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Evan Thieme, a private chef cooking Modern fine dining & sushi around Park City, Utah

Evan Thieme, Private Chef in Park City

Modern fine dining & sushi · drives from Utah Valley

4.7 ★ over 10 ratings

Fine-dining plates and a proper sushi menu, both starting at $145 a guest.

from $145/guest

everything in, per head

What Evan charges

Three menus, each with its own per-guest figure. Shopping, cooking, plating and the washing-up are already inside every number below.

$145/guest

Japanese & Sushi

3 plates · Japanese

A sushi service run out of your kitchen, with a hot first course and a dessert flight to close.

  • First course — Pork gyoza, or tempura shrimp
  • Main — Assorted rolls — salmon, tuna and eel, all of it included rather than counted
  • Dessert — Black sesame mocha cake, lemon verbena cream, ricotta cheesecake or ube meringue

$155/guest

Seasonal Tasting

4 plates · seasonal

The menu he would rather cook: four courses set by what the season is doing, capped at fifteen guests.

  • Bread service — Baked that day, with butter
  • First course — Brûléed pear salad, or a creamy raviolo
  • Main — A steak, a fish or a poultry dish, cooked to the plate
  • Dessert — Almond pear tart, or tiramisu

$165/guest

Gourmet Tasting

4 plates · two firsts

The wider version, with two first courses instead of one and the premium end of the protein list open.

  • Bread service — The same opener, then straight into the choosing
  • Two first courses — Picked from salads, pasta and seafood
  • Main — One dish from the premium meats, the fish, or the vegetarian list
  • Dessert — One, chosen with the rest of the menu

Nothing here quite right? The per-guest logic holds for anything Evan quotes off the list too — you see the figure with the menu, before you agree to a date.

About Evan

Evan cooks the most obviously restaurant-looking food on this roster — sauce pooled and dotted, herbs placed one at a time, the sort of plate people photograph before they eat it. He learned it in Utah Valley kitchens and by reading and testing on his own time, and he works farm-to-table in the literal sense: the menu gets decided close to the date because he wants to know what he can actually get. He is also the only chef here who will do a full sushi service, rolling salmon, tuna and eel in the kitchen you are staying in. Groups of twenty have gone through his tasting menu without the pacing falling apart, which is not true of everyone who says they can do it.

  • The only chef on the roster running a full sushi menu
  • Menus are finalised close to the date so the produce decides the dishes
  • Has plated a tasting menu for a group of nearly twenty without losing the pacing

Cooks: Plated fine dining · Sushi and raw fish · Seasonal tasting formats · Sourcing close to the date.

Background: trained in Utah Valley restaurant kitchens; largely self-directed: reading, testing, and travelling; works to a farm-to-table sourcing rule.

Groups book Evan for dinner parties, anniversaries, birthdays and groups that want a tasting menu.

Cooks most often in: Old Town Park City, Canyons Village, Deer Valley, Jordanelle, Midway, Heber City.

Plates Evan has sent out

A course from a private dinner cooked by Evan Thieme in Park City, UtahA course from a private dinner cooked by Evan Thieme in Park City, UtahA course from a private dinner cooked by Evan Thieme in Park City, Utah

What guests wrote afterwards

“Almost twenty of us and not one person was left out — there was something on the menu for everybody. He explained each course as it went down, and the presentation was the part people kept talking about afterwards.”

— Park City · 4.8 ★

“Creative, precisely portioned and genuinely delicious. You sit down and he does all of it. The pride he takes in the plates is not subtle, and it comes through in how they taste.”

— Park City · 5.0 ★

“Booked him for my wife’s birthday. On time, easy to reach beforehand, everything tasted the way it looked, and he cleaned the kitchen before he left. No notes.”

— Park City · 5.0 ★

Get Evan into the house

Modern fine dining & sushi from $145 a guest, cooked wherever you are staying. Send the dates and the headcount and the rest sorts itself out.

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