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A Personal Chef for the Family Reunion — So Everyone Finally Sits at the Same Table

Vó has cooked for this family her whole life. This time, let her take the head of the table while a myChef personal chef prepares the feast — the same dishes she taught everyone to love, served to every generation at once.

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Why Big Families Book a Chef for the Reunion

Every family has the one person who disappears into the kitchen at every gathering — usually the grandmother — and reappears exhausted just as the plates are being cleared. Feeding 15, 25 or 40 relatives across four generations is a full workday: two days of shopping, an oven that never fits everything, and someone always eating standing up. A personal chef takes over the entire operation so the cook of the family becomes a guest of honor.

myChef chefs are used to the specific chaos of reunions: the uncle who only eats meat, the vegan teenager, the toddler with a dairy allergy, and the aunt who will absolutely compare the feijoada to her own. The chef plans one coherent feast that covers all of it — including recreating your family's own recipes if you share them — then shops, cooks, serves buffet-style or family-style, and leaves the kitchen cleaner than it started.

It also solves the logistics no one wants to own. Instead of a spreadsheet of who brings what, one professional arrives with everything, scales portions correctly for a multigenerational crowd, and keeps food coming out hot while the family does what it actually came to do: be together.

40

guests served in a single seating

4.9/5

average rating for family events

1,500+

family gatherings cooked

How a Family Reunion With a Chef Works

1

Tell Us About Your Family

In the myChef app, describe the reunion: headcount by generation, the date, where it happens (home, sítio, condo party room), and the dishes that matter — including any family recipes you want honored.

2

Pick a Chef Who Cooks Your Family's Food

Compare chefs experienced with large groups and regional home cooking — mineira, gaúcha, nordestina, caiçara. Reviews, photos and per-person pricing are on every profile.

3

Build One Menu for Every Generation

Chat with the chef to lock the menu: the crowd-pleasers, the kids' plates, and swaps for allergies or restrictions. The chef confirms quantities and the final quote before you commit.

4

Reunite While the Chef Runs the Kitchen

On the day, the chef arrives hours early, cooks on site, sets up the buffet or serves family-style, keeps dishes replenished, and cleans everything after. Nobody misses the family photo because they were at the stove.

Menu Ideas for a Family Reunion

The Full Feijoada Table

Brazilian · 20-40 guests

  • ● Caldinho de feijão with crispy torresmo to welcome everyone
  • ● Feijoada completa with premium cuts, slow-cooked for hours on site
  • ● White rice, couve à mineira, farofa, orange slices and pork cracklings
  • ● Pudim de leite condensado with fresh coffee to close the afternoon

Grandma's Sunday Lunch, Elevated

Mineira / Regional Brazilian · 15-30 guests

  • ● Fried mandioca, torresmo and garden salad on the table as people arrive
  • ● Frango caipira com quiabo served over creamy angu
  • ● Tutu de feijão, couve refogada and white rice, family-style
  • ● Bolo de fubá cremoso plus doce de leite with queijo minas

Backyard Churrasco for All Ages

Churrasco · 20-40 guests

  • ● Pão de alho, grilled queijo coalho and linguiça toscana off the first batch
  • ● Picanha, maminha and slow ribs carved as they come off the grill
  • ● Vinagrete, farofa, rice and potato salad for the table
  • ● Grilled pineapple with vanilla ice cream, plus a tray of brigadeiros for the kids

What's Included

✓

A Menu Built on Your Family's Food

The chef designs the feast around your family's regional roots and favorite dishes — and can recreate specific family recipes if you share them in advance.

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All Shopping and Ingredients

The chef buys everything, correctly scaled for a big multigenerational group. No spreadsheet of who brings the farofa.

✓

On-Site Cooking for a Crowd

Everything is cooked fresh at your home or sítio. For 25+ guests the chef typically brings an assistant to keep service smooth.

✓

Buffet or Family-Style Service

The chef sets up and manages the buffet, or serves platters to the table — whichever fits your space — and keeps food hot and replenished.

✓

Dietary Coverage for Every Generation

Vegetarian cousins, diabetic grandparents, toddlers with allergies: the chef plans one menu that safely feeds all of them.

✓

Complete Kitchen Cleanup

Pans, dishes, counters and floor — the kitchen is returned spotless while the family lingers over coffee.

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Tables, Chairs and Tableware

Furniture and dinnerware for very large groups are not included, but the chef can point you to trusted rental services.

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Bar and Beverage Service

Drinks are not part of the standard package. You supply the beer and juice, or hire a bartender separately through the app.

Real Family Reunions

"The Almeida family gathers once a year when the São Paulo and Recife branches manage to align holidays — 32 people at the grandparents' house. Every year, Vó Célia cooked for three days straight. For her 80th year, the grandchildren booked a myChef chef and secretly sent him her handwritten recipe notebook."

The chef reproduced her frango com quiabo and her bolo de fubá almost exactly — she inspected the kitchen, corrected the angu once, then sat down. It was the first reunion in decades where she was at the table for the entire meal. The photo of her being served dessert became the family's group chat cover.

"Fifteen cousins spread across three states rented a sítio near Atibaia for a long-weekend reunion, 28 people counting kids. Nobody wanted to spend the Saturday cooking for that crowd, and delivery wasn't realistic on a rural road."

Their chef ran an all-afternoon churrasco with picanha and slow ribs, a separate table of kids' food, and grilled pineapple for dessert. The cousins spent the day in the pool instead of at the grill, and booked the same chef for the following year before he left.

"Marcos hosted his father's 75th birthday reunion for 20 relatives in his apartment in Belo Horizonte. His father is diabetic, two nephews are vegetarian, and his mother-in-law is celiac — planning one menu had defeated the family every previous year."

The chef built a mineiro lunch where every single person could eat the main table: sugar-conscious dessert included, a vegetarian tutu that the meat-eaters also finished, and a gluten-free bolo de fubá. Marcos said the food arguments simply didn't happen for the first time ever.

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From R$ 462.00

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Carol Conti

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From R$ 220.00

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From R$ 440.00

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From R$ 275.00

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From R$ 440.00

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Frequently Asked Questions

myChef chefs routinely handle 15-40 guests. For groups above roughly 25, the chef brings an assistant — this is arranged in the proposal, so you'll see it in the quote before booking.
Expect R$70-R$150 per person depending on the menu — a churrasco or feijoada for a big group sits at the lower end, a multi-course lunch higher. A reunion of 25 people typically lands between R$2,000 and R$3,800, all ingredients included.
Yes, and it's one of the most requested things for reunions. Share the recipes (or even a voice note from the person who makes them) when planning the menu, and the chef will reproduce them — many families do this to give the usual cook a real day off.
That mix is normal for reunions. The chef plans a core menu everyone shares, plus targeted swaps: simpler plates for small kids, a vegetarian main that isn't an afterthought, and sugar-conscious dessert options. List every restriction during booking so quantities are planned right.
Yes. Chefs regularly cook at sítios and rentals — they confirm what the kitchen has in advance and bring portable burners, grills or extra gas if needed. Just share photos of the kitchen when you book.

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