Private chef concierge
Private Chef for Your Split Villa
The market at seven, your terrace at eight. One chef matched to your villa kitchen and your table — not a scroll through forty anonymous menus — with groceries, service, and cleanup quietly handled.
- One chef, matched to you
- Groceries handled
- Split, Podstrana, Kaštela, Trogir
- Single dinners to half-board
In-villa service
Match the villa, kitchen, group size, menu style, and dietary notes before promising a private dinner or wellness add-on.
Overview
One right chef beats forty menus
The chef marketplaces will show you endless profiles and leave you to guess who actually fits your kitchen, your group, and your occasion. We work the other way around — you describe the table you want, and we match one chef we trust to it, with the menu, groceries, and service agreed before anyone confirms.
Access Adriatic is a private concierge for the Split–Hvar corridor that arranges private chefs for villas across Split, Podstrana, Kaštela, and Trogir: welcome dinners, celebration meals, peka nights, and multi-night half-board, with one chef matched to your kitchen and group rather than a marketplace scroll. Groceries, service, and cleanup are part of the plan, and the all-in price is confirmed before you book.
How much does a private chef in Split cost?
For most local chefs, a multi-course villa dinner lands around €80–150 per person with menu planning and groceries included; relaxed family-style meals run below that band and premium tasting menus above it. Two structural details matter more than the headline number: small groups usually meet a minimum spend, and multi-night arrangements price meaningfully better per evening than one-off dinners.
| Format | Typical shape | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome dinner | 3–4 courses on arrival night | The most-booked single meal — reserve before you fly |
| Celebration dinner | Multi-course, paced service, wine matched | Service assistant joins for tables of 8+ |
| Peka night | Slow-cooked lamb or octopus under the bell | Needs the right equipment — send a photo of the setup |
| Multi-night / half-board | Breakfast + dinner across the stay | Best per-night value; books out first in peak season |
| Event dinner | Larger table, staffed service | Flows into our groups and events planning |
Planning figures, not quotes — every option we send carries its exact all-in price and inclusion list for your date.
What does the evening look like?
The chef shops the market that morning, arrives an hour or two ahead, cooks in your kitchen, serves at your table’s pace, and leaves the kitchen cleaner than it started. The difference from a restaurant is not just the terrace — it is that the menu was written for the people at this table: the shellfish allergy designed around, the kids fed at six, the birthday course timed to the sunset rather than the kitchen’s convenience.
Why matching beats browsing
Split has more private chefs than ever — which is precisely the problem the marketplaces hand back to you. Forty profiles tell you nothing about who shines with children underfoot, who can carry a fifty-guest villa party, or who improvises calmly when the villa’s “fully equipped kitchen” turns out to be two hobs and a prayer. We place one chef we would book for our own family, and stand behind the match. If your stay is on the island instead, the same service runs through our private chef for Hvar villas.
A chef dinner also pairs naturally with the rest of a Split week — a wine day from Split with the same bottles reappearing at dinner, or a boat day that ends with the table already set. For dinners that grow into full celebrations, start at groups and events, and for how booking works end to end, the booking guide walks through it.
Matched to your villa kitchen, not picked from a list
Groceries, service staff, and cleanup included in the plan
Welcome dinners, celebration meals, peka nights, half-board weeks
What can be arranged
Private chef and in-villa services matched to the stay
These are request categories, not fixed packages. Final options depend on chef or provider availability, villa setup, date, group size, and exact inclusions.
Welcome dinner
Land, swim, sit down to dinner on the terrace — the first-night meal that starts the holiday without anyone finding a supermarket first.
Single celebration dinner
A birthday, anniversary, or just the good table of the week — multi-course, paced to the evening, with wine matched from local cellars on request.
Peka night
Lamb or octopus slow-cooked under the iron bell, where the villa setup allows it — the meal guests still talk about in December.
Multi-night or half-board chef
Breakfast and dinner across the stay with a rotating menu agreed up front — the week where the kitchen simply stops being your problem.
Dalmatian seafood menu
Whatever the morning boats brought in — fish, shellfish, coastal sides, and the chef telling you exactly where it all came from.
Group and event dinners
Larger villa tables with service staff so the evening flows — and for full celebrations, our groups and events planning takes over from here.
Menus and guests
Who private chef planning is for
Good in-villa dining depends on the occasion, kitchen setup, group rhythm, dietary needs, and whether the meal is a relaxed dinner, celebration, or multi-night stay support.
Split-area villa guests
Split town, Žnjan, Podstrana, Kaštela, Trogir, and Čiovo — if the villa has a kitchen and a table, the chef comes to it.
Families and mixed groups
Kids fed early, allergies designed around, grandparents seated out of the wind — the logistics handled in the menu, not improvised at dinner.
Food-led travelers
Guests who came to Dalmatia partly to eat it — local sourcing, market mornings, and menus that read like the region.
Celebration stays
Proposals, milestone birthdays, reunion weeks — dinners built to carry an occasion, with the details kept quiet until they should not be.
How it works
Share the villa, date, group, and food notes once.
Access Adriatic uses those details to request suitable chef, menu, provisioning, or wellness options from vetted local providers.
- Step 1
Tell us about your table
Villa location, dates, group size, the kind of meal you picture, dietary notes, and anything the kitchen has or lacks. Two minutes by form or WhatsApp.
- Step 2
Meet your match
We come back with one or two chefs who genuinely fit — menu direction, what is included, and the full price for each. No forty-profile scroll.
- Step 3
Dinner, handled
Menu agreed, groceries shopped, timing set, kitchen returned spotless. For multi-night stays, the week's menus are agreed before you arrive.
Trust
A concierge match, not an employment claim
Access Adriatic helps coordinate the request with vetted local chefs and providers while keeping pricing, inclusions, groceries, and villa readiness explicit.
Matched, not listed
We are not a marketplace. We know which local chefs cook brilliantly for families, which carry a celebration, and which to trust with a tricky kitchen — that judgment is the service.
Inclusions in writing
Groceries, staff, transport, serviceware, cleanup — every option states what is in and what is not, so the price you accept is the evening you get.
Kitchen-fit first
Split-area villas range from chef's dreams to two hobs and hope. We check the kitchen before promising the menu, and adapt the plan honestly.
Dietary needs taken seriously
Allergies and restrictions go to the chef before menus are drafted — handled in the planning, never discovered at the table.
FAQ
Private chef questions
How much does a private chef in Split cost?
As a planning range, a multi-course villa dinner with most local chefs runs roughly €80–150 per person including menu planning and groceries, with simpler family-style meals below that and premium tasting menus above. Small groups usually meet a minimum spend. Every option we send states exactly what is included before you confirm.
What does a villa chef evening actually look like?
The chef shops that day, arrives one to two hours before dinner, cooks in your villa kitchen, serves course by course at your pace, and leaves the kitchen cleaner than they found it. You do nothing except sit down. For larger tables a service assistant joins so the chef stays at the stove.
Can the chef cook peka at our villa?
If the villa has a peka dome or a suitable open fireplace or grill house, yes — and it is the most memorable meal on this coast, slow-cooked lamb or octopus under the iron bell. It needs equipment confirmation and a longer afternoon, so tell us early and send a photo of the setup.
Can we book a chef for several nights or half-board?
Yes — multi-night and half-board arrangements are common for week-long villa stays around Split, typically breakfast plus dinner with a rotating menu agreed up front. It books out earliest in peak season, and pricing per night improves against single dinners.
How do dietary needs and kids' meals work?
They are handled in the menu design, not at the table. Allergies, intolerances, pregnancies, vegetarian or halal needs, and a separate earlier kids' service are all normal requests — share them in the first message so the chef we match is one who handles them well.
Which areas around Split do chefs cover?
Split town and Žnjan, Podstrana and the riviera south, Kaštela, and Trogir with Čiovo are all standard territory. Remoter villas up the coast usually work too with a transport allowance — send the villa location and we will confirm with the option.
Start the request
Send the villa location, date, group size, and meal style.
Tell us the villa location, dates, group size, the meal or week you have in mind, and any dietary notes. We will reply with a chef match and a clear all-in plan.