From a prewar Upper West Side classic six to a Tribeca loft, Chefpost matches you with a vetted private chef in NYC who plans the menu, carries up the groceries, cooks in your galley kitchen, serves each course, and leaves the place cleaner than they found it. Apartment dinner parties, engagements, and weekly meal prep, all without you fighting for a reservation.
A private chef in New York City comes up to your apartment, cooks a restaurant-caliber meal in whatever kitchen you have, and washes every dish before heading out. Chefpost pairs you with background-checked local chefs for one-off dinners, celebrations, and standing weekly meal prep. In this market most in-home dinners run $85 to $200 per guest, and the chef owns the menu, the shopping, the cooking, and the cleanup.
New York is the deepest restaurant city in the country, and our chefs come out of that same talent pool, so the range runs from handmade pasta and a multi-course omakase to French bistro classics, Mediterranean spreads, and sharp New American tasting menus. You can browse chefs and read real reviews before you commit to a date.
Two things New Yorkers get wrong: a private chef is not a caterer, and it is not the unreachable luxury you picture when you imagine cooking staff.
Catering shows up in foil trays that were cooked in a commissary across the river and reheated on your counter. A private chef cooks live, in your own kitchen, and plates each course the second it is ready. In a small New York apartment, that means the room fills with the smell of dinner, your guests talk to the chef over the pass, and nothing sits under a warming lamp. The tight space is not a problem, it is the whole intimate point.
Chefpost is a marketplace of vetted personal chefs across New York City and the surrounding boroughs. Every chef is background-checked, food-safety verified, and rated by real hosts who booked them. You browse profiles, pick a menu, and lock a date. We are the layer that turns finding a trustworthy chef into a ten-minute task instead of a doorman recommendation you have to take on faith.
Four steps from first message to a clean kitchen. No cooking, no shopping, no cleanup for you.
Your date, New York City neighborhood, guest count, occasion, and any allergies or dietary needs.
Latin, Mediterranean, Italian, omakase, plant-based, seafood, or a fully custom tasting menu.
We surface vetted New York City chefs who fit your menu, headcount, and budget, each with real reviews.
Your chef shops, cooks in your kitchen, plates every course, serves, and leaves it spotless.
The formats our NYC chefs get asked for most. Every menu is built around your guests, your kitchen, and your budget.
A plated, multi-course dinner for six to twelve, sized for a Chelsea loft or a Gramercy prewar. The default way New Yorkers turn a Friday into an event without leaving the building.
A sushi chef sets up at your kitchen island and serves nigiri and hand rolls piece by piece. The answer to a months-out reservation at the counter you actually wanted.
Bistro classics done properly, from a Greenwich Village date to a milestone birthday in the West Village. Butter, technique, and a slow last course by candlelight.
A chef takes over your kitchen one day a week, cooks several days of meals, and leaves them portioned in the fridge. Built for Financial District and Murray Hill professionals who work late. Around $300 to $500 per week.
A slow spread for a birthday, a baby shower, or a group of friends who are not interested in a ninety-minute wait at a SoHo brunch spot. Coffee, eggs, and no line.
A quiet tasting for two, cooked and served in your own place. No booth by the kitchen door, no rushing dessert so they can turn the table over for the next seating.
An honest take from the Chefpost team on why this format fits the city.
“New York invented the dinner reservation and then made it impossible to get. The best tables are booked a month out, priced like an event, and hand you your check while you are still on the last course. Meanwhile the apartments up and down this island were built to host, prewar dining rooms, roof decks, that one friend with the corner two-bedroom. A private chef takes the part everyone loves about a night out, being cooked for and served, and moves it behind your own door, small kitchen and all.”
Book a private chef anywhere across Manhattan and beyond.
Other ways to eat well without cooking, and nearby cities we serve.
Tell us your date and menu, and we will match you with a vetted New York City private chef in minutes.
The questions New York City hosts ask us most before they book.
