Zest & Maldon places elite private chefs with households that want to live well and delegate the daily work of it. We find and rigorously vet culinary talent, then match the right chef to your home. You reclaim your time, and your family gains meals built on fresh, prime, seasonal ingredients, cooked to a fine dining standard.
Great food begins with great ingredients. Every chef we represent works the way we do, with fresh, prime, seasonal sourcing and real technique. The videos below show the ingredients and the care that go into each dish, and the standard your household can expect at the table.
We manage the entire process, so placing a chef costs you almost none of your time. You meet only the few candidates who are genuinely right for your household.
We draw from a private, continually vetted network of accomplished private and fine dining chefs, never a job board.
Skills, references, background, and above all, food. We taste and evaluate sourcing and technique the way only a working chef can.
We place for fit: your cuisine, your wellness goals, your rhythm, your family, your privacy. The right chef, not merely an available one.
We learn your household: tastes, dietary and wellness needs, schedule, and expectations.
We source and rigorously screen candidates: experience, references, background, and a tasting.
You meet only the strongest matches, and taste their food before you decide.
We handle the details of the offer and stand behind the match with a replacement guarantee.
Zest & Maldon is led by Chef Brandon Silver, who has cooked professionally for more than twenty years. His training runs deep and wide, shaped by time at Noma and Uchi, under Top Chef winner Paul Qui, and within the MML restaurant group. He went on to lead the development of Shore Raw Bar & Grill and served as its Executive Chef. His craft is built around three things: hospitality, wellness, and uncompromising quality.
That background is how we vet. Every chef we represent is evaluated personally, to the standard Brandon holds in his own kitchen, the food you see here. We do not simply read résumés. We taste the food, we know the sourcing, and we protect the way your household eats.
Our placement fee is a percentage of the chef's first year compensation, payable upon a successful placement and backed by our replacement guarantee. We are paid only when we place the right chef in your home.
Full details, timelines, and terms are shared in your confidential consultation.
Every inquiry is read personally, in strict confidence. We'll respond within a few days to arrange your consultation.