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Celebrate the Formatura at Home — With a Chef, Not a Party Hall

Years of study deserve more than a crowded venue and a generic buffet line. A myChef personal chef builds the graduation dinner around the graduate's own story — their favorite dishes, their people, their home — and serves it like the milestone it is.

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Why Skip the Venue and Bring the Chef Home

In Brazil, a formatura is one of life's biggest milestones — and the industry around it knows. Venue packages and formal graduation dinners are priced accordingly, often charging a small fortune for banquet food nobody remembers and a room shared with three other graduating classes. Hosting at home with a personal chef flips that: the entire budget goes into the food and the people, not the rented ballroom.

A myChef chef designs the menu with the graduate at the center — the dish they lived on during exam season, the cuisine of the place they'll move to for their first job, a dessert plated with their new title on it. Whether it's an elegant seated dinner for 12 or food stations for 40 classmates and family, the chef shops, cooks on site, serves, and cleans up. The parents host; nobody works.

60%

typical savings versus a formal venue dinner

4.8/5

average rating for celebration dinners

10-40

guests, seated or in stations

From Diploma to Dinner in Four Steps

1

Describe the Celebration

In the myChef app, share the date (graduation weeks book up fast), guest count, the format you want — seated dinner, stations, or cocktail-style — and what the graduate loves to eat.

2

Compare Chef Proposals

Chefs send tailored proposals with menu ideas and transparent per-person pricing. Compare portfolios and reviews from other celebration dinners before choosing.

3

Personalize It for the Graduate

Work the menu around their story: favorite dishes, the theme of the degree, a custom dessert with the new title. The chef locks quantities, timing and the final quote with you.

4

Toast While the Chef Handles Dinner

On the night, the chef arrives early, cooks in your kitchen, times the courses around speeches and the toast, and leaves the kitchen clean. The family's only job is to be proud.

Menu Ideas for a Graduation Dinner

The Toast Dinner

Contemporary · 10-18 guests

  • ● Burrata with confit tomatoes and basil oil to open the evening
  • ● Sicilian lemon and shrimp risotto as a bridge course
  • ● Filet mignon in red wine sauce with truffled mashed potatoes
  • ● Custom dessert plated with the graduate's new title — chocolate torte with a 'Dra.' chocolate plaque is a classic

Graduation Stations

Contemporary / Party · 20-40 guests

  • ● Fresh pasta station finished to order in front of guests
  • ● Gourmet mini burgers and finger foods circulating all night
  • ● Grilled skewers with signature sauces
  • ● Sweets table with a brigadeiro trio and the graduation cake as centerpiece

Boteco Chique

Brazilian Bar Food, Elevated · 15-30 guests

  • ● Bolinho de bacalhau and crispy queijo coalho cubes with dipping sauces
  • ● Pastéis of cheese and spiced beef, fried to order
  • ● Escondidinho de carne-seca served in individual portions
  • ● Churrasquinho platters with chimichurri, closing with a brigadeiro trio — classic, pistachio and churros

What's Included

✓

A Menu Around the Graduate

The chef builds the dinner on the graduate's favorite dishes and can theme courses to the degree — a scalpel-precise plating for medicine, a constitution-thick lasagna joke for law. Their party, their food.

✓

Grocery Shopping and Ingredients

The chef sources everything fresh, scaled to your confirmed guest list. The quoted price already includes ingredients.

✓

On-Site Cooking and Plated Service

Courses are cooked in your kitchen and served at the table, or run as live stations for bigger groups.

✓

Toast and Speech Timing

The chef paces the courses around the speeches so the champagne moment lands with dessert, not during the main course.

✓

Custom Graduation Dessert

A signature dessert personalized for the graduate is part of the menu. If you order a cake from a confeitaria instead, the chef handles the presentation.

✓

Full Cleanup

The kitchen and service areas are cleaned and restored before the chef leaves — the morning after graduation is for sleeping in.

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Champagne and Beverages

Drinks aren't included in the standard package. Buy your own espumante, or add a bartender through the app for cocktails.

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Decoration and Balloon Arches

Décor is outside the chef's scope, though many hosts pair a decorator with the chef for a full home-venue effect.

Graduations Celebrated at Home

"When Larissa graduated in medicine, her parents priced the traditional formatura dinner at a venue in Porto Alegre and nearly gave up celebrating beyond the official ball. Instead, they booked a myChef chef for 24 family members at home, asking for a menu of the dishes Larissa ate during six years of residency-prep all-nighters — elevated."

The chef turned her exam-week instant noodles into a fresh pasta course as a joke that made the whole table laugh, and closed with a chocolate torte carrying a white-chocolate 'Dra. Larissa' plaque. It cost less than half the venue quote, and her grandfather's toast happened in the living room where she'd studied.

"A group of eight engineering classmates in Campinas rented a house to celebrate the end of five years of course together, with partners joining — 18 people total. They wanted a party, not a formal dinner, and nobody wanted to spend the night flipping burgers."

Their chef ran a stations format: fresh pasta finished to order, mini burgers, skewers, and a sweets table. The chef kept food coming until 1 AM, the kitchen was clean by 2, and the group's only regret was not discovering the format at the start of the course.

"Sérgio's daughter passed the OAB bar exam, and he organized a surprise dinner for 12 at their apartment in São Paulo while she thought she was coming for a regular Sunday lunch. He needed a chef who could set up quietly and have the first course ready the moment she walked in."

The chef coordinated arrival times with Sérgio by message, had the burrata plated as the door opened, and served a boteco-chique spread of her favorites — bolinho de bacalhau included. She cried before the first bite. The 'advogada' brigadeiros disappeared in minutes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Plan on R$85-R$180 per guest depending on menu and format — stations for a crowd cost less per head than a plated multi-course dinner. A celebration for 20 guests typically runs R$1,800-R$3,600 with all ingredients included, usually far below formal venue packages.
For December and July — Brazil's formatura peaks — book 3-4 weeks ahead, since chefs' weekends fill with celebrations. Off-season, 1-2 weeks is normally enough. Surprise dinners benefit from extra lead time for coordination.
Yes — that's the point of doing it at home. Chefs regularly personalize courses and desserts around the degree, an inside joke, or the graduate's all-time favorites. Share the ideas in the app chat and the chef proposes how to plate them.
From an intimate seated dinner for 10 up to around 40 guests in stations or cocktail format. Above 20-25 guests the chef brings an assistant, which appears in the proposal before you confirm.
You supply the espumante (drinks aren't included), but the chef manages the moment: chilling bottles, timing dessert to follow the speeches, and plating the toast course so the milestone lands exactly right. A bartender can be added through the app if you want cocktails.

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