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What I cook

Three things, in the order people ask for them. All of them start the same way — a conversation about who is eating and what the evening is for.

Canapés plated on a wooden table before service

Private dining at your table

A bespoke menu, cooked in your own kitchen, served at your own table.

Dinners at home, from four people to a long table. Birthdays, anniversaries, a night when you would rather not book a restaurant.

What it includes

  • A menu written for you, not chosen from a list
  • Shopping and preparation
  • Cooking in your kitchen on the night
  • Service at the table
  • The kitchen left as it was found

Usually four to five hours, door to door

Marco Genna finishing a paella at an outdoor event

Live cooking for events

Cooking in front of your guests, as part of the evening rather than behind a door.

Company dinners, receptions, celebrations, product launches — anywhere the cooking is meant to be watched.

What it includes

  • Menu built around the format of the event
  • A station set up in the room
  • Cooking and plating in front of guests
  • Talking to people while the food is made

Agreed per event

Marco Genna working a pass in a restaurant kitchen

Restaurant consulting

Menus that a kitchen can actually execute, costed to the last gram.

Restaurants opening, restaurants reopening, and restaurants whose menu has stopped making money.

What it includes

  • À la carte menu, written for the kitchen you have
  • Full food costing, dish by dish
  • Recipes and method sheets the brigade can follow
  • Training on the line
  • Follow-up once the menu is running

Typically three months

Something else?

Cooking classes, a tasting for a small group, a menu for a place that is not a restaurant. Ask — most of what I do started as someone’s odd request.

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