We Are More Than Just a Personal Chef and Catering Company

Atlanta Personal Chef Service is more than just another catering or personal chef company in Atlanta. We will never compete on price to give a less quality product to our clients. We spend hours perfecting our skills. Our food is combination of mixing the right ingredients with art. We take each of events like we were planing the events for us.

Our dinner parties is where our skills truly shine. For every dinner party that we do, no matter the size, we will have a meeting to discuss the best approach. We see which would be the best fit for the party and come up with a plan.

For our catering events, the same thoughtful process that goes into the dinner party goes to our catering events. But, catering events tends to be less formal. They tend to be less focus around the food and more focused on the atmosphere.

For weekly clients, we spend everyday going over on how can we improve our services. If the chef we sent you is not a good fit, then we will send another. With the weekly service, we really focus on what the family wants to eat, including the kids.

For our corporate lunches, our service is very professional. Our prices are very reasonable and competitive. We are easy to work with and we still maintain our quality.

  

Good chefs are not cheap- Dinner Party Service Explanation VS Catering Service prices

Here at Atlanta Personal Chef Service we are very proud of cooking fine dinning food. Our services may sound pricey compared to what other chef service provide but, people need to know that there is more to cooking than just cooking. What our chefs provide is great food and a great experience. Just like at a restaurant, we will serve you and make sure that you water is filled. We do have cheaper services, which is when our catering comes in handy, but catering is very different than a fancy sit-down dinner party.

We recently had someone that told us that a chef in Atlanta was charging less than $20 per head for a 13 people sit down dinner party. You may ask ask me, are you kidding? No, I'm not! Chefs are willing to work for very low these days and people are willing to hire them. Chefs with little experience or chefs that have not grown on their profession.

I always tell our clients to the their research. Look for their reviews on google and yelp. Find out if they have their kitchen or not. Testimonials in their website does not count as review because anyone could have written that.

Having a personal chef, personal chefs to do a dinner party or catering event is not cheap. If the chefs are charging a cheap price its because something is wrong. Maybe they are not paying for the right insurance or cooking out of their home kitchen (which is illegal).

Catering is very different than dinner parties.  Catering for a large groups (20 or more) can be done for $20 to $50 per person, but dinner parties? no.

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Some of our Dinner Party and Catering Pictures

These past few weeks we been busier than ever with our weekly in home chef services, dinner parties, and catering events. God has blessed us tremendously. Our team has done a fantastic job and here a few pictures that display some of their work. Most of events are done in the Atlanta area and its around cities. These cities include: Marietta, Sandy Springs, Alphraretta, Dunwoody, Kenensaw, and others. Also, we are now doing a lot more catering events and we just started doing corporate lunches as well. We are proud of the services we provide and proud of our team. Please contact us if you are looking for a chef or a catering company. We are proud to be the best chef rated company company in Atlanta!

What's the best choice for chicken stock?

As personal chefs, we are always striving to create intense delicious flavors in a timely manner. Stocks and especially chicken stock due to its more neutral flavor are a great go to liquid that can be used in the place of water to develop rich, deep delicious flavors. Use chicken stock instead of water when making rice, quinoa, and sautéing or steaming veggies. Keep in mind there is lots of flavor in stock, and also a lot of sodium. So, if you have a client sensitive to sodium, use low sodium or in extreme cases, just stick to water or a mixture of stock and water.

So which stock is a good pick? My all time favorite chicken stock to use is the Imagine brand, free range organic chicken stock. Its is always the low price of $2.69 at your local Kroger grocery store, and often 2 for $5 at Publix. Full, rich flavor with no added fake colors or flavors, its organic and also available in low sodium.

My least favorite stocks to use and the ones I often avoid are the store brands, and mega soup company brands like Progresso. They are often filled with msg and fake caramel colors, and basically taste like salty water.

I hope this can help out someone searching for the perfect stock.

Cook on!
Personal Chef Nia


Nia has been a personal chef with Atlanta Personal Chef Service since January of 2016 and currently cooks dinner for four families on a regular basis. She also assists the chef team with dinner parties and special events. To find out more about Chef Nia, visit our About Us page here, and to find more about our services, click here.

Dinner Party Season Is Here!

Holiday season is upon us and Atlanta Personal Chef Service is ready for it. Being one of busiest season for dinner parties, Atlanta Personal Chef Service has come up with a great fall menu.  The Holidays is a great season to show loved ones gratitude and spend time with them. Why go to a restaurant, when you can have a better dinner party experience from the privacy of your home. Enjoy fine-dining, relax and let us entertain your friends and family from the comfort of your own dining table. We will cook, serve, clean and much more. Our chefs have all graduated from great culinary school and all of them have fine dining experience. So, if you live in Buckhead, Dunwoody, Atlanta, Decatur, Marietta, Sandy Springs, Vinings, and other cities surrounding the Atlanta area, then contact us. 

Fall Dinner Party Menu Options

Soup or Starter (choose one)

Roasted Root Vegetable soup garnished with Nutmeg Creme Fraiche and Rosemary Brioche croutons

Wild Mushroom Soup drizzled with Truffle Oil served with Parmesan Spinach Flan

Shrimp Bisque garnished with sautéed Shrimp and Cilantro Oil

Caramelized Onion and Cana de Cabra Cheese Tartlet with lemon infused Arugula and Balsamic glaze

Steamed Mussels with White Wine garnished with fresh Herbs and Tomato served with French baguette

Seared Scallop with Carrot Ginger puree and Tarragon sauce garnished with fried Leeks

Salad (choose one)

Candy Beet salad with pickled Onions garnished with Honey Pecan Goat cheese tossed in White Balsamic

Red Wined Poached Pear tossed with Mixed Greens garnished with Stilton Blue cheese and a Raisin crouton

Spinach Warm Brie salad with Apples and Walnuts tossed in Champagne Vinaigrette garnished with a Buttered Crostini

Entrée (choose one)

Roasted Cornish Hen with Cherry Demi sauce over Roasted Root Vegetable and Farro medley with braised Brussels Sprouts

Herb Crusted Lamb Chops with Cabernet Sauce over herbed Parmesan roasted Potatoes and Tomato Provencale

Seared Beef Tenderloin with Mushroom Demi sauce over smoked Corn Polenta and roasted Asparagus

Dessert (choose one)

 Chocolate Lava Cake with Assorted Berries and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pot de Creme with Vanilla Biscotti and Chantilly Cream

Mini Apple Pie served with Caramel sauce and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Strawberry Shortcake served with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and Creme Anglaise

The Good Fat and Bad Fat Dilemma: the problem may just be too much food

 In a most recent food research study done by Martijn Katan ( Professor of Nutrition at the University of Amsterdam), suggests that saturated fat (fat found in meat, butter, and dairy) may not be as bad for your heath as you think. Of course, don’t go celebrating by eating a whole stick of butter. The whole purpose of the study was to challenge the idea that doctors have told us our whole lives to replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats, but after all the problem may not be the fat but how much we eat of it.  The problem with past studies is that they were unable to find the link between the bad fat (saturated fat) and the increase of cholesterol. Now, that both fats cause cholesterol to increase is beyond doubt. The study found that in the end the problem is not that fat itself, but how much we eat of it. Food is cheap and access to it is easy. Most of our important occasions or celebrations involve food. For many, food may even be used as a pastime. We are surrounded by food and tempted by it. That’s what is making us fat and our cholesterol high. So make the right choice and control your eating.

Here at Atlanta Personal Chef Service, we cook healthy and tasty meals. Quit going to restaurants every night. The amount of sodium that these places add to their food is in ridiculous amounts and they do that with reason. They must preserve the food and salt is the best way to do that. Here at Atlanta Personal Chef Service, our chefs go grocery shopping everyday in order to bring our clients fresh produce. We are here to help you maintain good heath without giving up on taste. Right now we serve cities around Atlanta including Marietta, Roswell, Buckhead, Dunwoody, Vinings, Brookhaven, and other cities surrounding Atlanta. We do weekly meals, dinner parties, cocktail parties, and more. So, contact us and find how we can help you eat right. Find us on Facebook.  

A Cup of Tea a Day, May Keep the Cancer Away

I’m not sure if you have noticed, but tea is making a comeback. If you go to the mall, there is a high percentage that you will see a store that only sells tea. It’s very impressive, since coffee still is the popular drink of choice. Perhaps, due to the heath factors that teas have or the less amount of caffeine (depending on the tea less, since some tea can have high levels of caffeine), more and more people are choosing tea or coffee.  Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to help you understand how a cup of tea a day, may go a long way to improve your health.

There are many types of teas out there, but for the sake of simplicity we are just going to talk about the two most famous:

Green tea, perhaps, the most popular of tea, is made with steamed tea leaves. Green tea has a high amount of EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), which is a powerful antioxidant.  Studies have showed that this antioxidant may prevent many types of cancer such as, stomach, bladder, breast and pancreatic cancers. EGCG is also in known to help with weight loss and brain heath. The caffeine amount is green tea is very low (about 25 mg for an eight oz cup).

Black tea is the tea that coffee drinkers might want to stick with. It has (about 47 mg for an eight oz cup compared to 95 mg in coffee). It is made with fermented teas leaves. Just like most teas, black teas have powerful antioxidants that may prevent many different types of cancers. However, the best benefit of black tea, according to research, is that prevents cancer from second hand smoking (being around smoke).

Atlanta Personal Chef Service cares about your health. We have chefs that serve weekly meals in Marietta, Kennesaw, Atlanta, Buck Head, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Roswell, Vinnings and other cities surrounding Atlanta. We also do dinner parties. Contact us and give us a try. We are here to help you making your life easier and healthier. 

Why is it hard to maintain a healthy weight?

The answer to this question lies in the history of mankind. Long ago when human being used to live in caves, it was essential for them to eat as much they could, so they could store energy (fat) in order to survive. They never knew when or what their next meal would be. They had to spend a lot of time hunting (exercising) and going after their next meal. So, to eat a lot and get fat was a survival tactic, especially during the winter months when food was scarce. Also, most of what our ancestors ate was a diet based of protein (meat and nuts), vegetables, seeds, and fruits. A much better diet than what most people usually have today. 

Once humans learned about agriculture, they spent less time running or working for their food. Still, agriculture was a very hard job. Today, most of our jobs are not physically demanded and food is everywhere with easy access. We no longer need store energy during the winter months in order to survive, but still our biology has not changed since the Stone Age. Our bodies still wants to store fat because it was made that way to survive, but we don’t spend enough energy anymore running after food (exercising) in order to keep a stable balance diet. People that live in big cities such as,  Atlanta and the cities surrounding, such as Marietta, Kennesaw, Dunwoody, Buckhead, Vinings, Brookhaven, Decatur and Alpharetta, they are always in a hurry eating fast food or big proportion restaurant meals. With easy access to food and less exercise we are bound to increase our weight.  

So, what should we do then? Essentially, we should try to live like our ancestors did. Eat a balance diet and exercise. Our bodies were made for survival. It wants to store fat and that is normal. It is part of our nature. We just need to make sure we put in our exercise as well. To maintain a healthy weight it is not rocket science, it is a change of habit. This habit should not be hard to change because we did it throughout most of our existence, only in the past one-hundred-fifty years that it has changed. Atlanta Personal Chef Service is also here to help. We provide healthy delicious meals to our clients in the right proportions. We can’t do the exercise for you, but we sure can help you in the eating healthy part. Give us a try and we will prove to you how delicious meals can be healthy and desirable.  

Grocery Shopping with Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Have you seen Atlanta Personal Chef Service's team of chefs shopping in your local Publix and Whole Food's stores?  We do most of our shopping in the early afternoon hours, so that dinner is ready when you come home from work.  But we also shop over the weekends to get the freshest ingredients for our dinner parties around Atlanta.

Take a look at the photo's below as we follow one of our Personal Chefs, Kym, who joined the Atlanta Personal Chef Service team in early January.  Kym cooks dinner three nights a week for a family of four in Buckhead.  With two working parents, and two school-aged children, there's just not enough hours in the day to prepare healthy, home-cooked meals as well.  But you don't have to give up that family time of dinner each night.  For many families, its the routine of enjoying a meal together every night that binds the family together across everyone's busy schedules.  Our service allows busy families to return to the dinner table, and create a lifestyle of eating together, and eating healthy, tasty meals.

If you'd like to find out more about Atlanta Personal Chef Service, please visit our website here.  Take a sneak peak into one of Kym's latest shopping trips.  Menus are customized for each family at the beginning of each week, and chef's bring the menus to guide their shopping each day.  Of course, we also always select the freshest ingredients, so you'll always see seasonal items on the menus.  Here, Chef Kym is shopping in Publix, but we also shop at Whole Foods, Harry's, and some specialty stores on occasion.

Spring Dinner Parties are in Season at Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Our Chefs were busy this weekend preparing some of our favorite spring featured dishes.  See the photos below for a look at the finished courses prepared by Atlanta Personal Chef Service:

Foie Gras on top of Toasted Brioche Bun and Fig Demi Glaze (Atlanta Personal Chef Service) 

Goat Cheese Tart with Roasted Tomatoes and Caramelized Onions (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Tomato Basil Bisque with Gruyere Crouton (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Spring Greens tossed with White Balsamic dressing with Apples, candied Pecans, and Goat Cheese Schnitzel (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Seared Red Snapper over herb poached Fingerling Potatoes, Haricot Verts and Spring Pea sauce (Atlanta Personal Chef Service)

Are you looking to host an intimate dinner party to celebrate a special occasion coming up?  Our talented team of chefs is excited to help each of our clients celebrate what's most important to them with those who are most important to them.  We do all the cooking in your house, so its truly amazing to see what fine food can come from your own kitchen!  Contact us (click here) to find out our availability and make your next celebration an intimate dinner with great food.

Executive Chef Patricia to judge local Culinary Competition

Atlanta Personal Chef Service's Executive Chef Patricia Homma will spend next weekend juding the 2013 Georgia Culinary and ProStart Management State Championships at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school.  This one day competition is a chance for aspiring young chefs to compete for the chance to move on to the National ProStart International competition in April in Maryland.  The competition is judged by some of Atlanta's top chefs, including Master Chefs, Executive Chefs, and restaurant executives.  Winning young chefs will receive thousands in culinary scholarships.

Chef Patricia started Atlanta Personal Chef Service after working in some of the fine dining restaurants of Atlanta.  Having received a culinary scholarship herself from winning the "Best Teen Chef in America" competition, the chance to give back to the community in this sense is extremely meaningful.  Patricia was the first-ever female winner of the national competition, which she won in 2003, which earned her a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Atlanta.

Interested in having Chef Patricia or one of Atlanta Personal Chef Service's team of chefs cook for you in your home?  We cook family dinners during the work week, and also serve up fancy, multi-course dinner parties to make that special occassion really memorable.  Contact us here for more information on our personal chef service.