Chef Fernanda Souza
From R$ 704.00
Skip the hour-plus crawl down Avenida Brasil to Rio's Zona Sul. A personal chef brings the milestone dinner to your home in Jardim Primavera, Campos Elíseos, or a sítio in Xerém — private, personal, and entirely yours.
Duque de Caxias has 866,000 residents, the highest GDP in the Baixada Fluminense, and almost no restaurant worthy of a silver or golden anniversary — and chefs from Rio rarely cross Avenida Brasil to serve the Baixada. A myChef personal chef changes that equation: restaurant-level cooking arrives at your door, whether you live in a Jardim Primavera condominium or a house in Jardim 25 de Agosto.
Many Caxias families trace their roots to the Northeast, and the flavors of the Sunday feira — carne de sol, vatapá, manteiga de garrafa — carry decades of memory. Your chef can recreate the menu from your wedding day, reinterpret the dishes your families served at the original reception, or build a tasting menu around the Nordestino classics that have followed your marriage from the start.
Caxias homes were made for hosting: big kitchens, generous quintais, and extended families that take bodas de prata and bodas de ouro seriously. A personal chef scales from a candlelit dinner for two to a celebration for twenty in the backyard — cooking, serving, and cleaning up while you stay at the table with the people who watched your marriage grow.
How many years are you celebrating? Dinner for two or the whole family? Any dishes with history — from the wedding, from a grandmother's kitchen in the Northeast, from your first years together? These details shape everything that follows.
The chef proposes a personalized menu and sources ingredients where Caxias cooks best: the Feira de Duque de Caxias on Sunday mornings for carne de sol and manteiga de garrafa, the Mercado do Produtor for produce, and trusted fishmongers for the fresh catch.
On the day, your chef arrives two to three hours ahead, takes over the kitchen, and sets the table. Planning a surprise? We coordinate timing with you so your spouse walks in to candles lit and the first course nearly ready.
Courses arrive at an unhurried pace, plated and explained. When the last dessert spoon rests, the chef cleans everything and slips out — leaving you with the rest of the evening and none of the dishes.
In Duque de Caxias, marriage milestones are family events in the fullest Nordestino sense. The city was built by generations of migrants from the Northeast, and their descendants celebrate bodas the way their grandparents did: everyone comes, the table overflows, and the food itself tells the family's story. A personal chef honors that tradition — plating vatapá and carne de sol with fine-dining technique instead of asking the couple to spend their own anniversary at the stove.
Caxias gives an anniversary chef ingredients few cities can match. The Feira de Duque de Caxias — 2.5 kilometers of stalls along Avenida Presidente Vargas every Sunday, the second-largest open-air market in Brazil and registered municipal heritage since 2015 — supplies carne de sol, feijão de corda, beiju, and manteiga de garrafa hours before your dinner. The Mercado Municipal and the new Mercado do Produtor cover everything else.
As for the setting, the city offers more range than outsiders expect: an elegant dinner for two in a Jardim Primavera condominium — the 'Barra da Tijuca da Baixada' — a family feast in a Vinte e Cinco de Agosto home, or a golden-anniversary lunch at a sítio in Xerém or Imbariê, where the air off the Serra dos Órgãos runs cooler and the galinha caipira comes from the neighbor's yard.
Local Tip
If your family keeps a sítio in Xerém or Imbariê, consider hosting the bodas celebration there. Chefs can cook galinha caipira and feijoada on a wood-fired fogão, and the serra breeze makes a long afternoon at the table far more pleasant than the city's industrial-plain heat.
Once you count tolls, fuel, parking, and two hours of round-trip traffic to Rio's Zona Sul, a personal chef in Caxias often costs no more than the night out — and every real goes into the food and the experience, not the commute.
R$110–R$520 per couple (intimate dinner for 2); R$45–R$160 per person (family bodas celebration)
The years you built together in Caxias deserve a celebration in Caxias. Book a personal chef and let the milestone come to your table — no bridge, no tunnel, no traffic.