Private chef · Dallas–Fort Worth
Tasting menus cooked in your kitchen and served at your table by Mike the Chef. For anniversaries, proposals, promotions, and the evenings that deserve more than a reservation.
The philosophy
Dinner was how my grandmother said she loved you. I still cook that way, with more courses.
Meet the chef
I learned to cook in Hazlehurst, where food was hospitality and hospitality was everything.
Eight years in the Marine Corps taught me discipline, timing, and how to take care of the people in front of me. Years running kitchens taught me consistency at scale. Now I bring both into your home: a menu written around your story, cooked in your kitchen, plated at your table, and cleared before the candles burn down.
The pantry & the forge
The sauces and rubs from Mike's table, cookware made to his own designs, and the whites he wears on service.
Product names and prices are placeholders. Product photography and the live catalog come from Square once connected.
The journal
Carryover, resting, and what a wireless probe changed about cooking in someone else's kitchen.
Read Hosting4 minLighting, warm plates, and the pacing between courses that makes an evening feel unhurried.
Read Roots8 minHospitality was never about the price of the ingredients. It was about who you were feeding.
ReadPartnerships
Mike works with a small number of brands whose tools he actually cooks with. If your product belongs in a serious kitchen, he'd like to hear from you.
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