Personal & Private Chefs
Chef Erika
Hometown: Mexico
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Potato pancakes, with smoke salmon, caviar and dill cream.
One of my favorite Chef's recipes.
Favorite Sport team: Cowboys.
Favorite mindful motto:
Don't wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated.
Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise you'll run out of time.
What chef experience are you most proud of:
I was able to work for the Tequila Don Julio private Yacht, was two years traveling all over the world ,learning all this cultures and their amazing traditional dishes , cooking , learning and traveling was one of my greatest experiences.
Chef Michael
Hometown: Little Elm, TX
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Anything BBQ
Favorite Sport team: Dallas Cowboys
Favorite mindful motto:
Life's too short not to eat well!
What chef experience are you most proud of:
Being a part of my best friend’s wedding that I catered to.
Chef Tonny
Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
beef curry w/ Ugali (African polenta)
Favorite Sport team: Seahawks
Mindful quote: the beauty of cooking is not in the equipment but in the hands of the cook.
Favorite mindful motto:
the beauty of cooking is not in the equipment but in the hands of the cook.
Experience: everything about my journey in culinary has been a memorable experience one I cannot change.
Chef Karina
Hometown: Dallas TX
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Spicy Chicken Chipotle Penne Pasta
Favorite Sport team: Texas Rangers
Mindful quote: When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a Joy.
What chef experience are you most proud of:
Getting employee of the month at the Restaurant on Mansion on Turtle Creek.
Chef Stafford
Hometown: Denver, Colorado.
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Soul Food/French Cuisines..!
Favorite Sport team: “Super Bowl 50”Champion Denver Broncos!
Favorite mindful motto:
#Take me (you) back Food”…
What chef experience are you most proud of:
This past summer, summer of 2021 one of my favorite cousins re-visited me in Colorado..! It has been 45 years since her first visit..
Long story short our grandmother passed away 2009, and she made the best to us in the world 🌎 Mustard Greens 🥬..!..!
So my cousin knowing I cook all the time.. made request, and what she do that for? I was so super excited to make those greens 🥬…
She said “Boy you finna make me cry 😢, I’m so serious” she said..! She went on to say.. “Boy you made me see my grandmother,” she said I could see mudeas face them greens was so good…!!!
“Boyyy! you took me back then”…
I’m so proud of Myself with that having been said, she bragged to all my kinsfolk…
Chef Brenda
Hometown: Ft Worth Texas
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Chicken Marsala
Favorite Sport team: Dallas Mavericks Basketball Team
Favorite mindful motto:
Stay Focus
What chef experience are you most proud of:
working as a team Chef for the Dallas Wings WNBA Womens Basketball Team in cooking for them after every home game
Chef Haneef
Hometown: Philly, PA
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Cajun Grilled Salmon and Shrimp
Favorite Sport team: Philadelphia Eagles
Favorite mindful motto:
"When you want to succeed, as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful"
What chef experience are you most proud of:
Graduating from a prestigious culinary school
Chef Alex
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Any type of pasta
Favorite Sport team: Cowboys
Favorite mindful motto:
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgement. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
What chef experience are you most proud of:
Catering my own birthday party, it was the first time i ever catered anything and everything turned out perfect!
Chef Joe
Hometown: Austin, TX
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Even though his culinary knowledge falls on a wide range of flavors, Chef Joe tends to revert back to his soul food origins. Mixing up both technical levels of flavor and southern home cooking classics.
Favorite Sport team: Dallas Cowboys
What chef experience are you most proud of:
Chef Joe offers 25 years of diverse culinary expertise. He has trained under three master chefs and two celebrity chefs to include Lorena Garcia from the television show Top Master Chef.
Chef Shane
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
I love making anything with pasta in it
Favorite Sport team: My home team will always be the Texas Longhorns
Favorite mindful motto:
A motto that I live by in the kitchen is "Proper preparation prevents poor performance".
What chef experience are you most proud of:
I’m most proud of the 3 years I spent at Uchi Austin. It is there that my skills as a chef were refined and where I learned the most.
Chef Jonathan
Hometown: Dallas , Texas
Favorite type of dish to prepare:
Cauliflower soup
Favorite Sport team: Cowboys
Favorite mindful motto:
" Nothing is impossible the word itself say's I'm possible"(Audrey Hepburn)
What chef experience are you most proud of:
I love that yum at first taste sound everyone makes when they try something new.