Private Chef & Home Cook
A home cook who plans, shops and cooks around your family's tastes, allergies and schedule — or a private chef for a dinner party, a week of meal prep or a full-time role. Food-hygiene certified, references called, and a trial meal before anything long-term is signed.
Sound familiar?
You don't need the job description written — that's our job. Tell us what a good week looks like on LINE or WhatsApp and a matcher turns it into a role, hours and a rate before you see a single profile.
- Delivery apps four nights a week and nobody's happy about it
- A toddler, a teenager and a partner with three different diets
- A dinner party for eight and you'd like to be at it, not in the kitchen
- A new baby and the freezer needs filling for the first month
- You'd cook if someone else did the planning and the shopping
The CareRova way
The brief
How many people, which meals, which cuisines, allergies and diets, your kitchen and your budget for ingredients. We turn it into a role and a written rate.
Shortlist & trial meal
Two to four chefs with their food-hygiene certificates, references and sample menus. For long-term roles, a paid trial: one dinner cooked in your kitchen.
Weekly menu, your account
The chef proposes a menu each week, you edit it, ingredients are bought on your account or from receipts. Groceries are never marked up.
Cook, clean, repeat
Meals cooked and stored as agreed, the kitchen left cleaner than it was found. Check-in at week one and month one; free replacement within 90 days.
What's included
- Food-hygiene certified, references called, police-checked
- Menu planning around allergies, diets and tastes
- Shopping on your account — ingredients never marked up
- Cooking, plating or storing, kitchen cleaned after
- Trial meal for long-term roles · 90-day replacement
Chef plus nanny, one household
Many families book both. The corporate and relocation desk can also package nanny, chef and housekeeper for a new arrival on one invoice.
See engagement ratesCommon questions
Which cuisines?+
Thai home cooking is the base for most of our chefs; many also cook Western, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern. Halal, vegetarian, vegan, low-sodium and toddler menus are common briefs. Say what you eat in a week and we'll match to it.
How does a dinner party work?+
From ฿5,900 for up to six guests: a menu agreed in advance, the chef arrives two to three hours before, cooks, plates or serves, and leaves the kitchen clean. Ingredients are bought on your account. Add ฿900 per extra guest.
Can they do meal prep once a week?+
Yes — a single weekly visit of four to six hours that fills the fridge with labelled meals is one of our most-booked short-term formats. Daily rate or hourly, whichever is cheaper for the hours.
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Shortlist in 48 hours, a paid trial day before you commit, and a 90-day replacement on long-term placements.