Chef Demetrius Borges
From R$ 330.00
Feijão tropeiro, frango caipira and leitão à pururuca for the whole clan, prepared in your Morada da Colina home or at the family chácara — while the woman who taught everyone to cook stays at the head of the table.
In the Triângulo Mineiro, the Sunday family almoço is a weekly institution, and a full reunion turns it into a production: tutu de feijão, frango caipira, farm-style rice, three desserts. Traditionally one person — usually the grandmother — carries all of it and misses her own party. A personal chef cooks the same comida de fazenda, from her recipes if you like, while she finally gets served first.
A reunion crowd spans babies to great-grandparents, hearty eaters to low-salt diets, plus the cousin who went vegetarian in college. A chef handles the whole operation — sourcing Triângulo beef and Canastra cheese, scaling recipes for 40, timing everything to land hot at once — and cleans the kitchen afterwards. The family's only job is showing up.
One of Brazil's richest interior cities still has surprisingly few venues that can host a private, unhurried, multigenerational lunch for 30. Your home in Fundinho or Jardim Karaíba — or the family fazenda outside town — hosts it better than any salão, and a personal chef supplies the restaurant-grade kitchen brigade.
Tell us the headcount, the venue — city home, condomínio salão or chácara — the occasion (Sunday almoço, grandma's 90th, a holiday reunion) and the dishes your family considers non-negotiable.
The chef drafts a farm-style menu scaled for your group: the mineiro classics, alternatives for restricted diets, kid-friendly plates and desserts that honor the doce de leite tradition of the region.
On the day, the chef arrives early with everything sourced — Triângulo ranch beef, Canastra cheese, produce from local farms — and runs the kitchen (or the wood stove at the chácara) while the family gathers.
The feast is served the mineiro way: abundant, unhurried, with cerrado coffee and dessert stretching into the afternoon. The chef leaves the kitchen spotless, and nobody's mother spends the reunion at the sink.
Uberlândia sits in the heartland of comida mineira, and family reunions here still revolve around the fazenda table: slow-cooked beans, chicken raised the caipira way, pururuca crackling, and doce de leite made within a few hours' drive. Families scattered between São Paulo, Brasília and Goiânia converge on Uberlândia precisely because it remains the family seat — and the reunion meal is expected to taste like the family's history, not like a hotel buffet.
The city's geography helps. Houses in Fundinho, Lídice and Morada da Colina have the space for a 30-person lunch; newer condomínios around Granja Marileusa offer salões de festa a chef can run end to end; and many families keep a chácara or fazenda just outside town, where a chef cooking on a wood stove turns the reunion into a genuine farm-to-table event — the beef, the cheese and the coffee all come from within hours of the property.
That proximity is Uberlândia's quiet luxury: premium beef from Triângulo ranches, artisan queijo from the Serra da Canastra nearby, cerrado mineiro coffee for the after-lunch round, cachaça artesanal for the welcome drink, and produce straight from local farms via the Mercado Municipal. A personal chef here sources ingredients that even Belo Horizonte restaurants envy.
Local Tip
If the reunion is at a chácara or fazenda, tell the chef what the kitchen offers — many Uberlândia chefs love cooking on the fogão a lenha, and dishes like frango caipira and tutu genuinely taste better on it. Book a site visit or send photos so the chef can plan equipment in advance.
For large family groups, a personal chef in Uberlândia typically costs less per person than taking everyone out — and the food is cooked to your family's taste, in your space, with no closing time.
R$55–R$190 per person (family buffet or churrasco); R$70–R$320 per person (plated dinners)
Get the whole family back to the Triângulo, put the fazenda flavors on the table, and let everyone — including the family cook — enjoy the reunion sitting down.