PRIVATE CHEF · COLORADO
Dinner, Cooked for the People at Your Table
Chef Andrew D’Aquanni brings the menu, the groceries, the cooking, and the cleanup — to your home, a vacation rental, or wherever the evening is happening, anywhere in Colorado.
Who's Cooking
Meet Chef Andrew
Andrew D’Aquanni has spent twenty-five years cooking for other people’s most important nights — quiet anniversary dinners, rooms full of strangers celebrating a birthday, backcountry trips where dinner is the whole point. What that’s taught him is that a good private dinner isn’t about showing off. It’s about paying attention: to what you like, who’s at the table, and what’s actually good right now.
There’s no set menu to choose from. Every dinner starts as a conversation, becomes a shopping trip, and ends with your kitchen belonging to him for the evening — so by the time you sit down, the only thing left for you to do is enjoy it.
Meet Chef AndrewHow It Works
Built Around Your Evening
Tell Us About Your Evening
Date, guest count, location, and what you’re celebrating — or not celebrating. Some of the best dinners are just a Tuesday.
Build the Menu Together
Andrew proposes a menu based on the season, your guests, and any allergies or dietary needs, then refines it with you until it’s right.
He Takes Over the Kitchen
Andrew shops for the ingredients himself and arrives with what he needs — your kitchen is his for the evening.
You Sit Down. He Handles the Rest.
Cooking, plating, serving, and cleanup are his job. For once, you’re a guest at your own dinner.
Services
What Andrew Cooks For
Each service is a starting point — every event gets built around your guests, your space, and your evening.
Featured Dining Experiences
A Few Ways an Evening Could Go
Starting points, not fixed menus — every one gets built around your guests, your allergies, and what's in season.
4 courses
The Seasonal Dinner
Built around what’s fresh right now.
6–8 courses
Chef’s Tasting
A longer, more ambitious night.
Shared plates
Family-Style Gathering
For a table that likes to pass things around.
Passed + plated
Cocktail Dinner
Passed bites followed by a plated course or two, for parties that mix standing and sitting.
Pricing available on request — see the Contact page for a personalized estimate.
Sample Menu
Plated Dinner — Sample Menu
One example of a full seated dinner. Every menu is rebuilt around your guests, the season, and what you tell us when you inquire.
First Course
- Citrus-Turmeric Poached Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
- Traditional cracked pepper cocktail sauce
Second Course — choice of
- Grilled Caesar Salad, toasted cumin, scratch herbes de Provence croutons
- or Roasted Butternut Squash Bisque, black truffle oil, garlic crunch
- Artisan bread and grass-fed butter
Entrée
- Cast-Iron Seared Beef Tenderloin, burgundy demi-glace
- Lobster tail, Meyer lemon drawn butter or béarnaise
- Charred Brussels sprouts, aged balsamic · asparagus tips · roasted red peppers · golden mashed potatoes
Dessert
- Crème brûlée with a truffled chocolate core
- Local honey whipped cream, mint chiffonade
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and most common allergies can typically be planned around — let us know when you inquire so the menu is built with it in mind from the start.
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A Closer Look
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“Everything about the evening felt effortless — we just showed up to our own dinner party.”
— J.M., Anniversary Dinner · Denver
“He asked what we actually liked to eat instead of handing us a menu. That’s the whole difference.”
— R.K., Birthday Dinner · Vail
“Restaurant-quality food, and we never had to leave the couch.”
— S.T., Vacation Rental · Steamboat Springs
Why a Private Chef
Why Hire a Private Chef
Restaurant-quality food without a reservation, a drive, or a wait.
A menu built around you, not a menu you’re built around.
You spend the evening with your guests, not checking on the oven.
Shopping, cooking, plating, and cleanup are handled — start to finish.
More intimate than a restaurant table, and more flexible than a caterer’s set menu.
FAQ
Good to Know
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Contact / Book
Start Planning Your Dinner
Tell us about your evening and Andrew will follow up personally — usually within a day.