Personal Chef Specializing in Seasonal Cuisine. Servicing Sonoma, Napa and the Bay Area

Chef Adam is classically trained who’s worked in some of San Francisco Bay Area's finest restaurants including Wente, ÀCôté and Acquerello. Available for private dining and events servicing Sonoma, Napa, and the Bay Area. (Minimum 6 Guests)

Meet Chef Adam

Adam is a Bay Area based Personal Chef

My passion for food began when I was quite young. After devouring cookbooks as a kid and spending the next decade as a server, passion became a profession when I spent a year at Johnson & Wales University studying Culinary Arts. After a stint cooking, serving and bartending in Kentucky and New York, I set off for Paris, where I spent six months immersing myself in French cuisine and wine. Since then, I’ve familiarized myself with French regional specialties as well as Italian cuisine.

Back home in the Bay Area, where I have lived since 2001, I cooked at newly opened À Côté, a small French/ Mediterranean tapas place in the Rockridge section of Oakland. Later on, four years cooking California cuisine at Wente Vineyards Restaurant in Livermore allowed me to work my way up to Acting Restaurant Chef. This restaurant was so wildly popular at the time that I appeared in the East Bay's Diablo Magazine and was even interviewed on KGO. Then it was onto San Francisco, where I worked at Acquerello one of the country’s best northern Italian restaurants under the leadership of Suzette Grisham.

Private Chef
Bay Area, CA

2008 – Present

Acquerello
San Francisco, CA

2006 – 2007

Wente Vineyards
Livermore, CA

2003 – 2006

À Côté
Oakland, CA

2001 – 2003

Wood Fired Prawns, almond romesco, chimichurri

Personal Chef Servicing Sonoma, Napa and the Bay Area

Let me create a personalized dinner for you and your loved ones in the comfort of your own home or vacation rental.

I do the menu, cooking and clean up, giving you back the time to relax and enjoy.

Seasonal Tasting Menu for Minimum of 6 Guests

Small Events, Weddings & Corporate Retreats

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Savory Parmesan Pudding
Gnocchi and Langoustine
King Salmon and Summer Corn Succotash
Duck Ravioli and Braising Liquor
Potato crusted cod with tartare sauce with capers and chili oil.
Clams and Chorizo
Maitake Mushroom
King Salmon with celery root mash, lemon butter sauce and fava beans.
Bacon wrapped pork tenderloin with crispy shallots, tarragon, duck fat mustard sauce.
Smoked and spiced squab lime scented-smoked butternut squash mash with fennel salad and vincotto.
Tempura fried mushrooms with remoulade.
Burrata and Heirloom Tomatoes
Asparagus and Farm Egg
Smoked beet tartare with herbed ricotta and potato chips.
Fried Artichokes
Butter roasted lions mane mushrooms, Calabrian chili and charred scallions.
Spice rubbed grilled blue shrimp, served in herb butter, and polenta.
Strawberry and Basil Pavlova
Raviolo of herbed ricotta and egg yolk with lemon-brown butter asparagus and parm.
Whole Roasted Bass
Roasted Cauliflower with Saffron
Citrus Scented Scallop Ravioli with Champagne Butter Sauce
Lightly Smoked Salmon with grilled asparagus, Calabrian chili oil, and ravigote vinaigrette.
Caramelized sweet onion tart with rosemary and anchovy creme fraiche.
Smoked tomato gazpacho.
Spaghetti with parmesan cream, prosciutto, and black truffles
Seared Globe Artichokes with rosemary aioli.
Kampachi tartare, chili-lime aioli, radish and scallion.
Duck confit, smoked beets, duck jus.
Red wine braised beef short rib.
Hoe Cake with braised duck and tomato jam.
Grilled king Salmon, asparagus, and dill.
Chilled butter glazed radishes with smoked salt, Aleppo pepper, and a dry martini.
Charred corn salad with fried basil, aioli, chili, lime and parm.
Ash Roasted Beets, ravigote, feta, pistachios.
Mulled port wine poached pear, sweet cream, pavlova.
Trout Roe, smoked onion puree, radish, dill.
Burrata and Heirloom Tomatoes
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Fried Globe Artichokes, lemon aioli
Grilled Lobster with chimichurri.

I hope to lend my skills to an endeavor that brings people together, invigorates the senses, and gives the community something to celebrate.

Schedule a Consultation

Let me create a personalized dinner for you and your loved ones in the comfort of your own home or vacation rental. I do the menu, cooking and clean up, giving you back the time to relax and enjoy. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. You can reach me by email adamsmallcooks@gmail.com or by phone at +1(415)606-1268