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A private chef in Boulder County, Colorado

Set the table.I’ll bring the season.

Tasting evenings, gatherings, and weekly meals — cooked from the season, in your own kitchen.

Boulder · Niwot · Longmont · Lyons · the mountainsAn evening, course by course

The philosophy

Good food isn’t a performance. It’s nourishment, memory, and the season itself — served warm to the people you love.

Four seasons, one table — the menu turns with the calendar.

Three ways to the table

Dinner, the way you need it

Candlelit dinner table set with plated seasonal courses and wine
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The Tasting Evening

Five seasonal courses, cooked in your kitchen and served at your table — for two, or twelve.

  • A menu written after a real conversation
  • Groceries, cooking, service & cleanup handled
  • Optional wine pairings & keepsake menu
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Friends gathered around a long table sharing a family-style feast by candlelight
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Gatherings & Celebrations

Anniversaries, birthdays, rehearsal dinners and retreats — intimate events up to thirty guests.

  • Family-style feasts or plated courses
  • Staff, rentals & timing coordinated
  • Every diet at the table honored
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Glass containers of slow-cooked seasonal meals labeled and ready on a kitchen counter
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Weekly Nourishment

A standing weekly visit: your fridge filled with slow-cooked seasonal meals that reheat beautifully.

  • A rotating menu for your week
  • Broths, grains & roasts — labeled & ready
  • Allergies & little ones accounted for
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In the pantry this month — June

The experience

How an evening unfolds

  1. 01

    The conversation

    It starts with a call, not a form. Twenty minutes, and I can hear the menu.

  2. 02

    A menu, written for you

    Within days, a hand-written menu built on the week’s harvest — refined together.

  3. 03

    The evening itself

    I arrive in the late afternoon with everything. You pour a glass and stay out of the kitchen.

  4. 04

    A kitchen cleaner than I found it

    Last plate cleared, leftovers labeled, kitchen reset. The only evidence: the menu card.

The chef plating a dish at the counter in his warm kitchen
At work in a client’s kitchen — where the best evenings begin.

A note from the chef

The food that brought me back

I spent twenty years in restaurant kitchens — the heat, the speed, the beautiful chaos. Then my health asked me, quite firmly, to slow down.

The food that brought me back was simple and seasonal: vegetables with their dirt still on, broths that took their time, meals eaten at an actual table.

Now I cook that way for other people’s tables. Pull up a stool — the kitchen’s warm.

Sourcing

The people behind the plate

Menus start at the farm stand. Open a name to see the fields, pastures and hives behind this season’s tables:

Rows of lettuces and edible flowers at a small market farm in soft morning lightHeirloom vegetable rows and drying flint corn beside a weathered barn in golden evening lightPeach trees heavy with ripe fruit and wooden crates in a sunlit Palisade orchardCattle grazing open shortgrass prairie under warm late-afternoon lightA small canyon creamery with fresh cheese rounds and milk cans in warm window lightBeehives standing in a wildflower meadow at golden hour with the foothills beyondHygiene, CO

within an hour’s drive — Palisade excepted, for the peaches

  • Rows of lettuces and edible flowers at a small market farm in soft morning light

    Marisol cuts her lettuces at dawn on the morning I cook, so the salad course is hours — not days — from the field. Her edible flowers finish half the plates I serve.

    • lettuces
    • herbs
    • edible flowers

The hour before dinner

What an evening feels like

  1. Four o’clockI arrive quietly, boxes of the season in hand.
  2. FiveStock on the burner, bread warming. The house smells like dinner.
  3. SevenCandles lit, first course down, the conversation forgets the time.
  4. ElevenPlates cleared, leftovers labeled, kitchen gleaming.

Around the table

The house smelled like rosemary and woodsmoke before guests arrived. By the second course, everyone had stopped checking their phones.
M. & J. K. — Boulder — anniversary dinner for six
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Shared with kind permission.

Four seasonal spreads — wine pairings and staging notes included.

The free ebook

The Season at Your Table

A year of dinner parties, gathered into one book. Four seasonal menus — from first-strawberry spring to short-rib winter — each with the wine to pour and the quiet staging notes that make an evening feel effortless. It’s the way I’d cook for my own table, written down for yours.

  • SpringMorels, spring lamb & a rhubarb galette — with a crisp Vouvray to pour.
  • SummerPalisade peaches, grilled trout & stone-fruit tart — chilled rosé alongside.
  • AutumnPorcini risotto, cider-braised pork & pear tart — a nervy red to match.
  • WinterOnion soup, short rib & dark-chocolate pavé — a big Rhône to close the year.

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Packages

Clear numbers, no surprises

Weekly nourishment

The Table

from $325 per weekly visit + groceries

  • 4–5 meals for the household
  • Seasonal rotating menu
  • Fridge labeled & organized
  • Standing weekly day
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Events & celebrations

The Gathering

custom quoted per occasion · up to 30

  • Plated or family-style
  • Service staff coordinated
  • Rentals & timing handled
  • Occasion-built menus
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Starting points — every evening is quoted after one honest conversation.

A gift that gets eaten

Give someone an evening

New parents who haven’t cooked in weeks. An anniversary. A gift evening arrives as a hand-written card — and becomes a dinner they’ll talk about for years.

Arrange a gift evening

Good questions

Asked before every first dinner

Anything else? That’s what the first conversation is for.

  • Two to three weeks is comfortable; summer and December weekends go first.

  • Very little — a working stove, a sink, and counter space. I bring the rest.

  • Always. Every menu is written around the actual people at the table, never adapted after.

  • I’ll write pairings and arrange bottles locally, or build the menu around your cellar.

  • Tasting evenings from $145 a guest; weekly from $325 a visit. One clear number, no surprises.

  • Boulder County is home; for mountain houses a modest travel fee applies, gladly.

The first step

It begins with a conversation

Twenty minutes, no commitment. Tell me about your table, and I’ll tell you exactly how I’d feed it.

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