Private Chef
Private Chefs in Wellington
Private chefs who cook for a Wellington household on show days, at a full table after a long afternoon, and in the family's other homes.
Wellington
A private chef in Wellington, Florida works to a calendar the horses set as much as the family does. In the winter season mornings start early, days are spent at the barn or the show grounds, and the dinner table may seat only the family one night and a crowd of guests the next. The Wellington Agency places private chefs in Wellington who cook the daily meals, run dinner parties and carry the holidays.
Chefs tend to travel with the families they cook for, and some households here spend part of the year somewhere else. It is worth deciding at the outset whether yours will, because a chef hired for one kitchen and then asked to run three is doing a different job.
The role in Wellington
Cooking around the Wellington season
Healthy cooking is among the requests, and in an active household it is practical rather than fashionable: food that works before an early ride, a lunch that can travel to the show grounds, a dinner that restores rather than undoes the day. Gluten-free and paleo are asked for too, and a good chef plans the week around them so nobody at the table gets a lesser version of the meal.
Entertaining scales with the season. Polo matches, show weeks and visiting friends can put a household into hosting mode for weeks at a time, and the chef who cooks a quiet family supper on Tuesday may be planning a dinner party for Friday. Cuisine requests run from Italian, Greek and farm-to-table to sushi and Indian, and Palm Beach County's farms and coastline give a chef good produce and fish through the winter.
Holidays are their own project, with menus planned weeks ahead and ingredients ordered early. For some families that also means keeping a kosher kitchen across a holiday that runs for several days.
Why Wellington
How we find a chef for a Wellington household
The Wellington Agency's main office is here in Wellington. Cooking well in a restaurant and cooking well for one family are different skills. A private chef feeds the same few people for months, notices what comes back to the kitchen, and adjusts without being asked. Our chefs are chosen for how they adapt to a household's preferences, routines and privacy as well as for technique, and many come from fine dining, luxury hospitality, private estates and yachts.
Wellington clients ask for bilingual staff, and a chef who can work with the house team and with vendors in a second language is easier to have in the kitchen. Most chefs also handle purchasing, menu planning and the pantry, so tell us how much of the kitchen you want them to own.
Questions
Frequently asked
Yes, if it is in the brief. Season mornings in Wellington start early, and a chef who knows the day begins at the barn will plan breakfast around it. Agree the hours up front, since roles here are live-out and the commute counts.
Many do; chefs tend to travel with the families they cook for. If your household moves north for the summer or between several residences, settle it before hiring, because it changes who we present.
Kosher cooking is one of the requests we see, alongside gluten-free, paleo and other diets. Say so at the start, including the level of observance and whether the kitchen is already set up for it, so we present chefs with real experience of it.
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