Amaranth Personal Chef Service

San Francisco, United States

4.9

13 reviews

Does not accept credit cards

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Telephone:
+1 415-652-0195
Website:
amaranth-sf.com
Address:
San Francisco, CA 94109
Nob Hill
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.5 mi19
0.7 miBig Bus Tours Stop 7, Civic Center
0.7 miBig Bus Tours Stop 16, Union Square North
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Local time (San Francisco) 6:39 AM Thursday, June 26, 2025

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Description

Specialties

Amaranth specializes in creating delicious, nutritious home-​cooked meals prepared in the client’s kitchen.

History

Established in 2008.

Amaranth Personal Chef Service was established in 2008, after Lisa had graduated from the California Culinary Academy and worked at several restaurants and other food service establishments in San Francisco and Sonoma County.

Meet the Business Owner

Lisa C.

Business Owner

After years in the corporate field, Lisa pursued her high school dream of attending the California Culinary Academy. Since graduating, she has worked for several restaurants, catering companies, etc. in San Francisco and Sonoma County. In 2008, she took a course on self-​employment and started Amaranth Personal Chef Service, the mission of which is to provide professionally prepared home-​cooked meals. Call today to have delicious, nutritious meals, prepared to your specifications in the convenience of your own home.

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13 reviews of Amaranth Personal Chef Service

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Place rating: 5
Chicago, IL
Lisa is amazing. My wife and I were looking for some creative takes on a Paleo diet and Lisa knocked it out of the park. The luxury of having a personal chef like Lisa come in to prepare weekly (or in our case bi-​weekly) meals is 100% worth it if you’re busy and want fresh, HEALTHY, home-​cooked meals rather than eating out all the time. Her ability to flex on dietary restrictions to create something delicious is a true testament to her skill.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Lisa provides a wonderful personal chef service that I’ve been using over the past year.
She’s cooked Paleo-​friendly meals for me nearly every week that are both delicious and healthy. I really appreciate how detail-​oriented she’s been when working with me to come up with a personalized menu that’s perfectly tailored to my tastes.
Thanks for all the lovely meals, Lisa!
Place rating: 5
Alamo, CA
We love Lisa! My wife and I decided to hire Lisa as our personal chef and prepare some gluten free meals for us. Wow she did not disappoint! She whips up 7 – 8 different meals for us to last the entire week and each are delicious. Lisa has now been with us for 6 months and comes every week. The price for this great service is very reasonable as well.
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
Lisa is great! We used her personal chef services for about a year (during a particularly busy time in our lives). It was so great to come home after a long day at work and know that I had delicious food in the fridge and no dishes to clean!!!
She was always creative and very accommodating in what we wanted for the menus. I have recommended her to friends and they have loved her cooking too!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
A professional and personal Chef with a quiet disposition, roars with stunning dishes to help celebrate a birthday dinner party for 10!
Unilocal and others who have given positive feedback did not disappoint. This is the first time I’ve ever hired a Chef and I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but with Chef Lisa’s guidance via email and positive reassurances, the event went out without a hitch.
With her partner, Greg being the most professional, pleasant and seamless server for drinks, both Chef Lisa and Greg made the evening at home an experience worth remembering from all who were present.
Guided by my own idea of a menu, Chef Lisa added suggestions and direction to make the best outcome possible. If you have yet to put together an invite with out getting your hands dirty in the kitchen, let Chef Lisa be your redeemer!
I strongly recommend Lisa for her culinary experience and dining presentation!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Lisa is an amazing Chef that’s been preparing meals for us once a week since this past February. The experience was terrific! Every Monday we’d look forward coming home to a refrigerator stocked full of tasty meals:
— chicken adobo
— thai beef salad
— salmon cakes
— chicken cacciatore
Awesome stuff! Prior to Lisa, we used to go out to eat almost all the time. Not only was that expensive, but going out to eat can take a good chunk out of your night. Having meals available at home turned out to be way more convenient and cost effective.
Highly recommend her!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
My boyfriend and I hired Lisa as a personal chef. We were making the dietary switch over to Paleo, and neither of us being good in the kitchen, we found ourselves eating out a lot. We determined this method to be far easier, and actually cheaper, than what we were doing.
The experience was amazing. She was able to tweak all kinds of dishes for us to meet our dietary restrictions: now wheat, no beans, no soy, no peanuts, no cream or cheese, no rice, etc. It was always great to come home on Monday to a house that smelled of food and a fridge ready for the week.
Some of my favorite things (many tweaked to follow the Paleo diet):
Steaks with almond sauce
Lamb moussaka
Mexican stuffed bell peppers
Korean steak tartar
Sri Lankan Fiery Shrimp
Tuna Poke
(Paleo tweaked) Shepard’s Pie
A variety of awesome fritattas
And lots more, of course.
Keywords: personal chef, Paleo diet, Primal diet, CrossFit,
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Lisa cooked for me once a week for more than a year. I only stopped using her services because my husband decided that he wanted to «find himself» and cook all of his own food, and thereby more fully know his «essence.»
I highly recommend Lisa. She made me dishes that became my absolute favorites, especially those with edamame, and I requested them again and again. Her fee is very reasonable. She came up with a lot of diverse dishes of all types, and had no problem coming up with many, many dishes that were vegetarian, dairy-​free, and free of whatever else I didn’t want to eat. She also encourages feedback and is flexible to respond to requests for different quantities and types of food.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I had the pleasure of working with Lisa at the above mentioned fund raiser and it was quite fun. She knows what she’s doing and her presentation skills are fabulous. I hired to to help me with my annual holiday party and the event went off flawlessly. Unlike other caterers I’ve worked with, she works with your menu and also has some of her own goodies which are yummy. Sometime in spring I’m going to have a sit down party and have her cater the thing.
You can’t go wrong with her.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I had the pleasure of working next to Chef Lisa as a volunteer for a fund raiser event that Lisa was preparing several dishes for. I love to cook and seeing Chef Lisa in action was amazing, she was calm, cool, collected even when there was a grind to get the food out to all the attendee’s. The food looked beautiful, tasted heavenly and I heard nothing but compliments from the guests as tray after tray of hor d’oeuvre’s were brought out.
If you are looking for a professional, friendly and talented chef for personal help in your kitchen or event planning do yourself a favor and call Chef Lisa at Amaranth personal Chef Services.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I had the pleasure of Amaranth catered food at a fundraiser benefit for Sunday Afternoon Fellowship and Holy Family Day Home.
This chef prepared impressively delicious food! And just in a church kitchen! She prepared both savory and sweet dishes — creative but not too weird. The crowd was pleased, and interested in what might be next.
The pace of the food coming out to the crowd was perfect.
The people bringing the food were clearly happy working with this chef.
I will seek her out the next opportunity I have to use her services.
What a delight!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Yum! I used Amaranth for several meals a few weeks back when my husband was out of town all week and I was alone with our little kids. Chef Lisa Cutler was super professional and organized and came up with a great meal plan based on my needs and preferences. She bought the meat at Andronico’s and the rest at Rainbow, and showed up on time with all that she needed to cook up a storm in our kitchen. Within minutes the house smelled heavenly and when she was done a few hours later we had tons of food in neatly labeled containers with instructions for serving and reheating and a spotless kitchen. My favorite dish was the Country Captain Indian chicken – so good! I highly recommend Amaranth and am almost looking forward to another week on my own so I might have a good excuse to use them again.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I know hiring a personal chef seems like a luxury in this economy, but as a busy professional, I rarely have time to cook for myself. Thanks to Lisa, my Frozen-​Dinner/​Can-​of-​Soup days are over.
In fact, by deeply reducing my consumption of take-​out dinners and fast food lunches (especially FiDi «fast food» which can run up to $ 10 – 20 per meal), I have actually saved money.
Amaranth + VacuSealer = Savings.
Do yourself and your family a favor and call Lisa. She can customize the menu to meet your dietary requirements (e.g., less sodium, more fiber, low fat, etc.), she does all the shopping, and she leaves my kitchen so clean it’s like she was never there.
Oh, except for that fabulous «Mom’s home» smell when I get home.
(P.S. as of this posting, I have been a client for 2 years)