About
One chef. Every menu.
Chef AZ is a personal chef service in Southern California, not a kitchen with a rota. The same person plans your menu, shops for it, cooks it and answers the phone when you call.
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The story
Cooking for people, not covers
Chef AZ started the way most personal chef businesses do, cooking for people who liked the food enough to ask whether it could happen every week. It turned out the answer was yes, and that the weekly version needed different thinking from a one-off dinner.
The result is three services from one kitchen. Weekly meal prep for people who want to eat well without cooking, private dining for the evenings that matter, and food on the water for charter days along the coast.
What has not changed is who cooks. Every menu is planned, sourced and cooked by one chef. That puts a ceiling on how many clients we take, which is the point.
At a glance
Serving
Southern California
Services
Three
Chefs in the kitchen
One
How we work
Menus built around how you actually eat, not a fixed catalogue
Ingredients sourced the day they are cooked, not held in a freezer
No subcontracting. If Chef AZ is booked, we say so
A seven-day guarantee on anything that is not right
Standards
What we will not compromise on
Four rules that decide what goes in the box and what does not.
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Bought the day it is cooked
Nothing is portioned from a freezer. If a supplier cannot deliver, the dish comes off the menu rather than downgrades.
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One chef, start to finish
The person who wrote your menu is the person cooking it. No handover, no interpretation.
03
Allergens are exclusions, not notes
Anything you tell us to keep out is removed from what we build, not flagged for someone to remember.
04
We say no when we are full
A booked week is a booked week. We would rather turn work away than cook it badly.
The work
A week in the kitchen
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Monday, market and suppliers.
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Prep and portioning by hand.
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Cooked in small batches, not trays.
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Packed cold, delivered the same day.
Where to start
Three ways to eat with us
Why people book us
One chef plans, sources and cooks. Nothing is subcontracted
Menus written around your preferences and dietary needs
Seven-day guarantee on anything that is not right
Southern California, with travel quoted honestly upfront