About me
Private chef, trained in Paris, raised in Italy
One chefI cook weekday dinners built from certified organic ingredients, wherever available, cooked fresh, never frozen, and delivered across Central London (Zones 1 & 2). The same quality I’ve spent years cooking privately, now priced for people who couldn’t otherwise afford a full-time private chef.
Who I am
Who I am
I’m Dari. I cook fresh weekday dinners using certified organic ingredients wherever available, delivered twice a week across London Zones 1 and 2.
Dari’s Dinners was born out of my years as a private chef and a simple idea: to make the quality of food I’ve spent my career cooking privately available to more people.
I grew up in Rome and trained at École Ducasse in Paris before working in professional kitchens and eventually becoming a private chef. Since then, I’ve cooked for families and clients across London, Europe and the US.
Private cheffing is a service you can only provide to one household at a time, and one that relatively few families can afford.
I started thinking about whether I could take what was best about private chef cooking and make it work for more people. Not by turning it into mass produced ready meals, but by cooking for more families from one kitchen.
That idea became Dari’s Dinners.
Certified organic ingredients wherever availableThe Food
I’ve always believed you should be able to eat food that is delicious, nourishing and varied every day without it feeling like “health food”.
My cooking is largely influenced by the food I grew up with in Italy and my training in France, but I cook across many different cuisines. The menu changes every week, shaped by the seasons, the best ingredients available, my latest inspiration and feedback from all of you!
Everything is cooked from scratch and delivered fresh, never frozen. I use certified organic ingredients wherever they’re available and build the menu around seasonal produce and ingredients I’m genuinely excited to cook with.
The aim is simple: really good food that you can eat every day.
Our Ingredients
I want to know where the ingredients I cook with come from.
Where a certified organic version is available, that’s what I buy. Certification means the producer has been independently inspected and has to meet defined standards rather than simply describing something as natural, sustainable or responsibly sourced.
Where certified organic isn’t realistically available, as can be the case with certain fish and store cupboard ingredients, I source the best alternative I can find.
You can see the ingredients, brands and origins used in each dish on our sourcing page. My kitchen itself is not certified organic, which means I don’t describe the finished meals as organic. Instead, I show you what I’ve actually used and where it came from.
One kitchen, many householdsHow Dari’s Dinners Works
Hiring a private chef means paying someone to dedicate their time to cooking for one household. Dari’s Dinners works differently.
I cook from one kitchen for many households. That means I can use the same quality of ingredients and bring the same care to the food while making it available at a very different price from employing a private chef of your own.
Each week, you choose your dinners from the menu. I cook them fresh, portion them individually and deliver them twice a week across London Zones 1 and 2.
Meals are delivered in bagasse containers, which are recyclable, biodegradable and compostable. Our bagasse containers are oven and microwave safe for easy reheating.
Meals are best eaten fresh. Keep refrigerated and enjoy within 3 days of delivery. Away for a few days? Use the pause feature instead of letting a delivery go to waste — you can set your dates in advance.
You get dinner cooked by a private chef, waiting in your fridge when you need it.
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