Cooked in your kitchen
Private chef in Brentwood
Your table in Brentwood, my kitchen for the night: a bespoke menu written for your table, cooked in your home — prep, service, and a spotless kitchen before I leave.
In the borough I’ve cooked a hen do at Merry Lakes in Hutton and a barbecue for forty in Ingatestone. Just beyond it, an 80th birthday at a rented farmhouse near Romford and a family party with canapés in Stapleford Abbotts.
Brentwood is 19 miles by road from the kitchen in Rayleigh.
Photo: Roger Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped · Wikimedia Commons
Who is cooking
A private chef in Brentwood, from a kitchen in Rayleigh
I’m Mike Sutton: 20 years in professional kitchens, nearly a decade running my own restaurant, trained under Gennaro Contaldo and Jamie Oliver. Tipsy Squirrel Events is what I did after I sold the restaurant — the same cooking, brought to your home instead.
The kitchen is in Rayleigh, 19 miles by road from Brentwood, and I cook across Essex, London, the South East and East Anglia. Every menu is written from scratch for your table, with 43 sample menus from six regions of the world to start from, and every dietary in the room handled within the same courses — nobody gets a visibly different plate.
How it works
Tell me the date, the headcount, and the occasion — four fields or a WhatsApp message.
I write the menu around your table and every dietary in the room, and we refine it together.
On the night I arrive early, cook, serve, and leave your kitchen spotless.
The practical bits
From £75 per head, £449 minimum spend
Travel to Brentwood is quoted with the menu, based on the distance from Rayleigh.
Ingredients, menu design, chef and service, equipment and a full clean-down included
Every dietary catered — nobody gets a visibly different plate
From recent tables
In their words
What guests said
“Mike is a great chef to have around – he is friendly, interactive and very willing to share his skills. We hosted a corporate event and he set a pasta making challenge which was a great success.”
“Wow! The Italian menu food was beautiful and exceeded our expectations! The portions are very generous and chef Mike even made us some cocktails! Thank you Chef Mike!”
Questions from Brentwood
Before you book a private chef in Brentwood
How much is a private chef in Brentwood?
From £75 per head with a £449 minimum spend — ingredients, menu design, the chef on the night, the equipment I bring and a full clean-down are all in that figure. Tell me the date, the headcount and the occasion and you will have the exact price the same day.
Do you charge travel to Brentwood?
Travel to Brentwood is quoted with the menu, based on the distance from Rayleigh, and shown as one line on your quote before you commit — nothing is added later.
Can you cook in a holiday rental near Brentwood?
Yes. Most hen do bookings are in rentals. Send a photo of the kitchen when you enquire and I will build the menu around what is actually there — I bring whatever is missing.
Do you cook in my kitchen?
Yes. I arrive early, bring what your kitchen does not have, cook and serve every course, then clean down before I leave. If your hob has two working rings, that is workable — it has been before.
Planning a wedding? See wedding catering in Essex or all my wedding menus and prices.
Christmas? I cook Christmas Day at home and office Christmas parties from £39 a guest.