Private Chef at the Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore season has its own rules. Houses fill from June through Labor Day. Friends and family rotate through. Dinner gets harder, not easier, as the week goes on — the host who cooked Monday night doesn't want to cook Saturday. Chef Matts Culinary Creations works the Shore as a seasonal extension of the New Jersey practice, with most engagements running from May through October across Seven Mile Island, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle, and Long Beach Island.
The work is calibrated to the home, the group, and the trip.
Learn more about our personal chef services.
Check AvailabilityOur Personal Chef Services
Three ways to book Chef Matt — pick the one that fits your week or your occasion.
Vacation Chef
Multi-course dinners and daily cooking for your beach house vacation rental — the ultimate shore luxury.
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Private Dinners
Starting at $125/person — celebrate a birthday, anniversary, or family reunion right in your shore house.
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Bachelorette & Group Weekends
$125/person — shore house dinners for bachelorette parties, family reunions, and friend groups splitting a week at the beach.
Learn MoreWhat to Expect From a Personal Chef at the Jersey Shore
Booking a personal chef at the Jersey Shore is designed to feel effortless from the very first conversation. Chef Matt starts by learning about your household — how many people you're feeding, the dietary preferences and restrictions in your home, the kitchen you're working with, and the kind of experience you want to create. From there, he builds a fully custom menu and confirms every detail in writing before the date so there are no surprises on the day of service.
Every booking includes complete planning, sourcing of fresh seasonal ingredients, in-home cooking, plating or portioning, and a full kitchen cleanup before he leaves. For weekly meal prep clients at the Jersey Shore, that means meals labeled, dated, and stored in your refrigerator or freezer with simple reheating instructions. For private dinner parties, it means a full course-by-course experience served on your own table, with Chef Matt handling pacing, presentation, and clearing throughout the evening.
With more than eighteen years in professional kitchens — including time as an executive chef by age twenty-two and ongoing membership in the United States Personal Chef Association — Chef Matt brings restaurant-level technique into homes throughout the Jersey Shore. The result is food that tastes like a fine-dining experience, served in the comfort of the place you already love most.
Private Chef Services at the Jersey Shore
Most Shore bookings are short-term and event-based — technically personal chef work — though "private chef" is the term clients use, and we use it back. What matters is the structure: menus set in advance, sourcing handled, cooking done on-site in the rental kitchen or the beach house, plating matched to the group, kitchen clean at the end of the night.
Engagement formats run from a single coursed dinner on a Saturday night to a full week of in-home dining across a vacation stay.
Vacation Rental Chef Services
The largest segment. A family or extended group rents a Shore home for a week. The chef comes in for one to four dinners across the stay, sometimes plus a brunch. Menus are calibrated to what the group actually wants — beach house dining doesn't have to mean "beach food."
For a full guide to private chef dinners in beach houses and vacation rentals, see our beach house vacation rental chef service.
Beach House Dinner Parties
A specific evening. Eight to twenty guests in the dining room of a Shore home. Coursed or family-style depending on the night. Service runs from arrival through plating to clean kitchen before departure.
Bachelorette Weekends
A significant share of summer Shore work. Standard structure: welcome dinner Friday, brunch Saturday morning, final dinner Saturday or Sunday. Some weekends add poolside grazing service or a Sunday brunch send-off. The food is handled, the weekend stays the weekend.
Private Brunches
Bridal brunches, post-wedding brunches, family gatherings, casual mid-stay services. Plated, family-style, or station-format depending on the home and guest count. See private brunch chef for service details.
Family Vacation Dining
The classic engagement — a family of eight to twelve renting a Shore home for a week, wanting two or three dinners across the stay so the trip isn't built around restaurant logistics. Menus designed for multi-generational tables.
Jersey Shore Areas Served
Monmouth County
- Red Bank — see private chef in Red Bank
- Rumson, Fair Haven, Little Silver, Shrewsbury
- Deal, Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach
- Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Manasquan, Avon-by-the-Sea — see private chef in Spring Lake & Bay Head
- Colts Neck, Holmdel, Middletown
Ocean County
- Bay Head, Mantoloking, Point Pleasant
- Long Beach Island — see private chef on Long Beach Island
Cape May County
- Avalon — see private chef in Avalon
- Stone Harbor — see private chef in Stone Harbor
- Cape May — see private chef in Cape May
- Ocean City — see private chef in Ocean City
- Sea Isle City, Strathmere
Sample Shore Menus
- Coastal coursed dinner. Crudo to start, peekytoe crab salad, line-caught fluke or fluke crudo, dry-aged ribeye, citrus tart to close.
- Family-style summer. Tomato and burrata, grilled local corn, whole roasted fish or grilled tenderloin, peach galette.
- Bachelorette welcome dinner. Grazing boards on arrival, hand-cut pasta course, grilled mains, dessert station.
- Sunday brunch. Smoked salmon board, frittata station, fresh pastries, mimosa service.
Book a Jersey Shore Private Chef
Request a BookingAreas We Serve
We serve the Jersey Shore from Monmouth County through Ocean County and Cape May County, including Red Bank, Rumson, Long Beach Island, Point Pleasant, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Cape May, and surrounding beach towns.
Local Sourcing & Seasonal Menus
Menus for clients at the Jersey Shore are written around the season and the local market. Chef Matt sources fresh produce, seafood, and proteins from trusted regional purveyors and grocers, then builds each menu around what's actually at peak that week — heirloom tomatoes and stone fruit in late summer, root vegetables and braises in the colder months, and fresh-caught seafood whenever the catch supports it. Every menu is reviewed with you in advance, with full flexibility for allergies, gluten-free or dairy-free needs, vegetarian and pescatarian preferences, kid-friendly versions, and any cultural or religious considerations in your household.
Meet Your Personal Chef
- 18+ years professional kitchen experience
- Executive Chef by age 22
- Academy of Culinary Arts graduate
- USPCA member
- Specialized in dietary-aware cooking
Chef Matt brings restaurant-quality dining directly to your home. Every meal is crafted around your preferences, dietary needs, and lifestyle — sourced with intention and cooked with precision.
Learn More About Chef MattWhat Our Clients Say
"Amazing dinner for ten by Chef Matt in our LBI home. We loved every bite of the meal he prepared for my husband's 60th birthday. There were constant comments from my family 'this is the best I ever had!'"
Gail A.
Long Beach Island, NJ
"We hired Chef Matt for a bachelor party dinner of 10. The meal was excellent — the guys are still talking about it."
D K
Jersey Shore
"Chef Matt provided an amazing buffet for our party. We had 55+ people who were all raving about the delicious food. Matt was very easy to work with."
Dean R.
New Jersey
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