Private Chef Dubai Price. Clear from the start.

A managed household plan includes more than the chef’s time. myCHEF coordinates selection, scheduling, food preferences and ongoing support for a chef who cooks regularly in your home.

Your plan can include chef matching, household onboarding, your Food Profile, ongoing quality follow-up, schedule management, support when requirements change, and access to replacement or additional culinary staff where needed.

You still get the consistency of a regular chef, without having to build and manage the operating system around them yourself.

There is one word for the person who cooks in your home: a professional chef. Nobody is placed until we have checked identity and right to work, passed them on a practical cooking assessment, taken references and confirmed food-hygiene awareness. The entry level is a pass, not a budget option.

For recurring visits, the calculator shows the rate for your chosen service, schedule and household size. For a dedicated household arrangement, we match the chef to the cuisines, experience and responsibilities in your brief.

Premium and Executive household roles are quoted separately according to scope. Your agreed price does not change because of an internal performance assessment; any change to your service and fee is discussed with you first.

Our quality process carries on after a chef has been matched to your home.

We use your feedback, the service history and ongoing performance assessment to understand how each visit is actually going.

We look at areas such as:

• Food quality and presentation
• Professionalism and punctuality
• Cleanliness and kitchen care
• Communication
• Understanding of your preferences
• Consistency from one visit to the next
• Your overall satisfaction

Strong performance is recognised and incentivised across the myCHEF network. That is how the standard holds, and it is why the good chefs stay.

After your first month with myCHEF, long-term households can request specialist chefs for selected days without changing their regular household arrangement.

For example: Japanese / Sushi, Italian, French, Pastry, Indian, BBQ, Special dietary specialists.

Specialist services are priced separately according to the chef and requirement. The advantage is that you do not have to start searching externally every time you want something different.

We do not add a percentage markup to your groceries. You pay the actual grocery cost plus any direct transport or delivery expense. VAT at 5% is shown on the service, not on the supermarket receipt. The additional service cost comes from the chef time allocated to managing the kitchen.

Some weeks require more shopping time than others. The service is therefore priced around an overall time allocation rather than charging you separately every time someone visits a supermarket.

Standard chef plans include cooking for up to 8 people. Having friends or family over occasionally is not a problem, but a bigger table usually needs extra hands. The guide below shows how many.

If you are planning a larger dinner, birthday, reception or event, your account manager can also move that service into our Catering team where appropriate.

• 1 to 8 people: chef only
• 9 to 19 people: +1 assistant
• 20 to 29 people: +2 assistants
• 30 to 39 people: +3 assistants
• 40+: custom staffing plan

4 to 5 hours: AED 350. Full day: AED 550. Additional time: AED 90 per hour. All before 5% VAT.

The calculator adds assistants automatically based on your normal guest count.

Chef by the Day includes ten hours. Any extension to a shorter visit is quoted and agreed before the chef stays on. Assistant time beyond the booked service is AED 90 per hour before 5% VAT.

Short extensions can often be handled by your regular chef when arranged in advance. Longer coverage may require a second chef or rotating team so service quality and working conditions remain sustainable.

Some households need more than a standard chef day: large families, houseguests, executive schedules, holiday periods, frequent entertaining, late-night dining.

myCHEF can build extended kitchen coverage using overlapping chefs and assistants rather than relying on one person for an excessive shift. Coverage can be designed from early morning through late evening, and more extensive arrangements can be created where required. Extended coverage is quoted individually.

Member rates apply to monthly plans of four or more prepaid visits. You can start with one visit at the single rate; no minimum number of days applies to a single booking.

The member rate per visit stays the same at every frequency. More visits change the total, not the rate per visit. Groceries are at actual cost, no markup; zone transport is AED 40–130 per visit, and all service rates are before 5% VAT.

Single visit at the page price. For the member rate, prepay four or more visits in a monthly plan.

Choose the frequency that suits your household. The menu and output need to fit the service you book, and availability is confirmed before payment.

Member plans are prepaid monthly for four or more visits. You choose your start date, preferred service days and expected frequency. Single bookings are confirmed separately at the single rate.

Before confirming, you can see the price per service, typical weekly cost, four-week estimate, number of chef visits and total chef hours. The calculator estimates recurring visits; additional calendar-month visits are quoted separately. Dedicated full-time Managed Household is a separate monthly service with its own agreed schedule.

If your first billing period begins partway through the month, the initial invoice can be based on the services scheduled for that period. Then the normal monthly cycle begins.

Calculator prices are indicative based on the service configuration selected. Once myCHEF confirms chef availability and your household requirements, you receive the final service proposal.

The proposal remains valid for 14 days, unless stated otherwise.

Your calculator result shows the expected service structure and price. Your chef is reserved only after myCHEF confirms availability and your booking is completed.

Long-term service is billed monthly. If you decide to stop the arrangement, your current paid billing period continues as scheduled and the next period is not renewed, subject to the notice terms in your service agreement.

Give us at least 24 hours’ notice and you can move or cancel a scheduled chef service without being charged for it. Moving one depends on chef availability; cancelling one does not. Terms and conditions apply.

Inside 24 hours a service stays chargeable, because the chef’s day has already been held for you. Rescheduled services should normally be used within the same monthly billing period.

Your plan reserves a defined block of chef time around your household. If a four-hour service is completed in three and a half hours because the day’s menu is simpler, the remaining time does not carry forward as account credit.

Where useful, the chef can use available time for preparation, snacks, kitchen organisation or planning within the scope of your service.