Your Private Household Chef in Sydney

Personalised weekly in-home cooking for private families, executives and established Sydney households—from one weekly visit to ongoing multi-day support.

Custom menus. Premium ingredients. Complete in-home preparation and kitchen clean-down.

A weekly food service built around your household

Chef Michele provides personalised in-home cooking shaped around your household schedule, preferred ingredients, dietary requirements and family routine.

Each engagement can include one weekly cooking session or regular support across several days. Menus may include breakfasts, lunches, dinners, children’s meals, snacks and family-style dishes.

The service is designed to remove the planning, preparation and organisation of weekly meals while maintaining the quality and personal attention of an experienced private chef.

For the way your household lives

A private chef for families, executives and business owners, professional athletes and established Sydney households. Weekly family meal preparation can include children’s favourites, dietary or cultural requirements and several cooking sessions each week. Temporary chef cover is also available by arrangement.

Household managers, executive assistants, family offices and relocation specialists can speak directly with Michele to arrange the right level of support.

What Chef Michele manages

• Private household consultation and custom weekly menu planning
• Ingredient sourcing and shopping coordination
• In-home cooking: breakfasts, lunches, dinners and family meals
• Children’s meals and household favourites
• Dietary, cultural and performance-focused requirements
• Premium, organic, free-range and grass-fed ingredient preferences
• Portioning, labelling and organised refrigerator storage
• Coordination with household staff
• Complete kitchen preparation and clean-down
• Ongoing menu review and adjustment

Considered food. Made for your household.

Seasonal dishes, familiar favourites and menus shaped around the people at your table.

From our first conversation to your organised week.

Private consultation

Discuss the household schedule, meal preferences, dietary requirements, ingredient standards and preferred level of weekly support.

Custom weekly menu

Chef Michele prepares a menu based on the household profile and confirms ingredients, quantities and shopping responsibilities.

Cooking in your home

Meals are prepared inside the client’s kitchen and coordinated around the household schedule.

Organised for the week

Meals are portioned, labelled and stored as required, and the kitchen is left clean and organised.

International experience. Personal household service.

Chef Michele Laiso brings more than 25 years of culinary experience across luxury international hotels, Michelin-starred kitchens in London, private yachts, restaurant leadership and established Sydney households.

His operational background also includes leading large culinary and production teams, providing the organisation, consistency and reliability required for ongoing household engagements.

Experienced in serving professional athletes, executives, business leaders and private Sydney households.

Designed to work with your household

Chef Michele can communicate directly with the client or coordinate with household managers, executive assistants, nannies and housekeepers.

Menus, shopping responsibilities, cooking schedules, storage requirements and family preferences are agreed clearly in advance, allowing the service to integrate naturally into the household routine.

Discretion is part of the service

Every household engagement is managed privately and professionally. Client names, residential details, schedules, dietary information and family routines are never disclosed without express permission.

Selected private-client references may be available at the appropriate stage and subject to client approval.

Premium ingredients, chosen with you.

Menus can accommodate organic fruit and vegetables, free-range poultry, grass-fed meat, premium seafood, extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil and ghee. No seed oils can be requested, alongside gluten-free or dairy-free ingredients, halal-certified meat and other agreed dietary and cultural requirements.

Ingredient standards and availability are agreed with your household. Groceries are separate from the chef’s service fee; ingredients are not automatically organic. Shopping can be arranged by Michele or by your household.

In-home chef services across Sydney

Available across Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, Lower and Upper North Shore, Northern Beaches, Inner West and selected metropolitan areas. Travel, access and parking requirements are confirmed before booking.