A private chef plans a custom menu, shops for ingredients, cooks in your kitchen, serves your guests and cleans up afterward, so you can enjoy your own event.
A private chef usually cooks for a single event or dinner. A personal chef often cooks several meals over a stay or week. Chef Tien does both, always cooking on-site in your kitchen.
Chef Tien grew up cooking with his father in California’s Sacramento River Delta, worked his way up in restaurant operations, and was Banquet Chef at the ACE Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs before cooking privately.
Modern California cuisine shaped by Vietnamese heritage and French, Italian and Latin American influences, built around seasonal ingredients.
Yes. Every experience is cooked on-site in your home, vacation rental, private venue or place of business.
Yes. Every menu is designed for your table based on your tastes, guests, season and event style. No two menus are the same.
Yes. Allergies, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and other needs are designed into the menu from the start and stay cohesive and elevated.
Yes. Plant-based dishes are a specialty, and past guests have raved about them.
Plated dinners, family-style meals and multi-course tasting menus, depending on what fits your event.
Three to four weeks is ideal. Weddings, large events, holidays and festival weekends need more lead time.
Pricing depends on guest count, menu design, service style and event details. After you share your vision, you receive a clear proposal.
Call or text 916-479-0287 or send an inquiry with your date, guest count, location and goals. Chef Tien sends a proposal and menu plan; once confirmed, you finalize the details together.
From dinners for two to larger gatherings of 25 or more. Service scales to the size of your event.
Menu planning, ingredient sourcing, cooking in your kitchen, service during the meal and cleanup afterward.
Yes. The kitchen is cleaned before Chef Tien leaves.
Yes. Chef Tien serves the courses he cooks. For larger events, ask about additional service help.
Yes. Personal chef bookings for multiple breakfasts, lunches and dinners are available.
Yes. Cook Together is a hands-on, chef-led experience in your kitchen, followed by the meal you made.
A working stove, oven, refrigeration, prep space and basic cookware. If your space has limits, let us know in advance and we will plan around them.
Yes. Many dinners happen in vacation rentals across Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley.
Every city in the Coachella Valley, plus Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms, with travel available across Southern California. See our Service Areas page.
Yes. Corporate and team meals are cooked on-site at your place of business.
From Thermal, CA to the coast, we cook with passion. A private chef who comes to you for in-home dinners, celebrations, team meals and cooking experiences across the Coachella Valley, the High Desert and Southern California.
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