A chef your property can offer, without employing one.

Four ways properties use me

• · Guest dinners: you offer it as an add-on at check-in, I cook in your kitchen, your guests never leave the property. The simplest arrangement and the most common.
• · On-site cooking classes: an afternoon activity for guests, particularly valuable on rainy days and for properties competing on experience rather than price.
• · Menu consulting: if you have a kitchen and staff but the food is not doing your rooms justice, I will build menus your team can actually execute.
• · Corporate stays: retreats and incentive groups, where a team-building cooking session usually earns its place in the programme.

Commercial terms

Partner and referral pricing, direct booking with no platform taking a cut, and replies at any hour, day or night, so you can answer a guest the same afternoon, or the same evening. If you would rather present it as your own service than as an outside chef, that works too; several properties do.

Corporate team building is worth calling out separately: for groups based in Florence itself, the city kitchen at Handmade Pasta Florence is usually the better venue, and I will route it there rather than pretending the countryside is more convenient than it is.

Getting started

Email with your property, roughly how many guests you host at a time, and which of the four formats interests you. I reply at any hour, usually within a few, with rates and an honest view on what your guests will actually book: some properties are better served by two set dinners a week than by an à la carte offer nobody uses.