate functions, summer BBQ’s, canapé functions and have my own supper club.
http://littleredhenssupperclub.blogspot.co.uk/
My style is one which follows the seasons and has influence in Britain, Italy and Asia I have regular clients in the UK and internationally who enjoy personal and professional service to get the catering right for their occasion.
I am happy to travel throughout the UK and abroad for work.
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Connor Carway-Roe
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
Carway-Roe Events was created by myself after spending many years cooking in some of Norfolk’s and the UK’s best restaurants. I have a wealth of knowledge about food and flavours to make your occasion one to remember. I grew up in Norfolk and have great relationships with Norfolk’s best suppliers of meat, fish, fruit and vegetables.
I focus on dinner parties, weddings, corporate events, canapé parties and much more.
I am willing to travel throughout the UK and abroad for work.
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Chris Bond
Area: Watford, United Kingdom
Chris has been a passionate chef for six years. Within this time, he has worked with Michelin chefs in England and Wales, and saw the true meaning of fresh produce. The style of his food is forever growing. His process consists of precision cooking with a small explosive element of uncontrollable freedom on each plate. He combines a variation of flavours together, and pushes each one to the limit till they become recognisably beautiful. Each dish has matured over time, with the need to consistently push for perfection and greatness presented in each course he serves.
Leave a requestChris Downing
Area: Cambridge, United Kingdom
I am a fully trained chef. I am best at puddings and pastry work that is my real skill. I am free to do private cooking in your home. Dinner for 2 or what ever you would like. Please do give me a ring to discuss what you would like, and I will do my best to help plan and make your event really lovely.
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Christopher McClure
Area: Lincoln, United Kingdom
I am a young and enthusiastic chef with experience in a variety of different establishments from gastropub to Michelin star. I specialise in local and seasonal ingredients and cater for any price range.
Leave a requestClaire Swinburn
Area: Hertford, Hertfordshire, UK
We are an outside catering company dealing with corporate events, weddings, parties, funerals, office lunches and dinner parties. We are always willing to be open to ideas. We can help with providing all equipment and staff. All our staff have worked for us for a long time and are not agency staff. We are based in Hertfordshire but do travel a wide distance
Leave a requestConnor Carway-Roe
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
Carway-Roe Events is based in the heart of Norfolk; where our hand-picked, skilled staff pride themselves on providing the best locally sourced, seasonal and flavourful dishes. Not forgetting, our faultless service to make your event unforgettable. Whether its a small canape party or a wedding for 200; no event is too big or small. Carway-Roe Events was created by myself after spending many years cooking in some of Norfolk’s and the UK’s best restaurants. I have a wealth of knowledge about food and flavours to make your occasion one to remember. I grew up in Norfolk and have great relationships with Norfolk’s best suppliers of meat, fish, fruit and vegetables; this means I can get the very best local and most flavoursome produce to create a bespoke menu to suit any occasion
Leave a requestChristopher McClure
Area: Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: Nottinghamshire
Craypool catering is run by Christopher McClure who has been a chef for just over 12 years working in AA rosette and Michelin starred restaurants as well as country house hotels across the country.
We offer:
– private dining in the comfort of clients homes for between 2-24.
– canapé parties upto 200
– banqueting upto 100
– very cheap rates for our services
We focus on seasonal produce cooked well and making sure our clients go home happy.
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Darren Kennedy
Area: Luton, United Kingdom
Darren has been a chef for over 20 years. He comes from wales originally, but has moved around the country in this time, meeting new people, working in many different places including Rosette hotels, health clubs, gastro pubs, large hotels, and contract catering He has a passion for pastry/ desserts, His cooking is very modern British done to a high standard
Leave a requestDavid Cole
Area: London, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: London, Kent, Surrey and Essex
Very professional, honest and trustworthy, specialising in dinner parties, events, Barbeques, weddings and fine dining. Fully proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint presentations, cookery lessons and consulting.
Experience, Executive chef events company, cooked for Lady Diana Spencer, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Nigel Lawson and plenty of other celebrities. I have 5* Hotel experience and also lived and worked in Sydney for 5 years. I live in Bexley borough, so good travelling from here.
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Eric Allangba
Area: Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Eric started his culinary journey over 20 years ago and graduated from the esteemed Lycee Francois Rabelais, Lyon. He went on to hone his skills under the tutelage of some of the most talented and passionate chefs from across the globe. In bistros in Lyon, his home town, through to Michelin-starred restaurants in London, he fine-tuned his culinary craft and now wants to share his love of food with you.
Leave a requestFranck Pontais
Area: Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
For over twenty years, Franck Pontais has been creating gastronomic experiences for celebrities and small groups of friends and family. Trained in the French tradition of the Traiteur, Franck has dedicated the last ten years of his career to introducing verrines – gourmet food presented in individual glasses – to the UK. In 2005, Franck decided to set up his own catering company specialising in tailor-made menus for private fine dining events.
Leave a requestHonor Townsend
Area: Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
Honor has been passionate about food and cooking for as long as she can remember and has been lucky to be part of a family where food and wine has always been a passion. Nothing makes her happier than being in the kitchen creating wonderful dishes, whether it is for her family, friends or complete strangers. Honor has more than 25 years of cooking experience, 16 of those spent in Italy as Chef at Boutique Hotel ‘Il Bacchino’ near Cortona and then at Palazzo Terranova, her family’s Country House Hotel in Umbria. She is now back in Suffolk, where she grew up, bringing up her two daughters and has recently closed her own award winning restaurant, ‘Buxhall Coach House’ after a wonderful and successful 3 and a half years. She won the Award for Best restaurant in Suffolk in 2012. Honor cooks honest, authentic Italian food where delicious aromas of freshly made Focaccia and gently simmering pasta sauces emanate from the kitchen. Her food is bursting with flavour wherever possible Honor uses local, seasonal and always the freshest, best quality ingredients. Some of her speciality Italian products are sourced directly from artisan Italian producers. Honor uses the best ingredients and treats them beautifully and simply to create something delicious, full of robust honest flavours and you will not be disappointed! Honor has brought her love and experience of Italian food to rural Suffolk and hopes that clients who tried her food feel transported to Italy through flavour!
Leave a requestJames Howe
Area: King's Lynn, United Kingdom
James is a passionate and professional chef who has worked in Michelin kitchens, creating his own unique style of British food with French influence. As a private chef, James gives his diners a unique and bespoke dining experience.
Leave a requestJason Brown
Area: Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Fine dining level chef with 29 yrs experience and an ex-Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge London and Royal Opera House background. I can offer standards and level of service with highest quality of food and presentation – will not disappoint. Can cater for home private dinner parties, also home tuition lessons. All enquirers accepted.
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Kasia S Samuels
Area: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
Kasia loves to cook with fresh organic and locally sourced products. She always prepares and cooks everything for scratch. Food is her passion, her happiness and she loves to offer her happiness to you by providing the best dining experience . She has 9 years of experience in cooking healthy, nutrition meals for her clients and their family.
Leave a requestKyle Thomson
Area: Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
I am a young and enthusiastic chef with experience in a variety of different establishments including several hotels, pubs, department stores and bakeries. I specialise in local and seasonal ingredients and will cater for any type of cuisine and also any price range.
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La Belle Assiette
Area: London, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: UK-wide
We are professional, experienced and creative private chefs delivering outstanding dining events to our clients:
- We take care of it all: buying ingredients, cooking, serving and cleaning up
- We cater for any type and size of event: private dining, anniversaries, BBQs, canape reception, cooking classes, corporate events etc.
- We do any cuisine type
- We take last minute bookings (up to 24 hours prior to your event date)
- We will create the menu that suits your occasion and budget!
Liz Moore
Area: Peterborough, United Kingdom
Liz is a talented chef who has run the Belle Isle Cookery School for 9 years and now runs”Lizmoorecooks”. She presents private cookery courses in your own home, gourmet catering for private dinners and events as well as cookery demonstrations. She has represented Northern Ireland many times in America and has taken part in such TV programmes such as “Great British Menu”, “Iron Chef U.K.” and The Fabulous Food Adventure” etc.
Leave a requestMarcelo Ribas
Area: Lincoln, United Kingdom
I am a food lover, and unlike many other chefs, I am self-taught. I am always experimenting and researching cooking styles and improving recipes to keep up to date with the market but keeping the flavour of the food. Over the last 12 years, I have focused my efforts on my own private corporate catering company, providing delicious lunches, dinners and canapé receptions for companies in London. Now, I have moved to Lincoln and I am looking to expand my portfolio. My strengths lie in classic, contemporary and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Mario Caffe
Area: St Albans, United Kingdom
Mario began his culinary journey at the age of four under his grandmother’s tuition, where he learned to cook traditional southern Italian dishes from scratch. He always knew he would be a chef. His first kitchen job in a restaurant fuelled his love of good food all the more and he quickly fell in love with the thrill of cooking for large groups of people. After moving to London to work as a restaurant chef he moved quickly up the kitchen ladder and found himself executive chef of two popular London restaurant brands for eight years, Caffe’ Caldesi and Ostuni Restaurant. He has now decided to go out on his own and he hopes to bring his passion for food to your next dinner party or event.
Leave a requestMark Anderson
Area: Norfolk, United Kingdom
Mark Anderson:
- Freelance chef
- Freelance waitress
- Private fine dining
- Events and parties
- Wakes, christenings
- Weddings
- Afternoon teas
- Corporate lunches
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Mark David
Area: Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Mark and Annie have owned and run The Cooking Experience Hands On Cookery School in Suffolk for 17 years and are now looking to diversify and offer their services to clients of holiday homes in the UK and abroad.
Mark is the Chef/Cook and Annie the Front of House. They would be happy to do weekends, 1 to 3 week (flexible) contracts anywhere. Full CV available. Mark trained with British Transport Hotels in kitchens and all departments and has worked with Egon Ronay and Robert Carrier.
Leave a requestMark Peters
Area: Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: London, East Anglia and South-East England
Luxury personal chef services, including private dinner parties, weddings, special occasions, corporate launches and events. Personal chef hire to high-net worth families and athletes. All clients are catered for with bespoke menus and service from a Michelin-trained chef with 30 years’ experience.
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Martin Hatton
Area: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
A classically trained chef with 35 years’ experience and looking forward to being your personal chef, delivering you a personal menu, whether it be a breakfast, afternoon tea, canapes or a fillet of Beef Wellington dinner followed by a delicious dessert. All my menus are freshly cooked and tailored to your individual requirements.
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Mat Collins
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
No signature dishes, catering for all needs, Military trained, knowledge of all food trends, CRB checked, joy of food.
Leave a requestMaya Blacklock
Area: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
Maya is a self taught chef with loads of passion about food, especially Indonesian cuisine. Maya has worked in pubs, Thai restaurants, and pop up restaurants and has had rave reviews about her food. Indonesian cuisine is different to other Asian dishes, it comes with much more preparation and spices, which leaves an incredible taste. Maya has been cooking for many years and although her specialty is Indonesian, she is equally as talented in cooking Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian cuisine. Maya has the best reviews on Just Eat in her region and her food keeps getting better and better. If you have not already tried Indonesian cuisine, then you are in for a wonderful surprise!
Leave a requestMuhammed Karim
Area: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Professional Indian chef, specialising also in Pan-Asian and Indo-Fusion cooking.
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Neal Sealey
Area: Bedford, United Kingdom
With over 23 years experience, Chef Neal Sealey offers a wealth of knowledge when it comes to bringing a concept into a kitchen. His career started at Selsdon Park Hotel in Surrey, working for Chef Jean Marie Zimmermann. From there, he has worked at some of the best places in London, like Marco Pierre White at The Criterion, The Stafford Hotel and Simpsons in the Strand. Neal has also travelled further afield, including Channel Island to work at the L’horizon Hotel and on the sea for Cunard Seaborne Legend. Neal has gained a rosette for cooking at the Barns Hotel in Bedford and spent time working on the healthier side of cooking at Champneys Health Spa in Henlow.
Leave a requestNick Louis
Area: King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom
I am a chef of One Rosette standard who is able to bring together knowledge of working at the ‘Highlife Restaurant of the Year’ and the Highly acclaimed Crewe Hall with a blend of experience coming from my time in Austria. I will provide fantastic food to cater for your every need. Please contact me for any information or any special requests.
Leave a requestLucy Burton
Area: Swainsthorpe, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Nomadi is a mobile wood-fired pizza catering company providing incredible pizzas to parties and events. Our mobile pizza ovens have been all around the country, serving up delicious, freshly made pizza to groups of all shapes and sizes.
Leave a requestPeter Stott
Area: Spalding, United Kingdom
Chef with over 20 years’ experience in guide-listed restaurants up to Michelin Levels. I specialise in seasonal, locally sourced foods prepared in a traditional manner. I can come to you or deliver your chosen menu for you to finish off yourself. I can also help you plan every aspect of your event. Call me for an informal chat.
Leave a requestShane Minchin
Area: Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Other areas covered: Essex, Norfolk
Experience chef/caterer, with over 12 years’ experience of fine dining, outside catering and private chef hire.
Skills of menu planning, costing, ration accounts and function planning. Management skills, running small/large teams.
Would suit any occasion.
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Steven Bennett
Area: Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Executive Head Chef at award-winning The Comfy Duck, Steven caters for everything from intimate dinner parties for ten or fewer through to large weddings and corporate banquets for 500+.
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Theo Michaels
Area: Hertford, United Kingdom
Theo’s cooking first came to light during Masterchef 2014 when he reached the heats of the semi-finals and started to gain recognition as championing modern Greek cooking. Besides Masterchef, Theo has appeared on BBC Breakfast News, Sky TV and The Food Networks’ The Big Eat with Lisa Faulkner and Matt Tebbut. He’s occassionally spotted on stage at the odd food festival as well. Theo’s YouTube Channel is featured on Womans Own and Best Magazine website. He is a frequent guest on BBC Radio’s Weekend Kitchen with Nick Coffer and made it in the Best Of 2014 Recipes from the show. Theo runs a monthly popup restaurant seating 40 people, usually serving 8 courses and when guests can’t get a table he hosts private dining parties at peoples homes. Theo Michaels was born in London, has lived in America for five years and eaten his way through a lot of the globe with a backpack. He is now married with two children and no way will his wife backpack again.
Leave a requestTim Bygrave
Area: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hello! My Name is Tim and i have been cooking professional for 15 years in the Cambridge area. I have walked through all types of kitchen life from banquets at the colleges to Michelin star establishments and the one thing that stays with me to this day is quality of ingredients and the passion that uses them are key! I love to cook, and i have the highest of standards when doing so
Leave a requestTina Pemberton
Area: Norwich, United Kingdom
One of only 12 women chefs in The Good Food Guide with a mark 6 plus for “Exemplary cooking skills, innovative ideas, impeccable ingredients, and an element of excitement.” Her restaurant won the Guide’s Best UK Fish Restaurant award in 2010 and has been Michelin recommended since 2005. “Pushing international barriers” is how one critic described her cooking but it is her inspired skills with fish that puts her ahead of the pack.
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