Chef Demetrius Borges
From R$ 330.00
In the capital of the Triângulo Mineiro, where agribusiness fortunes meet a dining scene that never caught up, a myChef Spanish chef sets up the paella pan in your own kitchen — croquetas, gambas al ajillo and a saffron-gold centerpiece your guests will talk about long after the sangria runs out.
Uberlândia's agribusiness executives entertain constantly, and there are only so many times you can take the same buyer to the same steakhouse. A live paella — the giant pan, the saffron aroma, the crackling socarrat unveiled at the table — is corporate hospitality nobody in the Triângulo Mineiro has seen before. It happens at your home or fazenda, on your schedule, with total privacy for business conversation.
Uberlândia has churrascarias, Japanese counters and Italian cantinas, but authentic Spanish food is essentially absent — the nearest serious paella is a flight or a long drive away. A personal chef closes that gap in one evening, bringing bomba rice, smoked paprika and Iberian technique to Fundinho or Jardim Karaíba instead of you traveling to São Paulo for it.
The Triângulo's food culture is built around the long family table — Sunday almoço, farm weekends, multi-generational birthdays. Spanish cuisine works the same way: tapas passed hand to hand, one enormous paella at the center, dessert torched while everyone watches. It is a new repertoire for a ritual Uberlândia families already love.
The original Valencia recipe — bomba rice, saffron, chicken and vegetables cooked in the wide pan until the socarrat forms — a meat-forward paella that speaks fluently to mineiro tastes while remaining utterly Spanish.
Best for: family Sunday lunches, fazenda weekends
Hand-carved Spanish jamón and manchego served alongside artisan queijo from the nearby Serra da Canastra — a cross-Atlantic pairing your chef assembles as the opening act, proving the Triângulo's own larder belongs on any Iberian table.
Best for: corporate receptions, wine nights
Béchamel-rich ham croquetas fried to a shattering crust and crisp potatoes under spicy brava sauce and house alioli — the tapas-bar classics that disappear fastest at any gathering, made in your kitchen in rolling batches.
Best for: birthday parties, casual entertaining
Prawns flash-cooked in bubbling olive oil with garlic and chili, carried to the table still sizzling with crusty bread for the golden oil — a two-minute spectacle that sets the tone for the whole dinner.
Best for: romantic dinners, starters with impact
Chilled citrus custard under a caramel shell torched at the table — the theatrical Spanish finale, occasionally reimagined by your chef with a drizzle of local doce de leite for a Triângulo signature.
Best for: celebrations, dinner-party endings
A client dinner in Granja Marileusa, a Sunday paella at the family home in Morada da Colina, or a birthday tapas night in Fundinho — share the date, headcount and any dietary needs, and we match you with a Spanish-cuisine specialist.
Your chef proposes a menu sized to your event — tapas sequence, paella style, dessert — and confirms logistics for your kitchen, varanda gourmet or even a fazenda outside the city.
Fresh produce and meats come from the Mercado Municipal de Uberlândia and trusted local suppliers, including premium Triângulo beef where the menu calls for it; saffron, bomba rice, paprika and Spanish olive oil travel in the chef's own kit.
The chef arrives ahead of your guests, cooks everything on site with the paella finished in full view, serves each course, and leaves the kitchen cleaner than they found it.
Uberlândia is one of the wealthiest interior cities in Brazil — agribusiness capital of the Triângulo Mineiro, home to a booming tech corridor around Granja Marileusa, and full of families with the means to eat anything they want. What it lacks is the restaurant infrastructure to match: the dining scene leans heavily on churrasco, comida mineira and mall standards. Spanish cuisine, with its saffron rices and tapas culture, is a genuine blank space here, which makes a personal chef the only realistic way to experience it without leaving MG.
The pairing runs deeper than novelty. Spain's cooking is farm food at heart — rice from the Albufera, cured meats, sturdy stews — and the Triângulo is farm country of the first order. Your chef can carve Spanish jamón next to Canastra cheese, sear Triângulo beef for a tapas of solomillo al whisky, and finish crema catalana with local doce de leite. The Mercado Municipal de Uberlândia supplies the fresh backbone; the chef's imported pantry supplies the soul.
For the executive set, the format is a quiet weapon: client dinners at home in Morada da Colina or at the fazenda carry a warmth no restaurant private room can match, and a paella cooked live gives the evening a centerpiece that does the talking for you.
Local Tip
Hosting at a fazenda or country house outside Uberlândia? Tell the chef at booking — paella over an open flame in the farm kitchen is the single most requested format in the region, and it needs a quick logistics check on gas, water and distances before the date is confirmed.
Uberlândia pricing is friendlier than capital-city rates for the same caliber of service. A family paella lunch anchors the lower band; a full tapas-to-dessert executive dinner with premium jamón and wine pairing reaches the top.
R$90 - R$320 per person
Paella cooked live at your home or fazenda, tapas that keep coming, and a torched crema catalana finale — Spain's most sociable table, delivered to the Triângulo Mineiro.