Chez Ellen Personal Chef Services & Catering

We had a great experience working with Chef Ellen. She is the best! I highly recommend Chez Ellen for people that have food allergies. Ellen only works with a few families at a time and provides very attentive service. I also have hired her for private dinner parties and she accommodated everyone’s tastes!

Chef Ellen is incredible! She is super easy to work with and always eager to please. Her meals have really helped us be able to keep up with healthy meals while dealing with health issues and busy schedules. Highly recommend her services! She is a gem.

As a Realtor I host open houses regularly. Chez Ellen has catered some of those events and I’m always pleased to see guests lingering around the tasty morsels she serves up. Always a wide variety but always complimentary. Not only is she a fabulous chef but but her food presentation is desirable as well. Besides her hors d’oeuvres I’ve also attended parties that she’s catered and one of my faves is her Moroccan lamb. Tender and flavorful, just delicious. Besides being a great chef she is always pleasant to work with, takes an interest in the kind of occasion and guest list and makes great recommendations for menu and wine paring.
I highly recommend her.

..I love Chef Ellen’s great food!.. She is very professional, nice, funny and attentive to detail. I’m honored to have her as my SIB and encourage all of you to hire her services… yummy & healthy eating!

Very professional! Easy to work with and catered to our needs, thanks for a job well done!

I love especially Mediterranean food, and all food Ellen was cooking! I highly recommend her to everyone. Every time she has surprise for my family and for my guests. She did very special dish for my birthday last year, Bison steak. I am so happy I found her! She is true professional, kind hearten and enterprising person

I highly recommend Chez Ellen and staff.
Ellen was the only caterer interviewed who responded enthusiastically to my request for an omelet bar for my daughter’s post-​wedding brunch. The sides were fantastic and the seasonal berry tart was a delicious finishing touch. Our fifty guests were well fed and served.
After serving, the two staff washed and dried all serving pieces and mopped my kitchen.
Ellen’s prices are competitive and fair.
This is the only way to have a party.

I first hired Ellen when I was working full time, with a two-​year-​old and pregnant with my second child, and my husband ruptured his Achilles tendon! Ellen was a life-​saver. We enjoyed her food so much that we continued to use her as a regular personal chef for years (until a temporary relocation). She came to our house every other week and made three meals for the refrigerator and three for the freezer. My kitchen was always cleaner after she left! She made meals that catered to everyone’s taste, plus had a lot of variety. She uses wonderful ingredients and is very health conscious. I’ve also had Ellen cater a number of parties — including large holiday parties for more than 50 people. She is a pleasure to work with, both creative and flexible. I couldn’t recommend her more highly!

I wanted to do something special for my husband’s 40^th birthday and decided to turn my home into a gourmet restaurant. Chef Ellen helped me do that, and the experience was amazing. She came over to our house for consultation and gave us options based on our request. We ended up with one hour of cocktail hour with 3 different appetizers followed by a four course dinner. We had Bison steak, chilled Persian cucumber soup with sesame crusted scallop, etc. It was by far the best «restaurant experience» for us in the Bay area! We invited two other couples, and at the end of the night, we didn’t have to go home! Ellen has a great website and she does weekly meals, cooking parties, and works closely with you. We were very happy with the experience and we HIGHLY recommend Chez Ellen! Thank you Chef Ellen for a very special night!!!’

i wouldn’t dream of hosting a dinner party without the servcies of chef ellen. she is easy to work with when creating a menu and the results are always delicious and beautifully presented. ellen is a total professional who leaves my kitchen spotless at the end of the evening and makes sure to leave some yummy left-​overs in my fridge. i was lucky to find her and recommend her highly.