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.

Use a Personal Chef for a Truly Unique Proposal

Proposal season has arrived! Grooms-to-be all over Atlanta and Buckhead are thinking up crafty ways to pop that question to their significant other. Some are reserving seats in fancy Buckhead restaurants planning to propose to their girlfriends, while others are planning a surprise in the park. But why not try something different that is more romantic and less crowded? For those of you who live around the Perimeter area of Atlanta (Marietta, Buckhead, Dunwoody, Midtown, Vinings), Atlanta Personal Chef Service would be happy to help you plan a special evening for the big proposal. Have an intimate dinner in the coziness of your home or condo, while our chefs cook and serve a menu tailored just for you. All of our chefs have experience in high end restaurants and know how to make a memorable evening with great food. Atlanta Personal Chef Service will work with you to customize your perfect menu. We will gladly show you some samples menus, which you are encouraged to customize as you like. For example, if you have gone to Buckhead Diner or any other restaurant and had a dish you really enjoyed, we will gladly cook a similar (and better!) dish for you. We are a professional service dedicated to planning and executing a wonderful dinner that you and your future bride will always remember. Atlanta Personal Chef Service serves Atlanta, Buckhead, Marietta, Dunwoody, Midtown and other areas around the perimeter with tasty dinners and wonderful memories. Find out more about our dinner service here.

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.

A Great Valentine's Day with a Personal Chef

Looking for a unique, personalized, and romantic gift for Valentine's Day?  Surprise that special someone with a private four-course dinner prepared by a personal chef in the comfort of your own home.  Don't fight the crowds and lines of the restaurants on the 14th.  Enjoy fine-dining from the comfort of your own dining table.  This year, we've put together a menu that provides a tasting of Atlanta Personal Chef Service.  The menu is below:

Valentine’s Day 2013

Soup

Tomato Basil Bisque with Manchego Crostini

Salad

Red Wine Poached Pear Mixed Green Salad with Goat Cheese and Cranberry Walnut croutons tossed with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Entrée

Seared Filet Mignon with Cabernet Sauce over roasted Root Vegetable purée with sautéed Asparagus

(Herb Crusted Lamb Chops $10 additional)

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Seared Salmon with Beurre Blanc sauce over Mushroom Risotto with Brocollini

Dessert

Chocolate Lava Cake with Assorted Berries and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

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Crème Brûlée garnished with Fresh Berries

Your chef will arrive about 2 hours before your scheduled meal time, with fresh ingredients in hand, and prepare your dinner in your own kitchen.  That means you'll need to have a working oven and stove, and some extra space in the fridge.  All you'll have to do is pick out your favorite bottle of wine or champagne, and enjoy the meal.  Your chef will do all the cooking, serve each course of the meal as if you were in a fine restaurant, and clean up everything afterwards.  The cost of the service, food included, is $350 for two.  (Please contact us for special rates for dinners with multiple couples. Dinners held outside the Perimeter will incur an additional $20 travel fee.)

We only have a few reservations left for the 14th, so contact us or call us today to schedule your Valentine's Day Dinner!

Dinner Parties by Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Dinner parties with Atlanta Personal Chef Service will ensure great food and good time for everyone, including the host.  Here, we'll walk you through one party from start to finish.  This dinner party in Buckhead, hosted by Atlanta Personal Chef Service, highlighted cuisine from the French tradition.  As guests arrived, they warmed up their taste buds with the following:
 

Hors D’Oeuvres:

Crostinis with Chicken Liver Pate garnished with Shallot Marmalade

Prosciutto wrapped Asparagus Tips

Spinach and Artichoke Gratin in Quiche Shell

Atlanta Personal Chef Service - Hors D'Oeuvres before the meal

Following the Hors D'Oeuvres, guests made their way into the dining room, and were introduced to tonight's menu at their place setting.

Menu made by Atlanta Personal Chef Service

Next, the four course meal was plated and served as it would be in a fine-dining restaurant.  Here's a sneak peak at each course!

Atlanta Personal Chef Service -St. Jacques Provençales                                            

Atlanta Personal Chef Service -Red Wine Poached Pear Mixed Green Salad with Buttermilk Blue crumbles, Raisin Bread croutons

Atlanta Personal Chef Service - Beef Bourguignon with Whipped Potato and sautéed Brussels Sprouts 

Atlanta Personal Chef Service - Crème Brûlée garnished with Fresh Berries

 Lastly, take a sneak peak in the kitchen... where the magic happens!  Atlanta Personal Chefs are hard at work preparing all the food from the finest, freshest ingredients.

Atlanta Personal Chef David keeps a close eye on the stove

Atlanta Personal Chef Patricia prepares the Creme Brulee

Atlanta Personal Chef David seasons the potatoes

Are you interested in having Atlanta Personal Chef Service cook for your next dinner party?  Give us a call today!  Please keep in mind that much preparation goes into each and every party, so its best to reserve you party at least two weeks in advance.  Also, visit our website for more pictures sample menus.