chef Cheryl Beere

Real food.
Real flavor.

Private chef based in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. Cheryl spent thirty years chasing flavor around the world from French kitchens to Vietnamese markets, Mexican street stalls to Google's own table. Now she brings it to yours.

PRIVATE CATERING

Restaurant-quality menus for dinner parties, celebrations, and private events - cooked in your own home or venue. Choose from Cheryl's menus (French, Japanese, Mexican, Pacific, and more), or work with Cheryl to craft your own menu catering to embrace different cuisines and diets.

FOOD STYLING

Camera-ready food for productions, backed by 30 years of professional kitchen experience. Cheryl's most recent credit was food stylist on Netflix's 'East of Eden'.

WEDDINGS AND CELEBRATIONS

Full-service menus for your wedding day and other meaningful gatherings - tailored to your guest list, your venue, and your vision.

WEEKLY BATCH COOKING

Cheryl works with clients with special dietary needs (or those that are just too busy to cook every night) and can put together weekly meals or batch cook multiple meals for your group to enjoy throughout the week.

About Chef Cheryl

Good, clean food beautifully presented and enhancing the natural flavours

Thirty years ago, Cheryl started travelling the world and falling in love with its food. She trained in classic French cuisine, Japanese macrobiotic cooking, and traditional Mexican cuisine - then spent three decades cooking her way across it: running restaurants in Auckland and Raglan, touring as personal chef to international musicians, working as an in-house chef in private homes across America, and leading the vegetarian kitchen at Google's California headquarters.Now back home in New Zealand raising two kids, Cheryl cooks for music festivals, catering companies, and private dinner parties - bringing contemporary healthy cooking and traditional regional dishes from around the world to your table, with an accent on spice and authenticity.

SAMPLE MENUS

From an intimate dinner party to a festival crowd, Cheryl builds a menu around your occasion, your guests, and their tastes. Dietary restrictions welcome. Click on any of the links below to see a selection of suggested courses.

French Dinner

Every course is locally sourced and hand crafted to deliver plates bursting with natural flavors.

  • Bacala mantecato — whipped salt cod with grilled polenta

  • Eggplant and goat cheese caviar on toast points (gf toast)

  • Tomato tarte tartin, thyme lemon crème fraîche, roquette & fennel salad, shaved almonds

  • Roasted bone marrow w parsley salad w fresh baguette

  • Juniper, rosemary and pistachio crusted lamb cutlets, truffle oil mash, brussels sprouts and bacon lardons

  • Artichokes steamed and served w thyme & saffron hollandaise

  • Classic French apple tarte, rosemary cream, lavender ice cream

South Pacific Flavors

Aotearoa produces some of the most outstanding foods of the land and the ocean. This menu embraces the glorious harvests of the whenua and moana.

  • Rewana potato bread w black garlic butter and local smoked oysters

  • Vintage cheddar gougeres, Manuka honey, Tamahere truffle salt

  • Paua fritters with preserved lemon and puha

  • Kumara gnocchi w a brown butter sauce and pickled watercress

  • Horopito rubbed lightly smoked lamb rump with Ohakune carrot purée and kumara croquette and minted peas

  • Seared crispy skin snapper, pikopiko fronds, oyster beignets, horopito lemon sauce

  • Strawberry Lamington — sheep’s yoghurt mousse, pohutukawa honey strawberry and black pepper sorbet

Classes too!

For a vibrant and fun group event

Gather friends, family or colleagues and spend an afternoon learning some of the tricks of the trade. Learn how to prepare amazing sushi, an authentic Morroccan tagine or another dish that is meaningful to your group. Cheryl and her team will craft an educational session followed by enjoying the fruits of your labor.

Real food. Real flavor. Really good.

Let's meet at the table, brimming with flavor and color to create a menu that inspires all of your senses.

accolades

"Everyone thought the food was outstanding... the presentation was brilliant." Liam Hunt

"It honestly made the whole night so special... My friends are still raving about it." Laura Pemberton

"Genuinely the best meal we have ever had." Liam Friel

Contact Cheryl

Feeling peckish? Want to collaborate on a magical menu? Want to book Cheryl for your next dinner party? Just give us some basic details and we will be in touch in no time at all.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for reaching out. We will get back to you within 2 business days at the latest.