Private Chef Hire · Villas & Airbnb Across Bali
Full-day staff from IDR 2,700,000++ a day (IDR 3,267,000 all-in service fee)
Spend your villa stay enjoying the meals you want, without organizing the shopping or cooking. Choose the meal plan that fits your days. Your chef team prepares your meals and handles the agreed service and cleanup, with groceries billed separately at cost and supported by receipts.
One lunch, dinner or party is Catering Bali (food included). Intimate dinners for two → romantic villa dinner.
Fixed quote before any deposit · Chef + assistant on every booking · Reply within 1 hour
HACCP-trained chefs
Food safety on every booking
Same-day WhatsApp
Confirmation within the hour
50% deposit only
Balance due before event
Full cleanup
We pack up and leave
Prices
Stay chef starts at a full day of staff — one professional chef plus a dedicated assistant, at your villa. You get three meals; use each as breakfast, lunch or dinner however you want. We inspect the villa and kitchen first so the kitchen meets our standard. We arrive with the team, not a full catering kit. One lunch, dinner or party is catering (food included).
Full day of staff
IDR 2,700,000++
per day
IDR 3,267,000 all-in
A full day of staff. You get three meals; use each as breakfast, lunch or dinner however you want — including three breakfasts.
Three flexible meals — breakfast, lunch or dinner as you choose
Chef + dedicated assistant · ~10 guests
Groceries at cost, receipts given
Best for: Villa stays. We inspect the kitchen first so it meets our standard.
Check full-day availabilityOne meal / one party
Food included
Not a stay-chef booking
One lunch, dinner or party is catering. We bring food and kit. Stay chef is staff only, after a villa and kitchen inspection — that setup is not done for one meal.
One lunch, dinner or party
Groceries included in the catering quote
Best for: a single sitting, not a stay
See cateringTwo sittings
Minimum is three meals
At IDR 2,700,000++ / IDR 3,267,000 all-in
Two meals is not a stay-chef SKU. The minimum is a full day of staff — three flexible meals at the published three-meal rate. Use two of them and keep the third as you like, or assign all three as breakfasts, lunches or dinners.
Three flexible meal credits
Weekly −10% and monthly −20% on this full-day rate only
Best for: any stay that needs the kitchen to our standard
Book the full-day stay chefBook seven days or more and every full-day rate costs 10% less. Twenty-eight days or more and it drops 20%. Discounts apply to the full-day stay-chef rate only — automatically, you do not have to ask.
| Stay chef | 1–6 days | 7+ days (−10%) | 28+ days (−20%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-day stay chefThree flexible meals — breakfast, lunch or dinner as you choose | IDR 2,700,000++IDR 3,267,000 all-in | IDR 2,430,000++IDR 2,940,300 all-in | IDR 2,160,000++IDR 2,613,600 all-in |
All rates are per day and cover one chef plus one dedicated assistant. Per day, ++ (11% government tax + 10% service charge). Groceries billed separately at cost with receipts — not included in the all-in service fee. Weekly −10% and monthly −20% on the full-day rate only. A 50% deposit confirms your dates; the balance is due the day before the event. One lunch, dinner or party is catering, not a stay-chef row.
Groceries are billed separately at cost with every receipt handed over. Before your stay we build a written food estimate from your meal count, cuisine and guests. Typical market-ingredient ranges guests see (before premium items):
Full cost breakdown: private chef cost guide.
Every day rate includes one professional chef plus a dedicated assistant — so service and cleanup can run together and you stay at the table. That pair is built for intimate villa dining: typically couples through tables of about 8 guests on daily hire, with menus planned for how you actually eat.
For larger tables, formal plated service, or party nights, we add waiters before you commit — usually one waiter per 10 guests. Extra staff is quoted in writing (not sprung on the night). Cocktail packages and butlers are available on the same booking thread via in-villa service.
Chef Rotation is reserved for stays of 7 days or longer. On weekly and longer bookings you can change specialist chefs day by day — Japanese, Balinese, Mediterranean, plant-based — at no extra day-rate charge. Each cuisine has a dedicated head chef; when you request a style we check that specialist’s real availability for your dates.
Check 7+ day Chef Rotation availability →Ready for a clear service-fee quote?
Send dates, guest count and villa area. Stay chef is a full day of staff. Reply within 1 hour. Replacement chef within 1 hour or 100% refund for that service · 50% deposit only.
Villa & short-stay dining
Looking for a Bali villa with chef, an Airbnb with chef, or to hire a chef Bali for a few nights? You do not need a long-term rental or a permanent cook on staff. Share your listing link, dates and guest count — we cook in the villa kitchen you already booked.
One celebration dinner, or breakfast + dinner across the week. Meal-count day rates stay published — switch day-parts as your plans change.
We plan load-in, shopping and cleanup around your check-in. No travel fee in Canggu, Seminyak, Kerobokan, Berawa or Pererenan; other areas include a travel fee in your quote before you confirm.
Add waiters, Bali butler service or a mobile cocktail bar for villa parties — one timeline with the chef team.
Guest reviews
560+ events · 12,000+ guests · 500+ villa bookings — outcome-led feedback, not generic praise.
Food quality · team
★★★★★
“We had a great meal of babi guling at our villa from the team. The staff were very helpful and friendly and all of our team enjoyed the food!”
Reliability · service
★★★★★
“Great service, very professional and reliable. Highly recommend!”
Allergies · rebooking
★★★★★
“The chef worked around two coeliacs and a nut allergy without reducing the ambition of the menu at all. We booked again before we left.”
Published here rather than buried in a quote, because this is where most people get caught out.
Ingredients & sourcing
This is the part people misunderstand, so here it is plainly. Sourcing your food is a job we do for you — planning, markets, suppliers, carrying it — and that work is already paid for in your day rate. What is billed separately is the food itself, at exactly what we paid for it.
You never go to a supermarket, write a list, or carry a bag. Your chef plans each menu, decides what is needed, and does the run before service.
Nothing is bulk-bought and left sitting in a villa fridge for a week. We shop to the menu, on the rhythm the food needs — daily for fish and greens, every second day where it makes sense.
Fish from the coast, produce from the highland markets, specialist and imported items from the suppliers who actually stock them. One shop does not cover a good menu, so we do not pretend it does.
Groceries are billed at cost, no markup. Every receipt is handed over. We do not mark food up, and we do not take a supplier commission — the sourcing work is already covered by your day rate.
Why we do it this way. Most chef services in Bali fold an ingredient budget into the headline price, which means you cannot see what your food actually cost — and you have no way of knowing whether the markup is 10% or 40%. We separate the two so the day rate is honest and the food is at cost. What your groceries come to depends entirely on the menu you choose, so we build the estimate with you before your stay rather than publishing a number that would not apply to you.
Our chefs
Most agencies send whoever is available. We do not. Each cuisine has its own head chef who has cooked it for years — so if you want Japanese on Tuesday and Balinese on Wednesday, you get the person who actually specialises in each one.
That's Chef Rotation — included at no extra charge on any booking of 7 days or longer. You're not locked into one chef or one cuisine for the whole stay; request a different specialist for any day, decided day by day as you go.
The six below are our head chefs. Each one runs their own brigade, and behind them sits a team of 50+ professional chefs — sous chefs, commis, pastry and kitchen staff trained to the same standard. Whoever cooks in your villa is working to a head chef’s recipes and a head chef’s standard, not improvising on their own.
Italian & Mediterranean
Executive Chef & Founder
Fine-dining trained in Milan. Hand-rolled pasta, whole grilled fish, and the technique the rest of the team is trained on.
Tagliatelle al tartufo · Branzino with salsa verde · Tiramisu
Meet Adriano →
Japanese & Seafood
Head Chef — Seafood & Japanese
Japanese knife technique applied to what came off the boat that morning. Sashimi, robata grilling, and clean broths.
Sashimi selection · Robata-grilled fish · Miso-glazed aubergine
Meet Ketut →
Indonesian & Balinese
Head Chef — Balinese & Asian Fusion
Gianyar-born, raised in ceremonial cooking. Real Balinese food — the slow-cooked, spice-paste kind, not the hotel version.
Bebek betutu · Lawar with coconut · Nasi goreng kampung
Meet Ni →
BBQ & Open Flame
Head Chef — BBQ & Grill
Decades around charcoal in Jimbaran. Wagyu, lobster, whole fish and satay, cooked poolside while everyone watches.
Wagyu brisket · Jimbaran-style whole fish · Lamb ribs with sambal matah
Meet Bayu →
Plant-Based & Wellness
Wellness & Retreat Chef
Vegan, raw and Ayurvedic menus built for retreats and long stays — food that supports a programme rather than fighting it.
Raw cashew cheese plates · Ayurvedic kitchari · Cold-pressed juice pairings
Meet Sari →
Pastry & Desserts
Head Pastry Chef
Birthday cakes, plated desserts and petit fours made in-house. The reason our dinners do not end on a fruit platter.
Celebration cakes · Plated desserts · Petit fours
Meet Wayan →50+
Professional chefs on the team
6
Head chefs, each leading their own brigade
1–2
Support chefs on every booking, minimum
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One WhatsApp message. How many people, which area of Bali, how long you are staying. We reply within one hour.
02
A stay chef needs a villa inspection and a full kitchen walkthrough to our standard. That setup is not done for one meal — one lunch, dinner or party is catering.
03
You buy a full day of staff. Use each of the three meals as breakfast, lunch or dinner however you want — including three breakfasts.
04
We arrive with the team, not a full catering kit. Groceries at cost with receipts. Kitchen spotless after every meal.
Fixed quote before any deposit · Reply within 1 hour · Peak Jul–Aug & Christmas/NY often 2–4 weeks ahead
One dinner for two is catering, not a stay-chef booking. Stay chef is a full day of staff at IDR 2,700,000++ plus groceries — you are paying for the villa kitchen to our standard, the tailored menus, and not having to book a car.
For a group, the maths changes completely. Six people on a full day of staff is IDR 2,700,000++ for the chef team, which is around IDR 450,000 each for the day before food. A single mid-range dinner for six in Seminyak costs more than that, and you still have breakfast and lunch to sort out. By the time you are eight or ten people, a chef is comfortably cheaper than eating out and considerably less hassle.
Marketplace and freelance listings are often priced per person for one meal with a single cook. Our stay-chef rate is a different product: a chef and an assistant for a full day, with service and cleanup — which is why it is a day rate and not a headcount.
Worked example — family of six, seven days
Full-day stay chef at the weekly rate: IDR 2,430,000++ per day = IDR 17,010,000++ for the week, or IDR 20,582,100 all-in. Groceries on top at cost. That is roughly IDR 490,050 per person per day for the chef team.
We come to you
Main-city travel is free for Canggu, Seminyak, Kerobokan, Berawa and Pererenan. Outside those areas, travel is itemised in your quote before you confirm. Remote areas carry a distance component that we quote before you commit, never after.
The full experience
You are not buying plates. You are buying a five-star restaurant that temporarily moves into your villa — arrival, prep, hospitality, service, atmosphere, and a spotless kitchen when we leave.
01 · Arrival
Chef and assistants in uniform, insulated boxes, flowers, SUV at the gate. Villa staff welcome them in. Guests are not managing logistics — the five-star kitchen is coming to you.
02 · Preparation
Marble counters, mise en place, polished plates, calm focus. No chaos. The same discipline you would expect behind a hotel kitchen door — inside your villa.
03 · Service
Courses placed, wine poured, guests talking to each other — not posing for a photo. Hospitality is the product; the plate is only part of it.
04 · Authority
Menu explained at the table. Guests engaged. Human interaction builds trust more than any food close-up can.
05 · Atmosphere
Infinity pool, horizon light, candles, conversation. The chef works quietly in the background. You bought the evening — not only the food.
06 · Process
Plating, polished cutlery, folded napkins. Restaurant standards without restaurant stress.
07 · Cleanup
Team leaves with their bags. Counters clean, flowers still on the island. One of the strongest reasons families rebook.
replacement within 2 hours or 100% refund for that service · Fixed quote before deposit
Complete villa F&B
Daily private chef hire is the stay backbone. When you need production scale for one night — BBQ, cocktail bar, cooking class — same WhatsApp thread, one team.
Full-day staff minimum — three flexible meals at the published stay rate.
BBQ, buffet, plated and drop-off when one night needs production scale.
Party bar packages from IDR 500K++ per guest — we come to the villa.
One celebration tasting menu with a larger brigade.
Hands-on Balinese or Indonesian lesson one afternoon of your stay.
Open-flame nights and garden parties stacked on the same team.
Send date, guest count and villa area — stay chef is a full day of staff. Fixed quote within 1 hour. replacement chef within 2 hours or 100% refund for that service · 50% deposit only.
Get availability & service-fee quotePricing, groceries, villa kitchens, allergies, kids, deposits and long-stay chef hire — the questions guests ask before booking a private chef in Bali.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Still deciding?
Send your date, guest count and villa area — we reply within 1 hour with a fixed quote.
Book your chef
Full-day staff from IDR 2,700,000++ a day (IDR 3,267,000 all-in service fee) — chef + assistant, three flexible meals, groceries extra at cost with receipts, full cleanup. We reply within one hour with availability and a clear service-fee quote.
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Tell us your dates — we match the head chef to your stay.
Replies within 1 hour · 560+ events · Replacement within 2h or full refund · +62 896-7407-2020
Published rates are ++ — 10% service charge and 11% government tax are added to the listed price. Your quote is always confirmed as a fixed, itemised all-in total before you commit.
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