(01) Chef · Antibes / Megève
I cook in other people’s kitchens. I’ve done it 612 times.
Nineteen years at the stove, the first eleven in restaurant kitchens, the last eight in yours. I write a menu for every dinner, shop for it that morning, and leave before the coffee gets cold.
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years cooking
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dinners in private homes since 2018
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chalet kitchens in the Alps
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languages in the kitchen
(02) The story
Eleven years in restaurants. Eight in your kitchen.
I grew up above a bakery in Annecy, which is the wrong place to grow up if you want to sleep past four. At nineteen I had my first proper job, at a lakeside hotel restaurant where the head chef kept a list of everything I broke. It ran to two pages by Christmas.
Then eleven years in restaurant kitchens: Lyon, London, then back south, to a forty-cover place in Antibes where I ran a brigade of nine and wrote a new menu every week because the market didn’t care what we’d printed. That’s the habit I kept.
In 2018 a regular asked if I’d cook her sixtieth at home. I said yes before I’d asked how big the oven was. By the end of that summer I’d cooked in fourteen more kitchens, and I gave notice in October.
What hasn’t changed: the menu is written for your guests, not pulled from a folder. I shop the morning of the dinner, I clean as I go, and I’ll tell you on the phone if what you’re asking for isn’t a good idea.
(03) How I work
The brigade, the languages, the diets.
I cook alone up to eleven guests. From twelve, one person joins on the floor; from sixteen, a second cook; from twenty, a second person on the floor. Always the same three people, each named on your quote.
French and English at the stove; Italian well enough to argue with a fishmonger in Ventimiglia; German well enough to take a dinner order in a chalet in Megève.
Vegetarian, vegan, coeliac (separate boards, separate pans), lactose-free, pescatarian, pregnancy-safe, low-FODMAP. Kosher-style and halal sourcing on request, not certified.
CAP Cuisine, Thonon-les-Bains, 2007 · HACCP food hygiene, renewed 2025 · 14 EU allergens, renewed 2025 · insured for cooking in private homes.
(04) Notes from hosts
What the kitchen looked like after.
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