Seventeen countries, a Chopped kitchen, and a decade of cooking for people whose week has no room for a bad dinner.
Every engagement starts the same way — a call about the room, the guests and the week. The menu comes after that, never before.




The dish is the easy part. Reading the room is the job.
I've cooked for a table of four on a boat with two burners and for three hundred on a tournament lawn. What carries between them isn't a signature dish — it's knowing when the room wants to be impressed and when it wants to be fed.
Allergies, the season, what's landing at the market that morning, and what the group actually wants to eat at 9pm. Below is a spring four-course as it was served in Miami — yours will not look like it.
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Outside these, I quote travel and sourcing separately and it's rarely the obstacle people expect.

Trained in restaurant kitchens, made his name in private ones. Competed on Food Network's Chopped in season [number], and has spent the years since cooking in places without a walk-in, a second oven, or a margin for error.
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Dates, city, headcount and the reason for the room. Corporate enquiries get a full proposal — menu, staffing, pricing, insurance — inside two business days.