Your Private Chef

Specialties

Your Private Chef Melbourne makes fine dining an affordable reality — every day of the week.

Whether it’s gourmet meals delivered to your doorstep, simple home-​style catering, indulgent dinner parties and functions, or even a casual BBQ, Your Private Chef Melbourne can create a menu to perfectly suit your needs and budget.

Whether it’s dinner for two or 2000, Your Private Chef Melbourne has a menu to perfectly suit your needs. We recognise that every function is unique and match the right chef to ensure a perfect food marriage.

We can plan delicious menus to accommodate all dietary needs including gluten-​free, dairy-​free, vegan, vegetarian, specific allergies and many more options.

And we don’t stop at delicious meals. We can provide your personal chef, wait staff, bar staff, a master mixologist, venue stylist and even assist in hiring additional equipment. We have an extensive list of tried and tested preferred suppliers.

Your Private Chef has a menu to impress at breakfast, lunch and dinner, 7 days a week, including public holidays.

History

Established in 2012.

Your Private Chef was created by husband and wife team, internationally acclaimed chef David Kolembus and Marketing Strategist, Ana Kolembus.

Both of Croatian heritage, food was an integral part of growing up for David and Ana, having learnt to cook from a young age.

When they met, David literally swept Ana off her corporate feet and took her yachting — when she worked abroad as his sous chef on International Private Yachts.

It was here that their working relationship was cemented and their individual strengths combined into one joined vision.

When they returned home to begin a family, they also began the family business — Your Private Chef.

Now Ana manages all client relations, bookings, events and marketing for this growing business which has gone from a team of two to over 30 staff since its inception in 2012.

Meet the Business Owner

David K.

Business Owner

David was born in Melbourne to Croatian parents. He spent much of his childhood cooking with his grandmother and helping his grandfather with homemade small goods he produced for the family. It was in these early years that a love of food and fine produce emerged.

David began his work as a head chef in some of Melbourne’s greatest Italian restaurants developing a deep passion for Mediterranean cuisine. David then headed to the ski slope resorts as head chef before working on yachts in far north Queensland. Yet his greatest influence came from his 10 years spent as an international private yacht chef.

This decade allowed David to experience many interesting places around the world, try different cuisines and have the opportunity to work with some of the finest produce the world has to offer.