Quintessencia

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"Focusing on superb preparation and natural ingredients, Quintessencia creates the most delicious meals. Patricia’s healthy choices taste wonderful."

– Sheila Erdos, New York, NY

FREE PERSONAL CHEF CONSULTATION

Free Personal Chef Consultation Free yourself from the hassle of shopping, cooking, and cleaning. Get a free consultation with a personal chef and determine how to put a personal chef to work for you.


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PERSONAL CHEF SERVICES

Wonderful Meals & More Time to Relax

Quintessencia Personal Chef Services, Private Events, and Health & Nutrition Counseling Whether you are an on-the-go professional too overworked to cook, a busy parent too tired to shop and prepare multiple meals, or a person faced with special dietary requirements, Quintessencia can restore the balance to your life by preparing customized, fresh, delicious meals right in your own kitchen.

Whether you are a family or a person living alone, based on your unique preferences, we can visit your kitchen as frequently as you want, cook for a few hours, and create wonderful, fresh, healthy, homemade meals that you will love.

Putting a Personal Chef to Work for You

Here’s how it works:

  • We meet with you for an in-depth discussion about your requirements, food preferences, or dietary restrictions.
  • Based on your individual needs, we design a personal menu portfolio comprised of healthy and enjoyable meals to excite your taste buds.
  • Based on your customized menus, we create a shopping list and allow you to include any additional items you might need.
  • On the day we are scheduled to cook for you, we can we can shop at the farmers market, butcher shop, seafood market, or wine shop or have food delivered through one of our partners – whatever it takes – to ensure you get the finest, freshest seasonal ingredients from the best sources.
  • We arrive at your home and prepare delicious, preservative-free meals based on countless cultures and flavors.
  • We package and label your personalized meals and provide you with easy, detailed re-heating instructions.
  • We meticulously clean our work area, leaving your kitchen even more spotless than when we arrived.
  • You arrive home to fabulous aromas and a kitchen stocked with healthy and enjoyable gourmet meals that will tantalize all your senses.

Fresh, Unique Cuisine

Quintessencia Cooking Tips

Longer Lasting Herbs

Fresh Herbs When storing herbs and greens in the refrigerator, keep them in a plastic bag along with a piece of slightly moist paper towel. The paper towel maintain the humidity, and your herbs and greens will keep for up to a week – they will be as fresh as when you bought them.

Our cuisine is inspired by cultures and flavors from around the world. Working within the personalized menu profile based on your requirements, sensitivities, and preferences, we prepare a wide variety of dishes for you – we may prepare an Indonesian curry one week and a Italian osso buco the next.

To ensure you get healthy meals with the best flavors, we emphasize high quality, local, sustainably farmed produce. We concentrate on natural, organic ingredients and design our menus to highlight seasonal items for an ever-changing menu that will excite your palate.

More Time to Relax

Quintessencia personal chef services are perfect for busy professionals and families that want more time to relax. Whether you are too busy or tired to shop, cook, and clean, are dealing with a picky toddler or a vegetarian teen, have special dietary requirements, or are just bored of your own recipes, we can help revitalize your mind, body, and spirit by providing carefully tailored, delicious, healthy meals and a unique, unforgettable dining experience.