THE TEAM
The Chefs
A small employed core team plus a vetted partner-chef bench. Named profiles publish here as the Cape Town team is confirmed — we don't do stock-photo chefs.
myCHEF Cape Town cooks with a small employed core team for the delivery-critical lines — tasting menus, braais, villa stays — and a vetted partner-chef bench for scale and overflow. Every chef who carries the name, core or bench, is identity-checked, reference-checked and practically assessed before their first event.
How the bench works
myCHEF Cape Town cooks with a small employed core team for the delivery-critical lines — tasting menus, braais, villa stays — and a vetted partner-chef bench for scale and overflow. Every chef who carries the name, core or bench, is identity-checked, reference-checked and practically assessed before their first event.
This hybrid is disclosed, not hidden: your written quote names the chef assigned to your event and the named backup under our backup-chef policy.
Why this page shows placeholders
The Cape Town team is being confirmed now, and this page publishes real names, real photographs and real signature dishes only once they exist. Until then the portraits here are labelled placeholders — the alternative, stock photography with invented biographies, is a trick we have watched erode trust in other markets and we will not repeat it.
When profiles go live, each chef card carries a short real bio, a specialty line and a signature dish, with a direct booking link.
The standard every chef meets
Every chef on a myCHEF event passes the same five-step vetting standard — identity and background check, references, a practical assessment cook-off, food-safety training and ongoing post-event reviews. The full standard is published on our vetting page.
- Identity and background checked
- References checked with past employers
- Practically assessed in a cook-off
- Food-safety trained, with SA food-premises regulation context
- Reviewed after every event
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We update this guide annually — figures re-verified October 2026.
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