Private dining

Paris — Available worldwide

Food worth gathering around.

A private chef for dinners, celebrations and brand events. Seasonal menus, cooked and served at your table.

A long dining table laid with flowers and candles at dusk

Now booking seasonal tables

01 — Approach

Seasonal menus, intimate tables and food designed around the people sharing it.

I cook for six, sixteen or sixty — always in your space, always from what the market has on the day. No set menu until we’ve talked.

02 — Experiences

01

6 – 14 guests

Private Dinner

A long table in your home, a menu written around your guests. I shop, cook, serve and leave the kitchen as I found it.

Friends sharing dinner around a candlelit table

01

6 – 14 guests

Private Dinner

A long table in your home, a menu written around your guests. I shop, cook, serve and leave the kitchen as I found it.

Friends sharing dinner around a candlelit table

01

6 – 14 guests

Private Dinner

A long table in your home, a menu written around your guests. I shop, cook, serve and leave the kitchen as I found it.

Friends sharing dinner around a candlelit table

02

15 – 40 guests

Celebrations

Birthdays, weddings, quiet anniversaries. Long tables, shared plates and a dessert worth the wait.

Elegant table setting with a floral centrepiece

02

15 – 40 guests

Celebrations

Birthdays, weddings, quiet anniversaries. Long tables, shared plates and a dessert worth the wait.

Elegant table setting with a floral centrepiece

02

15 – 40 guests

Celebrations

Birthdays, weddings, quiet anniversaries. Long tables, shared plates and a dessert worth the wait.

Elegant table setting with a floral centrepiece

03

40 – 200 guests

Brand & Editorial Events

Launches, shoots and press dinners. Food that photographs well and tastes better than it looks.

Tomato and herb salad on a wooden plate

03

40 – 200 guests

Brand & Editorial Events

Launches, shoots and press dinners. Food that photographs well and tastes better than it looks.

Tomato and herb salad on a wooden plate

03

40 – 200 guests

Brand & Editorial Events

Launches, shoots and press dinners. Food that photographs well and tastes better than it looks.

Tomato and herb salad on a wooden plate
Roast duck with beetroot and blackberry
Roast duck with beetroot and blackberry
Roast duck with beetroot and blackberry

03 — Featured menu

The Autumn Menu

First

Burnt leek

Hazelnut · brown butter

Second

Sea bass

Fennel · citrus

Main

Duck

Beetroot · blackberry

To finish

Fig

Crème fraîche · olive oil

Five courses · € 140 per guest

04 — Notes from the table

Fire, salt, patience.

Everything is prepped in the morning, finished at your table and cleared before the last glass is empty.

Hands shaping dough on a floured surface

Bread is baked the morning of.

A white ceramic plate beside a fork and knife

Plates, linen and candles travel with me.

Olives on a spoon over a dark bowl

Olives, oil, salt.

Olives on a spoon over a dark bowl

Olives, oil, salt.

A market stall of fresh vegetables

Tuesday market, Marché d’Aligre.

Hands slicing fresh parsley

Herbs, cut to order.

05 — The chef

Cooking for people, not tables.

I’m Noémie Laurent. I trained in Lyon, spent ten years in restaurant kitchens, and now cook only for rooms I can see across. My food is simple on the plate and careful behind it: what’s in season, what’s grown nearby, what you actually like to eat.

Chef Noémie Laurent preparing a plate

Events, of every size

Dinner for eight.
A launch for eighty.
Everything starts with the menu.

From a tasting menu for the family to canapés for a product launch — tell me the date and the numbers, I’ll bring the rest.

06 — Kind words

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Eight of us around one table, and nobody looked at a phone once. It was the best meal of the year, in our own dining room.

Hélène & Marc — 40th birthday dinner, Lyon

07 — Say hello

Let’s make something worth sitting down for.

Tell us the date, the place and the people. We’ll write the menu from there.

07 — Say hello

Let’s make something worth sitting down for.

Tell us the date, the place and the people. We’ll write the menu from there.

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