Do you offer a private chef near me?

If you are in Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard, City Bowl, Southern Suburbs, Constantia or Hout Bay, yes — with travel included. Stellenbosch, Paarl, Somerset West and Franschhoek are covered too, with a published daily travel fee. Message us your area and date for a fixed itemised quote.

How do travel fees work?

Three published zones. Zone 1 — the city, Atlantic Seaboard, Southern Suburbs, Constantia and Hout Bay — has no travel charge. Zone 2 (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Somerset West) adds R300–500 per day. Zone 3 (Franschhoek and beyond) adds R500–800 per day, with staff accommodation after 22:00 finishes.

Will you cook in an area not listed here?

Often, yes. Areas beyond the published zones — Hermanus, the West Coast, further up the N1 — are quoted case by case with travel and, where needed, staff accommodation itemised. Ask on WhatsApp with your date, guests and address and we will answer within the hour.

Is the service the same in every area?

Yes. The same vetted chefs, the same menus, the same fixed itemised quote and the same replacement-or-refund guarantee apply in every zone. The only difference is the published travel line on Zones 2 and 3 quotes.

Plated fine-dining course on a villa terrace table at golden hour in Cape Town

ZONES 1–3 — PUBLISHED TRAVEL FEES

Where We Cook — Cape Town & the Winelands

Fifteen areas, three published travel zones, one standard of cooking. Find yours below.

fromR850ppZones 1–3 — published travel fees

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Fixed itemised quote before you pay a deposit · Reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 SAST.

myCHEF Cape Town serves private chef dinners, villa chef stays and braais across the Atlantic Seaboard, the City Bowl, the Southern Suburbs, Constantia, Hout Bay and the Cape Winelands. Zone 1 travel is included in the from-price; Zones 2 and 3 carry a published daily fee. from R850 pp per person · Min invoice R3,900.

Coverage, in one paragraph

Every area page below carries the same honesty: real local detail, the travel fee in the open, and the same itemised quote before you pay a deposit.

The service itself never changes with the postcode. The same vetted chefs, the same morning-of shopping, the same groceries-at-cost invoicing and the same replacement-or-refund guarantee apply in a Sea Point studio and on a Franschhoek estate alike.

Atlantic Seaboard

The villa coast. Sunset-facing terraces from Mouille Point to Llandudno, with the densest stock of high-end holiday villas in the country. All of it is Zone 1 — no travel charge.

Camps Bay — sunset dinners against the Twelve Apostles
Clifton — wind-sheltered coves, ultra-premium villas
Bantry Bay & Fresnaye — privacy between Sea Point and Clifton
Sea Point — promenade apartments and long stays
Llandudno — the enclave where your villa is the venue

City Bowl & the east side

Heritage Victorian homes, De Waterkant's cobbled cottage lanes and the lock-up-and-go apartments around Green Point and the V&A Waterfront. Smaller tables, shorter distances, same standard. All Zone 1.

City Bowl — Gardens, Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek
De Waterkant — 1760s cottages beside the Bo-Kaap
Green Point & V&A Waterfront — stadium-side and marina living

South — Constantia, Hout Bay, Southern Suburbs

The green side of the mountain. Constantia puts wine estates inside the metro; Hout Bay brings a working fishing harbour; the Southern Suburbs hold the city's largest private gardens. All Zone 1.

Constantia — the in-metro winelands, SA's oldest wine region
Hout Bay & Llandudno — harbour seafood and the no-restaurant enclave
Southern Suburbs — Rondebosch to Bishopscourt estate events

The Cape Winelands

Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl and Somerset West — served from Cape Town with published Zone 2 and Zone 3 travel fees, and a clear staff-accommodation rule for late finishes. Pairing-first menus travel well.

Stellenbosch — the food-and-wine capital, about 50 minutes out
Franschhoek — the gourmet valley, about an hour and a quarter
Paarl — working-farm country, 45–60 minutes
Somerset West & Helderberg — False Bay-side estates, 40–50 minutes

Every service, everywhere we cook

The same three core services run in every area on this page. Travel is the only variable — and it is published.

Private chef dinner (10+ guests)

fromR850pp

Zone 1 travel included · Zones 2–3 quoted as a line item before you commit

Min invoice R3,900

Villa chef — single meal (breakfast or lunch)

fromR4 250per day

Zone 1 travel included · Zones 2–3 quoted as a line item before you commit

Gourmet private braai

fromR650pp

Zone 1 travel included · Zones 2–3 quoted as a line item before you commit

Min 6 guests / R5,500 min invoice

Searching “private chef near me”?

If you are anywhere in the zones above, the answer is yes — and the honest details are on the area page: what the kitchens are like, where we park, what the wind does to a terrace, and what the travel line will be. No swapped-place-name pages here; every area carries its own copy, its own FAQs and its own logistics.

Not sure which zone you fall in? Send the address on WhatsApp. We reply within the hour, 08:00–20:00 SAST, with a fixed itemised quote — menu, groceries at cost, staffing and travel all shown before you pay a deposit.

Travel & fees — published, always.

Three zones, one table, no negotiation theatre. Your itemised quote shows the travel line before you pay anything.

Zone	Areas	Travel fee
Zone 1	City Bowl, Atlantic Seaboard, Southern Suburbs, Constantia, Hout BayNo travel charge — it is part of the from-price.	Included
Zone 2	Stellenbosch, Paarl, Somerset West, HelderbergQuoted per day, added as a line item.	R300–500 per day
Zone 3	Franschhoek and beyondStaff accommodation applies after 22:00 finishes.	R500–800 per day