Private Chef · Bespoke Cuisine · Tailored For You
Exquisite, chef-curated meals using fresh, premium-quality ingredients — prepared fresh in your kitchen and tailored to your guests' exact tastes.
Whether it's an intimate dinner or a special occasion, we handle everything so you can fully enjoy the moment.
Custom meal plans designed around your taste, schedule, and health goals — with shopping lists and easy-to-follow prep guides included.
Ideal for busy individuals or families who want to eat well without the daily hassle.
Experience the ease of having a dedicated chef handle your daily meals — tailored to your preferences, dietary needs, and schedule.
From weekly planning to daily execution, enjoy gourmet dining at home without lifting a finger.
A glimpse of recent dishes from private events and weekly meal plans. Every menu, original.
A refined process designed to deliver a culinary experience tailored entirely to you. For weekly meal prep, the rhythm looks like this:
A menu written for your week — not a catalog everyone picks from. It lands in your inbox and your private portal with full macros on every dish.
Choose your meals in the portal. Change your mind as many times as you like until the deadline — after that the shopping list is locked in.
Your list gets shopped by hand across two days — produce chosen the morning it looks best, protein sourced for your specific dishes. Nothing arrives in a delivery crate sight unseen.
Everything is cooked fresh in one focused day, then chilled and packed the same afternoon. Nothing is batch-made weeks ahead and thawed into a container.
At your door the next morning — every container labeled with the dish, its macros, and how to reheat it. Open the fridge and the week is already handled.
We meet to understand your taste, dietary needs, and the occasion. Allergies, favorites, lifestyle — every detail informs the menu.
Your CFR chef crafts a menu around you. Seasonal, sourced from trusted local purveyors, and refined to match the energy of your event or week.
Ingredients are hand-selected. Mise en place is exact. Dishes are prepared fresh — in your kitchen for events, in our certified kitchen for meal prep.
Plated and served with care. Meal prep is delivered chilled, labeled, with reheat instructions. Events leave nothing for you to manage but the moment.
I'm a private chef based in the Chicago area with over a decade of experience cooking for families, executives, and private events. My focus is simple — great food that actually fits your life.
Every menu I build is custom. Whether you need weekly meal prep, a dinner party, or a full-time chef, I work around your schedule, your taste, and any dietary needs without making it complicated.
Save time with a private chef. Tell us about your needs and we'll craft something extraordinary.
Most meal prep stops at "healthy." When a diagnosis sets the rules, every ingredient has to clear a specific threshold — and one wrong shortcut undoes the week. That work is done here by hand, dish by dish, to the targets your care team has already set.
Sodium, potassium, and phosphorus each held inside their own limit while protein lands where your nephrologist wants it. No bouillon, no salt substitutes, no hidden phosphate additives — flavor is built from herbs, aromatics, citrus, and vinegar instead.
Consultation required · targets confirmed in writingCarbohydrate held consistent meal to meal so it's predictable against medication and monitoring, with fiber and protein doing the work of blunting the curve. Every plate is labeled with its exact macros.
Consultation required · carb targets set by your care teamA genuinely low-sodium kitchen, not a lightly-salted one — which means no canned stock, no cured meats, and no jarred sauces. DASH-aligned produce and whole grains, seasoned with technique rather than salt.
Consultation requiredStrict gluten-free with cross-contact taken seriously: separate prep surfaces, dedicated equipment, and certified ingredients verified individually rather than assumed. Different discipline entirely from a gluten-free preference.
Consultation required · kitchen protocol reviewed with youBuilt around the elimination and reintroduction structure rather than a permanent restriction list, so meals track whatever phase you're actually in. Onion and garlic replaced with infused oils that keep the flavor.
Consultation required · phase-aware menusVegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, keto, paleo, dairy-free, and single-ingredient allergies — handled as a matter of course on any weekly plan, with no consultation needed beyond the usual intake.
Included with standard meal prepBecause your numbers aren't the same as anyone else's. Two people with kidney disease can need opposite protein targets depending on whether they're on dialysis — cooking to the wrong side of that isn't a preference issue, it's a safety one. So these menus get written per client, per week, against the figures your physician or registered dietitian has given you.
The first conversation is about gathering those numbers and confirming what your kitchen actually needs. It costs nothing and there's no obligation.
Culinary for Royalty™ is a private chef service, not a medical or nutrition practice. We do not diagnose conditions, prescribe diets, or set nutritional targets. We cook precisely to the parameters provided by your physician or registered dietitian, and we'll ask for those in writing before the first cook day.
Start a ConsultationA good share of these plans are set up by someone other than the person eating — an adult child arranging meals for a parent after a diagnosis, an assistant managing a principal's household, a spouse who has quietly become the one keeping track of it all.
That's a normal way to start, and the whole process is built to work that way.
We are based in Orland Park and serve the greater Chicago area, including the south and west suburbs. If you are unsure whether you are in range, just reach out — we will let you know right away.
Choose a plan, and each week your chef sends you that week's custom menu. You pick your meals through your personal selection link, and everything arrives fresh, chilled, and labeled with reheat instructions. Open, heat, and enjoy.
Menu selections close Thursdays at 10pm so we can shop and prep everything fresh for the week. Selections after the deadline roll to the following week.
Absolutely. Every menu is custom, so allergies, intolerances, and preferences are built in from the start — gluten free, dairy free, high protein, low carb, and more. Tell us once and every week is tailored accordingly.
Yes. Renal (chronic kidney disease), carb-controlled diabetic, low-sodium cardiac, strict celiac, and low-FODMAP menus are all cooked here, written per client and per week. These require a short consultation first, because we cook to the specific targets your physician or registered dietitian has set rather than to a general template — and we'll ask for those numbers in writing. We're a private chef service, not a nutrition practice: we don't diagnose conditions or set the targets ourselves. More on specialized diets.
Often that's exactly how it starts. The account can be in their name while billing stays with you, delivery goes to their address on a standing schedule, and we're happy to coordinate directly with their dietitian, care team, or family. You'll get confirmation each week that the delivery landed — helpful if you don't live nearby.
Yes — private dinner parties, celebrations, and catering are a core part of what we do. Your chef designs the menu around your occasion and handles everything from preparation to service.
Weekly meal prep is a flat $275 Private Chef Fee that covers up to 10 meals. Additional meals are $20 each, with volume discounts starting at 16 meals. Groceries are billed separately as a flat reimbursement on top of the chef fee. Private events are quoted based on your menu and party size. Full details are on our pricing page.
If anything doesn't hit the mark — the flavor, the portion, the macros — we remake it completely free, no questions asked. Your satisfaction isn't optional. It's our standard.
