Hire a Private Chef
for One Evening
in Miami
European-trained private chef Marina Staver cooks one multi-course dinner in your home — start to finish.
Share your date and Marina usually replies within a couple of hours.
To hire a private chef for one evening in Miami, you tell Marina Staver your date and guest count, she builds a multi-course menu around your table, and she cooks it from scratch in your kitchen the night of your dinner. There is no membership and no weekly commitment — it is a single booking for one evening. Marina serves private homes and vacation residences across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, with a service fee of $200 per guest and a $1,500 event minimum.
One Evening. Cooked for You, in Your Kitchen.
You have a dinner to host — an anniversary, a milestone, friends you have been meaning to gather. The food should be the kind people remember. But between the day you have and the evening you are picturing sits the cooking: the planning, the sourcing, the hours at the stove, the not being able to sit down at your own table. And underneath the logistics, the quieter worry — that you will spend your own evening serving the dinner instead of sitting at it.
An evening like this is either the one your guests still talk about next week — or the one that quietly fades. The difference is usually who was at the stove.
Marina Staver cooks the evening for you. She has spent more than two decades in private kitchens, building dinners around the people at the table — so the host can host. You are not learning a new system or signing up for anything ongoing. You are handing one evening to a chef who has done this many times before.
Tell us your date.
Share the evening, your guest count, and any dietary needs.
Marina builds the menu.
A multi-course dinner shaped around your table and the season.
She cooks in your kitchen.
Sourced that morning, cooked on-site, plated and served the night of your dinner.
The evening arrives. The aromas are already in the kitchen when your first guests do. You are at the table, not the stove — present for the dinner your guests will still be talking about next week.
What One Evening with Marina Includes
iOne chef, one menu, one evening
Marina cooks your dinner herself. This is a single booking, not a subscription or a weekly plan.
iiA multi-course menu, built for your table
Marina shapes the courses around your guest count, the occasion, and any dietary needs you share at booking.
iiiSourced that morning
Ingredients are bought fresh the day of your dinner, not prepped days ahead or shipped in.
ivCooked from scratch, in your kitchen
Every course is prepared on-site, the night of your event. Nothing is reheated.
vPlated and served
Marina plates each course and serves it through the evening, on your timeline.
viTable and kitchen left clean
We clear the table you dined at and leave the kitchen as we found it — work surfaces and dishware.
About Chef Marina Staver
Chef Marina Staver — European-trained private chef, more than two decades of private kitchen experience for HNW clients across Europe and now South Florida.
Marina cooks every dinner herself, in the client's home, on the client's timeline. Two decades of private kitchens means she has built a single evening many times over — the milestone dinner, the family table, the night that has to go right. Tell her the occasion and the guests; she builds the menu and handles the evening.
Plain numbers, no surprises.
Marina's service fee is $200 per guest, plus the cost of groceries, with a $1,500 event minimum. A single-evening dinner starts at eight guests. For larger gatherings or more formal service, additional staff — a server or bartender — is available as an add-on, and Marina will note this in your quote so there are no surprises.
Hiring a Private Chef for One Evening
Share your date and we will confirm availability, including short-notice events. The sooner you tell us the evening you have in mind, the more likely Marina's calendar is open for it.
One evening includes Marina building a multi-course menu around your table, sourcing ingredients the morning of your dinner, cooking from scratch in your kitchen, and plating and serving each course. It is a single booking — there is no subscription or weekly plan.
Yes. Marina sources every ingredient herself, the morning of your event, so the food is fresh the night it is served. Grocery cost is billed in addition to the $200-per-guest service fee.
Yes. We clear the table you dined at and leave the kitchen as we found it — work surfaces and dishware. You finish the evening with your guests, not in the kitchen.
A single-evening dinner starts at eight guests. The service fee is $200 per guest plus groceries, with a $1,500 event minimum — so eight guests is the practical floor.
Yes. Share every dietary need at booking — vegetarian, gluten-free, nut-free, allergies — and Marina builds the full menu around them. The whole table is planned together, so no guest is served an afterthought.
Yes. For larger gatherings or more formal service, a server or bartender can be added as an add-on, and Marina notes it in your quote so the cost is clear in advance. The base price covers Marina cooking and serving the meal herself.
Marina cooks across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach — in private homes and vacation residences throughout South Florida. She does not ship food or fulfill remotely; every dinner is cooked on-site, the night of your event.
Tell Marina the evening
you have in mind.
Tell Us Your Date Share your date and Marina usually replies within a couple of hours.
Sourced that morning. Cooked that evening. Remembered next week.
We’ll tailor a menu to your preferences