Private Chef Dubai — a chef who comes back
A private chef Dubai service means one chef cooking for your family regularly. A personal chef Dubai search is the same job: one named cook, not a new person every week. Usually the same person each week, a written record of how you like to eat, and cover when your chef is away. We find the chef, agree the menu with you, and manage everything after that. If you only want one dinner cooked, that is catering.
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A standing household chef stays here. A one-night dinner goes to Luxury catering in Dubai.
What this is
What a private chef Dubai arrangement is
myCHEF is not a list of chefs for you to manage. We organise the chef for you: the match, the Food Profile, and the cover when your chef is away.
You are buying a standing in-home chef in Dubai. Usually the same person each week, a written record of how you like to eat, and one person to call when something changes. That is not the same as booking one dinner. A one-night dinner is Luxury catering in Dubai.
If you want breakfast to appear without briefing it, a villa that eats for weeks, or a family that does not want another person to manage — this is the page.
Which page
One night, or a chef who stays
A standing household chef stays on this page. A one-night dinner belongs on catering — not here.
Standing household chef
The same chef most weeks, a Food Profile, and cover when your chef is away. Hire a private chef in Dubai for your family rather than for one evening — this is the page for that.
You are on the right page
One-night dinner
A private chef for a dinner party in Dubai is catering: one evening, a team, then clear-down.
Luxury catering in DubaiWho it is for
What would make your week easier?
Not which cuisine, and not which evening. A chef at home in Dubai makes sense when the same problem comes back every week — for families, for villas, and for long stays.
Not everyone comes to this page for a dinner party. If the problem is six o'clock - everyone home late, nobody planned anything, and the same five meals coming round - then the fix is not a better recipe. It is not having to think about it. A standing chef sorts the week, not the evening.
I want the same chef regularly
The same person, week after week. We match one chef to your home and keep them there, with a team behind them for the weeks that do not go to plan.
I need meals several days a week
One, three or five days. Whether you want a part time cook in Dubai or the whole week covered, we build the plan around the days you actually need. Not a full-time hire you then have to keep busy.
I need meals through the day, not one dinner
Choose the meal that matters, or the whole day. Working time is defined before we start, so “daily” never means one thing to you and another to the chef.
I do not want another person to manage
Matching, feedback, absence and replacement sit with us. You are not the scheduler, the backup plan, or HR for the person who cooks.
I need the kitchen to keep running if they are off
Cover is part of the service. Your Food Profile goes to whoever steps in, so they arrive already knowing how you eat.
I need this for a family, a villa, or a long stay
A standing private chef in a Dubai home — not a one-night dinner. Our private chef service in Dubai is built for households that eat here week after week, not for single events.
Why it is managed
Finding a chef is easy. Keeping your kitchen running every week is the hard part.
Hiring on your own means you handle the matching, the feedback, the cover when someone is away and the replacing. We handle all of that. Your part is telling us what you like to eat.
Same chef
The same person, week after week. You should not have to explain breakfast again every Monday.
Managed
The match, the feedback, the cover when your chef is away, the replacement if it comes to that — all of it is ours. You are not taking on a second job to manage the person who cooks.
Backup
If the usual chef is off, the Food Profile travels. The next chef is not starting from zero.
Your side of it
The chef cooks. We do everything around it.
We find the chef, agree the menu with you, and manage the arrangement from there. Every home scores the chef after each visit, and you have one person to call.
Starting
Level 1the price is the price
Every chef starts here. The price you pay does not change.
Good work
Level 2a month of strong service
Consistently strong feedback across a full month of service.
Kept good work
Level 3three months of strong service
That standard held for three months. Catering work opens up.
If it slips
Level downback to the previous rate
We speak to the chef first. If it does not recover they move back a level. If it still does not, we replace them.
Four days a week on Kitchen on Autopilot is sixteen visits in four weeks. A long month sometimes lands a seventeenth, and we bill that only when it happens. What you pay does not change when a chef moves up a level — that side of it is ours to look after, and you are never asked to pay more for the person you already like.
The overview
The detail, in five parts
This page is the overview. There are separate pages on how it works, who the chefs are, how we keep the standard, who comes into your home, and what it costs.
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How It Works
The brief, the match, the Food Profile, and backup when the week is not normal.
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Our Chefs
Who we send you, and how we choose them.
Read more03
Quality & Training
How the standard holds after month four — not only on day one.
Read more04
Privacy & Security
Who enters the home, what they need to know, and what they do not.
Read more05
Pricing & Plans
Chef, schedule and household — then a monthly figure in writing.
Read moreContinuity
Same chef, with backup behind them
Normally we build the week around one person. Someone who already knows how you take your coffee, what the children will eat, and what Friday looks like in your house.
The relationship is not dependent on one individual. If they are off, or the match is wrong, you are not starting again. The Food Profile travels. We send a replacement or rotate a specialist. You talk to one contact.
See how backup and replacement work
Food Profile
The chef learns how you live. We write it down, so you never have to teach it twice.
This is a demonstration of the record we keep — not a real client, and not a review. When the chef changes, this does not.
- Breakfast
- 08:00
- Children
- No mushrooms
- Allergy
- Sesame — never
- Spice
- 3 / 5
- Weekdays
- High protein
- Coffee
- Flat white, oat milk
- Friday
- Guests often join
- Service
- Quiet mornings
See how the Food Profile is built
You meet the chef before anything starts
Nobody is sent to your door unannounced. You meet the chef first, and the Food Profile is built with them - how your household eats, the allergies, the timings, what the children will and will not touch. Most chefs come and see the kitchen, look at what is there and talk through the groceries before the first cooking day. By the time your chef starts, they will already have visited your kitchen, discussed your household's preferences and reviewed the available equipment and working environment.
How often the chef comes
Choose the household rhythm
We build the plan around the days and meals you actually need — not a package named after an occasion.
Trust
Who we put in your kitchen
A personal chef in Dubai is matched to your kitchen, not simply hired. Anyone can check a chef once, on the day they start. We score every visit, so the standard has to hold — not just be reached once.
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Identity and credentials
We choose chefs on experience, and we check the skill and the professionalism of every one before we put them forward for your home.
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Practical assessment
A cook-off, not a conversation about cooking.
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Household fit
Matched to your kitchen, your routine and your family — not to the longest CV.
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One contact
Feedback, absence and replacement go through your household manager, not through you as HR.
How we maintain service quality
Our quality process continues after a chef has been selected for an experience.
We use client feedback, service history and ongoing performance assessment to help us understand how each experience is being delivered.
We look at areas such as: food quality and presentation; professionalism and punctuality; cleanliness and kitchen care; communication; understanding of client preferences; consistency across repeat bookings; and overall client satisfaction.
Strong performance is recognised and rewarded across the myCHEF network.
The objective is simple: every experience should help us make the next one better.
Pricing
What you pay depends on the chef, the days you need, and the size of your household.
Displayed figures are Professional Chef on a long-term plan, before VAT. Groceries are charged at actual cost. Build your own figure on Pricing & Plans.
Try the service without a long-term commitment
Start with a paid trial and continue only if the chef is right for your household. You may pause or cancel at any time by giving us at least 24 hours' notice before your next scheduled service.
Services cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice, completed services, groceries already purchased and non-refundable or committed third-party costs remain payable. Where a discounted package is cancelled early, completed services may be recalculated at the applicable standard rate before the remaining balance is refunded or credited.
Part-time household
One fresh meal a week
From AED 3,000 / month
Same chef, one cooked meal a week — the smallest long-term plan.
Regular household
Kitchen on Autopilot, five days a week
From AED 18,500 / month
Planning, shopping, cooking and cleanup handled — the managed kitchen.
Full household arrangement
Full-day chef, five days a week
From AED 26,400 / month
Someone in the kitchen all day, working to your timetable rather than a fixed shift.
September only
AED 1,500 a day. AED 1,040 this September.
A full-day chef is nine hours in your kitchen: the planning, the shopping, the cooking and the clearing up. AED 1,300 a day through September, and down to AED 1,040 a day at twenty days or more. Full-day chef only.
A full-day plan takes most of one chef's month, so there are six places this September. Agree your plan this month and we hold the rate for three months.
Private Chef Dubai: What should I know before starting a household chef in Dubai?
Short answers. The system, the chefs, privacy and the full price logic each have their own page.
At myCHEF, a private chef is a standing household arrangement: the same chef in your home, matched, assessed and managed. A single dinner is Luxury catering in Dubai. This page is for a chef who comes back. See how the household chef system works.
Normally yes. We build the plan around one chef. If they are off, or the match is wrong, the Food Profile travels and myCHEF coordinates continuity. Read how replacement works.
The record of how you eat — timing, children, allergies, spice, coffee, guests, service style. You tell us once. When the chef changes, this is what gets handed over. See how the Food Profile is built.
Yes. Shopping can be part of the job, and we charge groceries at what the receipts say. What the children will eat — including what they refuse, and any allergies — sits in your Food Profile. Groceries and grocery shopping arrangements are agreed before the service begins: chef-only services require the ingredients to be available when the chef arrives, and where grocery shopping is included the quotation states the agreed shopping time or allowance. Groceries, transport and additional shopping time are charged separately unless expressly included in the package. Full detail is on Pricing & Plans.
Yes. If the match is wrong we change the chef, and your Food Profile stays where it is. You can also keep your weekday chef and add a specialist for the meal that needs one — finding that person is our job, not yours. See quality and matching and how rotation works.
Allergies are part of the Food Profile, not an afterthought. Halal sourcing is the default. We do not claim an allergic reaction can never happen. If a request is professionally unsafe, safety comes before preference.
One price per job, whoever cooks it. Fresh Meal (3 hours) AED 750, Private Chef Food Prep (4h) AED 900, Kitchen on Autopilot (5h) AED 1,050, Full-Day Private Chef (9h) AED 1,500 — so a weekly Fresh Meal is AED 3,000 a month before VAT, and four days a week of Autopilot is 16 visits at AED 16,800. From five days a week the household rate improves; short stays of 3–29 days carry a higher daily rate. Build your figure on Pricing & Plans. A one-night dinner is Luxury catering in Dubai.
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If this is what you want at home
Start the household plan
Book a private chef in Dubai after the figure is in writing. Long-term plans from AED 3,000 a month for a weekly Fresh Meal — up to a full-day chef, seven days a week. Build the plan on the pricing page, send it, and the exact figure arrives before anyone starts.
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Everything about the household chef service, in one place.