California
at the table.
A London-based private chef for select engagements in Los Angeles — canyon homes, wellness-led private dining and aesthetically considered occasions where what is on the plate is as carefully thought through as everything else in the room.
Considered.
Precisely right.
Los Angeles has its own relationship with food — rooted in the extraordinary produce of Southern California, aware of wellness without being governed by it, and increasingly precise in its expectations of what a private dining experience should actually feel like. The best table in LA is not at a restaurant. It is at home, on the right evening, with food that understands the city.
Andres cooks in LA with a particular lightness — driven by the Santa Monica Farmers Market and the seasonal abundance of California, shaped by Mediterranean instincts and Japanese precision. The food here is luminous rather than heavy: roasted brassicas with preserved lemon, yellowtail crudo with a flavour profile that takes three days to develop, stone fruit at the exact moment of ripeness. Nothing that does not need to be there.
The service is quiet. The kitchen is left immaculate. And what the guests remember is the evening, not the mechanics of it.
Availability
Year-round, with peak season October through April
Locations
Bel Air · Malibu · Pacific Palisades · Los Feliz · Venice · Brentwood
Engagement type
Private residence dining, wellness-led menus, events and household retainers
Services · Los Angeles
Three ways to work
together in Los Angeles.
Private Residence Dining
A dinner for six in a Bel Air canyon home. A Saturday lunch in Malibu with the doors open to the Pacific. A gathering in Venice that should feel effortless and taste like it took all day. Menus built from the Santa Monica Farmers Market and the finest local suppliers. Shopping, preparation, service and clean-down all included.
Wellness-Led & Performance Menus
For clients whose approach to nutrition is as considered as everything else — plant-forward menus that do not compromise on pleasure, performance nutrition built around specific requirements, or simply food that is exceptional and also happens to be exactly right for how you live. Andres holds a Professional Diploma in Sports Nutrition from FC Barcelona, alongside certifications from Stanford University.
Private Events & Household Retainers
From a forty-person pool house dinner in the Hollywood Hills to an ongoing household arrangement for a principal who wants the kitchen to run at a consistent level — Andres works to a brief, to a schedule and to a standard that does not fluctuate. Additional service staff coordinated on request.
Perfect for.
Whatever the occasion calls for in Los Angeles.
Canyon Home Dinners
Bel Air, Laurel Canyon, Mulholland
Malibu & Pacific Palisades
Beachfront and hillside entertaining
Wellness & Performance Nutrition
Plant-forward, precision, no compromise
Industry Entertaining
Awards season, Oscars week, private lunches
Pool House & Outdoor Events
Year-round California entertaining
Ongoing Household Arrangements
Weekly, monthly, or seasonal retainers
The Chef
Trained to the highest standard.
Devoted to yours.
Andres Ribera is a London-based private chef with over 14 years of experience across celebrated kitchens in Europe and the United States. His approach in Los Angeles is rooted in the same principle he applies everywhere: start with the finest produce available and let the food speak for itself.
In California, that means the extraordinary abundance of the Santa Monica Farmers Market — the citrus, the stone fruit, the early strawberries, the heirloom tomatoes that arrive in August. The cooking is light, considered and deeply seasonal. Mediterranean in its instincts, Japanese in its precision, entirely without pretension.
Beyond technique, Andres holds a Professional Diploma in Sports Nutrition from FC Barcelona and certifications in Food and Health and Child Nutrition from Stanford University — a foundation that informs not just what he cooks, but why. For clients in LA whose wellness standards are precise, this depth of knowledge matters.
Andres Ribera
Private Chef · London & International
Questions about hiring a private chef in Los Angeles.
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Let's create something extraordinary.
International engagements are considered case by case, subject to timing, travel logistics and applicable work authorisations.