A private chef, in your kitchen, on your island.
Your chef shops that morning, arrives before service, cooks in your villa kitchen, serves dinner, and leaves the kitchen clean. This page explains the model statewide; each island owns its own rate card and roster.
What a private chef evening looks like
A signature dinner is a restaurant-grade tasting in your own dining room: a menu agreed in writing beforehand, groceries bought that day, courses plated and introduced, dietary flags handled quietly, and a kitchen left cleaner than the chef found it.
Pricing is per guest and published: $125–$250 depending on island and tier, groceries inside the band. The fee stack — 20% service and Hawaiʻi GET up to 4.7120% — always appears on its own lines, and the written quote is the confirmed total.
One evening, or the whole stay
Most bookings are a single signature dinner or a date night for two. The Stay Chef product puts the same chef in your villa kitchen for the length of the trip — breakfasts, kids’ meals, dinners — from $850–$1,100 a day depending on island.
Where the island sites take over
Menus, rosters, travel zones, and minimums are island-specific. The hub publishes the statewide picture; the island sites publish the numbers you’ll actually be quoted.
Questions, answered
Signature dinners run $125–$250 per guest depending on island and tier, with groceries included inside the band. Stay Chef multi-day service runs from $850–$1,100 per day. The 20% service charge and Hawaiʻi GET up to 4.7120% always appear on their own lines.
A workable kitchen — stove, oven, counter space, running water — is enough; your chef brings the kit. We decline hotel rooms without kitchens, because a coffee maker is not a kitchen, and we will suggest alternatives instead.
Two to four weeks is comfortable in normal seasons; December through March and holiday weeks book first and can need months. A 50% deposit locks the date — only after you have seen the written quote.
Keep reading
- core Tell us about the table.
- core Four islands. Four kitchens.
- core Catering for the event, staffed and written down.
- wedding A wedding week, fed properly.
- core A chef for the stay, not just the evening.
- service Feeding the retreat, not just the group.
- service Corporate catering that reads like a spec sheet.
- service Multi-island catering across Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi & Big Island.
Get a written quote
The button is not “Book now.” You tell us the table; we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total.