Full Time Culinista Kitchen® chef services are available all over the world. Our roster of chefs are based in New York City as well as upstate, Westchester County, Fairfield County, CT, Northern New Jersey, the Hamptons, the D.C. metro area, Los Angeles, and Aspen, but they are excited to travel. Email q@theculinistas.com and we'll try our best to source a chef for you.

Full Time Chef pricing typically starts around $120,000/yr, depending on a household’s needs. Select markets & specific client needs may be priced higher. We take a consulting fee based off a percentage of the chef’s first year annual salary starting at $120k.

Our goal in sourcing a chef for your household is to find the right chef with the right experience and expertise. We work with our clients to understand their needs, from household size to service style to dietary requirements, and then work with our extensive network of Culinista chefs to find the right match.

Our Culinista chefs have diverse backgrounds, from nutrition certifications to regional specialty experience. They have cooked in some of the world’s best restaurants and have years of private chef experience. Their degrees range from the Culinary Institute of America to Cornell‘s elite hospitality program.