Home Chef FAQs

Honest to Goodness serves the greater Puget Sound area, including Seattle, Edmonds, Shoreline, Bothell, Lynnwood, Lake Stevens, Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Mercer Island, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish, Woodinville, Renton, Burien, Federal Way, Puyallup, Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Lakewood, University Place, Bonney Lake, Lacey, and Olympia.

We cook in your home since we are a personal, relationship-oriented service that is exclusively designed to your specific needs. We use your dishes and storage containers, and leave a menu card with easy reheating instructions. Your house will smell like the comforts of home-cooking and you will find your refrigerator full of delicious meals!

If you prefer to have prepared meals delivered to you instead of someone cooking in your home, we do that too! Our Eats Amore meal delivery service in the greater Seattle area launched in 2022.

Your chef typically prepares 3 or more dinner-type meals of 4 or more portions per meal in a single cooking session. All meals are freshly prepared to stock your fridge for easy heat-and-eat throughout the upcoming week. The service time is yours to use however will best suit your household, including options to have breakfast, snacks, freezer dishes, or prepped salads at the ready.

Yes, you have the same chef each week making your food. If your primary chef is on vacation or out sick, we will do our best to schedule a substitute chef for that particular week. You also can request to switch to another of our chefs if you want to try a different cooking style.

No, you are not required to be home. We don't mind if you are though, especially with many of us working from home these days. If you aren't home, please provide a key, code, or alarm instructions so you may work or continue other activities without any inconvenience.

Yes! We love your kids and fur babies too! To protect their safety, we kindly request little ones remain out of the immediate cooking area as much as possible. Because we keep our cooking mess to a minimum, your 4-legged babies most likely won't get any floor scores either.

We have a 4-hour minimum for any personal chef service in consideration of our chefs' commuting time and to maintain their consistent income. Weekly chef services range from $380-665 per week plus the cost of groceries for 3-6 meals of 4-6 portions per meal. This includes personalized menu planning, grocery shopping, and onsite meal preparation.

Event services start at $380 plus the cost of groceries. We do not charge for travel time unless your location is an extended distance from our standard service range, in which case we will assess a travel stipend.

Contact us for a pricing estimate specific to your needs.

No contract is required for weekly cooking services.

To book a party chef, we require a $250 non-refundable deposit that is applied to your final event balance. Events larger than 20 guests may require a larger deposit.

For large events or situations with specific logistical needs, we do require a signed contract and retainer toward our services.

When you hire a home chef for your weekly cooking, we commit a specific time slot on our schedule to serve you. Please give us as much advanced notice as possible when you expect to be out of town for any reason. Our chefs appreciate the opportunity to fill that slot with another individual service to maintain their income.