Emilly
From R$ 220.00
Brazil's interior tech capital hosts clients, investors and visiting executives every week. A personal chef gives you what no restaurant in Iguatemi or Galleria can: a multi-course dinner with total privacy for the conversation that actually matters.
Partnership terms, acquisition talks, a candidate you are courting for a leadership role — these conversations do not belong two tables away from strangers. A chef-hosted dinner at your home in Alphaville, Swiss Park or Nova Campinas, or at a partner's chácara in Sousas, keeps every word inside the room while the food signals that the evening matters.
When headquarters flies in from abroad or a client visits the region's R&D centers, the default move is an exhausting run down the Bandeirantes for a São Paulo restaurant. A personal chef ends that: a contemporary tasting menu built on figo roxo from Valinhos and Holambra produce, or a Nikkei dinner honoring the Tozan colony heritage, delivered minutes from their hotel — memorable precisely because it could only happen in Campinas.
Tech and agribusiness teams are diverse: vegetarians, halal and kosher observers, gluten-free executives, visitors wary of unfamiliar food. Restaurants improvise; a personal chef designs the menu around your guest list from the start, so every person at the table eats a complete, considered meal — and nobody has to ask awkward questions mid-dinner.
Client entertainment, board dinner, team milestone or year-end confraternização — tell us the business context, guest count (6 to 20), venue and any dietary requirements. We match you with a Campinas chef experienced in corporate service.
The chef proposes a multi-course menu calibrated to the occasion — elegant but not ostentatious — with wine pairing suggestions and alternatives for every restriction. You approve everything, including the budget, before a single ingredient is purchased.
The chef arrives early, preps quietly and serves course by course with restaurant-level presentation. Service is timed around your agenda: a pause for a toast, a presentation between courses, or an unhurried conversation over dessert.
After the last course, the chef cleans completely and leaves the venue exactly as found. You stay with your guests to the end — no closing time, no waiting staff hovering, no logistics to manage.
Campinas concentrates an unusual density of corporate decision-makers: R&D leadership at IBM, Dell, HP, Bosch and 3M, deep-tech founders around CIATEC and the Sirius synchrotron, Unicamp spin-off executives and agribusiness owners. All of them entertain — clients, investors, visiting headquarters — yet the city's restaurant scene, solid as it is around Cambuí and the malls, offers little privacy and less distinction for a business dinner that needs to impress.
The chef-hosted format fits how Campinas executives actually live. The spacious houses of Alphaville, Swiss Park and Gramado were made for entertaining at scale; the chácaras of Sousas and Joaquim Egídio add a retreat-like setting twenty minutes from the office; and a well-appointed Cambuí apartment hosts an intimate board dinner beautifully. The chef adapts service to each venue, from plated tasting menus to elegant stations.
December is the strongest season, when companies book confraternizações weeks in advance, followed by November's graduation-and-Matsuri period and June's festa junina menus that visiting foreigners love. Year-round, the promise is the same: a dinner your guests could not have had anywhere else, without anyone driving the Anhanguera at midnight.
Local Tip
Hosting international visitors? Ask your chef for a menu that tells the Campinas story — caipira classics reinterpreted, Nikkei courses from the Tozan heritage and Valinhos figs for dessert. Foreign executives consistently rate a narrated regional menu above any upscale-restaurant outing.
Seated multi-course dinners are priced per person and scale with menu complexity and service needs. Larger standing or station-style confraternizações follow event-catering rates. Corporate invoicing with nota fiscal is standard.
R$100–R$400 per person (seated dinners); R$65–R$230 per person (larger confraternizações, station format)
The relationship-defining dinner does not happen in a crowded restaurant. Book a chef and give your clients and team an evening they will associate with your company for years.