Who cooks these dinners, and why the price is published
Private Chef Park City is five working chefs and one rule: the figure goes on the page. Dinners cooked start to finish in the kitchen you are staying in, priced per head before anybody asks you for a phone number.
Why a number comes first
Almost nobody planning a week up here lives in Utah. You are booking a house for six nights from three states away, trying to work out whether a chef costs $80 a head or $300, and every site you open wants your email address before it will say. That gap is the entire reason this one exists.
The fix is not clever. Every chef publishes the menus they genuinely cook with a per-head figure stuck to each one, the three packages do not slide, and whatever comes back to you matches what you already read. Where somebody has a constraint — a seven-guest floor, a surcharge when the weather turns, a menu that only exists at a table of two — it is written down on this site instead of raised later.
What gets cooked ranges from a set four-course Greek menu at $145 to a French dinner with two mains and two desserts at $220. What stays constant is the shape of the evening: someone drives up with the groceries, cooks in the kitchen you are staying in, and leaves it emptier than they found it.
The roster, in numbers
- 5
- chefs, ordered by how much they work up here
- $145
- the lowest full dinner anyone here sells, per guest
- 104
- ratings left across the five of them
- 54
- menus published with a price on each one
Four rules
- The number comes before the form
- Three out of every four people typing this search into Google want one thing, and it is not a cuisine. Which is why a number comes first here: a per-head figure that already contains the shopping and the washing-up, put in writing the moment a menu is agreed.
- Five people, not a dispatch queue
- Everyone here has a rated history of dinners in and around Park City, and the roster is ordered by how much they actually work up here. You are picking a person whose reviews you can read, not filing a request.
- Rental kitchens are the normal case
- Most of these evenings happen in a house or a condo somebody booked for the week. The chefs plan around unfamiliar ovens, missing pans and checkout rules, because that is the job here rather than the exception.
- Constraints get stated up front
- One chef takes seven guests or more. One has a menu that only works at a table of two. Weather can add a travel fee to a hard-to-reach address. All of it is written on the profiles instead of surfacing after you have picked someone.
Where: Old Town and Main Street, Prospector, Park Meadows, Deer Valley and Silver Lake, Empire Pass, Canyons Village, Kimball Junction, Newpark, Jeremy Ranch, Pinebrook, Silver Creek, Trailside, Promontory, Glenwild and Hideout. Midway, Heber City and jobs down in the Salt Lake Valley carry a published surcharge.
Read the numbers, then pick a person
Three packages, five profiles, and no form standing between you and either.
Park City rates