Personal Chef at Home em Almada

About our service in Almada

A standard private dinner is a three-and-a-half-hour service for six to eight guests with four courses — typically an amuse-bouche, a cold starter such as polvo à lagareiro salad, a main of grilled robalo or pork from Alentejo, and Moscatel parfait or chocolate fondant to close. Larger formats include garden parties for thirty guests in Sobreda villas and corporate dinners for twelve in Pragal apartments. Lead time is forty-eight hours for intimate dinners and roughly a week for catered events above twenty. Each booking follows the same flow: free WhatsApp consultation, tailored menu with two options per course, sourcing at the municipal markets and the Cacilhas fish stalls, on-site cooking, full service, and a spotless kitchen at the end. Our chefs work confidently across Cacilhas, Pragal, Almada centro, Cova da Piedade, Sobreda, Feijó, Laranjeiro, Charneca da Caparica, Trafaria and Costa da Caparica. Menus are paired with Setúbal Peninsula wines including Moscatel de Setúbal, DOC Palmela reds based on the Castelão grape and crisp Arrábida whites. For coastal residents and holiday rentals along Costa da Caparica, we lean into Atlantic seafood: grilled sea bass, octopus carpaccio, garlic shrimp and the classic cataplana de marisco. For the international community we routinely adapt menus to vegan, gluten-free, kosher and halal requirements, and our chefs also cook Italian, Levantine, Japanese-inspired and Anglo-American comfort plates when requested. Recent bookings give a flavour of demand. A fiftieth birthday on a riverside terrace in Cacilhas with twenty-two guests and a five-course Setúbal tasting menu finished with Moscatel-soaked figs. A weekly meal-prep subscription for a Pragal expat family of four, focused on Mediterranean lunches, vegetarian protein bowls and kid-friendly dinners with school-night reheating instructions. A discreet investor dinner for ten in a Sobreda villa, with a quiet wine pairing, an early plated start and no service team beyond the chef so conversation could stay private. A relaxed Sunday lunch for sixteen on a Costa da Caparica beach-house terrace with a whole grilled robalo as the centrepiece. We bring all professional equipment, source the ingredients, cook entirely in your kitchen, plate beautifully, and leave every surface, pan and serving plate spotless before we go.

Our personal chef services in Almada include:

Services Included

• Private dinners and special events
• Custom personalized menu cooking
• Catering for parties and celebrations
• Weekly healthy meal prep
• Home cooking classes

Areas We Serve

We cover the full Almada municipality: Almada centro, Cacilhas, Pragal, Cova da Piedade, Sobreda, Feijó, Laranjeiro, Charneca da Caparica, Trafaria and Costa da Caparica. We can also serve apartments along the riverside walkway between Cacilhas and Ginjal.

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