Our 2016 Summer Menu

Summer is finally here and Atlanta Personal Chef Service is every excited about our new menu! We continuing to grow doing weekly chef services, dinner parties, buffet parties, cocktail parties, weddings, and now catering events. Give us a call and let us help you celebrate your special event. We serve the Atlanta area and/including surrounding cities such as Buckhead, Marietta, Alpharetta, Sandy spring, Dunwoody, Roswell, Kennesaw, and others... 

Appetizers 

King Crab stack, tomato, grilled corn, sprouts, herbed Greek yogurt avocado crema 

Fried green tomato, strawberry, balsamic bacon jam, goat cheese 

Asparagus panzanella salad, gribiche style egg dressing  

Goat cheese fritters, peach butter, pickled peach, wasabi sprouts 

Spicy tuna tartar, cucumber, shallot, ginger, cilantro, scallion cream, sriracha* 

Scallop ceviche shooter, lime marinade, avocado, mango, jalapeno, cilantro* 

Cold Soups

Georgia peach & pancetta gazpacho, balsamic reduction 

Lemongrass cocout soup, shrimp, asparagus  

Carrot ginger apple soup, poached apples & candied orange peel 

Corn & lobster  bisque, basil oil 

Salads

Heirloom tomatoes & burrata caprese, basil, balsamic reduction 

Beet carpaccio, radish, arugula, raspberry vinaigrette, candied pecans 

Watermelon salad, mint, almonds, feta, mache, balsamic vinaigrette  

Compressed melon salad, cherry tomato, avocado, blueberry mustard vinaigrette  

Kale caesar “fort”, parmesan crisps, pine nuts, crouton ring 

Fresh Pastas

Pea & mint, pancetta, fresh fusilli, lemon burro fusso 

Lemon linguini, sautéed shrimp, concasse tomato, artichoke, parmesan, chili flakes 

Fresh papardelle, arugula pesto, & pecorino

Lobster ravioli, sherry, herbs

Entrees 

Seared snapper, chipotle mango salsa, jade rice, braised purple flowering kale 

Cedar wrapped pork tenderloin, grilled scallion salsa verde, salt & vinegar purple potatoes, spicy green bean, purple cabbage and carrot slaw 

Flank steak with grilled lime chimichurri, potato crisps, grilled chicory & field greens  

Coffee ancho rubbed salmon, corn salsa, roasted poblano, cheddar polenta cake 

Rib eye, portabella fries, shaved asparagus, quinoa crisp  

Desserts

Pineapple & pistachio tart, puff pastry, vanilla ice cream, cinnamon 

Naked chocolate cake, berries, passion fruit, espresso buttercream, black sesame crumble Peach Bourbon crème brûlée, bruleed peaches & whipped cream 

S’mores chocolate torte, torched Italian meringue, bruleed strawberries, brown butter graham crisps 

Mango passion fruit curd, candied lime zest, coconut haupia, toasted coconut 

Chocolate lava cake, berries, vanilla ice cream  

Give your loved one a Personal Chef for Christmas

…Mmm can you already smell the great gift? Atlanta Personal Chef Service’s gift certificate is a great gift to give to family members, friends, the boss, or that special someone this holiday season.  Give the gift of great cuisine without leaving the house. Atlanta Personal Chef Service provides great food and excellent service.  We have a variety of different options to choose from, including romantic dinners for two, dinner parties, or cooking lessons. We have the best chefs in Atlanta. We love what we do and we are here to serve you with a smile.  This is the unique gift that you’re looking for this holiday season.  Call us today!

Personal Chefs Speak: Tricks to Help you Eat Less

In a country where food is cheap, plentiful, and the choices are many, it’s very hard for Americans to control their eating habits. It’s like running on the treadmill while you watch the seconds passing by. The time seems to pass so slowly and thirty minutes never seems to end. So, what do you do? Put a towel over the timer and listen to music, which makes the brain focus on the music thus helping the time go by much “faster.”

The brain behaves the same with eating less. We just need to trick it or “put a towel over it” to make it seem that we don’t need as much food as the brain thinks we do. Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to give three simple pieces of advice to help you eat less or lose weight without you even noticing you are doing so.

First, decrease the size of your plates. Research shows that people are prone to eat more (28% more) when using a larger plate. Why? Because they simply put more food on their plate and don’t want to throw it out due to the starving children in Africa. Also, if you use smaller cooking dishes, you will also cook less, thus not having to feel bad for the starving children and actually do something about it. You can save money by spending less on food then donate what you saved to charitable organizations that help starving children in Africa.

Second, change the name of a “normal” portion to a “large.” It will help you to take less on your plate and eat less, because your brain will think that eating a large portion is too much. Most people defer to the normal portion while picking a meal or drink because they think that small is too small and big is too big. Our society’s “normal” has been increasing and it differs for each restaurant, so who is to say what is regular and what is large? Drink and eat less by always sticking with small.

Third, rearrange the way you stock fruits and vegetables in your fridge. Research shows that people are more prone to eat their fruits and vegetables when they put them in places that are visible, such as the center shelf. This will help you to acknowledge that the food you bought is still there and you don’t want to throw money away. Filling up on healthy food will help you decrease the amount of unhealthy food you eat.

Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to help you live a healthy life without giving up the taste of great food. We have personal chefs in Buckhead, Marietta, Dunwoody, Vinings, Roswell, Alpharetta and other cities in Georgia. Keep following our blog and continue getting great tips about food and heath. For more information, check out our website at: www.AtlantaPersonalChefService.com.

The Truth About Multivitamins

Recently articles from the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune warned its readers about taking multivitamins pills. Those articles were based on the trend of people who take their vitamins as a substitute to fruits and vegetables. Some people even believe that taking those vitamins might prevent them from getting a heart attack, cancer, and other diseases. “In the Physicians’ Health Study II, we found no evidence overall that taking a multivitamin for more than a decade prevented heart attacks or strokes or any more than taking a placebo, but it didn’t increase risk, either,” says Howard Sesso, a Harvard epidemiologist who conducted the study.

The problems is that the majority of people who take multivitamins believe they don’t need to eat as many vegetables or fruits, since they are consuming their vitamins through supplements. Also, they believe that the supplements will prevent diseases. These people are obviously wrong. Its common sense that eating healthy, balanced meals with fruits and vegetables and exercising is the best way to be healthy, but people are lazy and always trying to find that magic pill so they don’t need to worry about their heath. It does not exist. There’s plenty of research that has already been proved that eating healthy and exercising is the best way to prevent diseases. There are many health components in fruits and vegetables (many that we still don’t know about it) that a multivitamin pill does not have.  The fact is that taking a multivitamin pill can be good, only if taken as supplement to a healthy diet and not as a substitute for one. Unfortunately for many lazy people out there, eating healthy and exercising is still the best way to be healthy and no amount of supplements can substitute that, at least for now.

At Atlanta Personal Chef Service, we know the value of eating healthy, well-rounded meals, and we help families make this a part of their regular routine.  Clients have told us that they feel better and more energized after eating our meals.  Most people are fully capable of eating healthy, but they don’t have the time or energy to devote to shopping, cooking, and cleaning.  We love cooking for families and share a sense of enthusiasm about helping families eat healthy, wholesome, great tasting foods.  For more information about our weekly dinner service, visit our web page here.  We serve families in Buckhead, Vinings, Midtown, Marietta, Dunwoody, Decatur, and more.

Picking Ingredients at Season's Peak

Atlanta Personal Chef Service - Fresh Avocado Salad over Seasonal Greens

Atlanta Personal Chef Service always uses the freshest ingredients available for the highest quality and best tasting dinners. Everyday our chefs go to grocery stores around Atlanta and the surrounding areas, such as Buckhead, Marietta, Dunwoody, Roswell and Alpharetta, to stores including Publix, WholeFoods, Harry's, and the Buford and Dekalb Farmers Markets. We always integrate seasonal ingredients into our menus, so we provide Atlanta Personal Chef Service’s clients dishes that taste great and are as fresh as can be. Summer in the state of Georgia offers seasonal ingredients such as blueberries, corn, cucumbers, field peas, melon, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, Vidalia onions, and summer squashes. Close to Atlanta is Florida, with their seasonal ingredients of avocados, cantaloupe, mangoes, peppers, and watermelon. Apricots, celery, cherries, gooseberries, nectarines, peas, rhubarb, strawberries, and tomatoes come in from Tennessee. Our chefs are always striving to cook the best and freshest food of the season. To see more pictures of our freshly prepared foods, visit our website (www.AtlantaPersonalChefService.com) or Facebook page.