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Vic de Valdorf - Personal Chef

Name: Vic de Valdorf - Personal Chef
Address: Cape Town, ZA
Telephone: +27833101371
Price range: ££
Rating: 5

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Vic de Valdorf - Personal Chef

Personal chef at dinners, parties, weekends away and other special events in and around Cape Town. Meals prepared in your home or at a venue of your choosing.
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Personal chef service, whether it's a one off function or a longer term engagement.

03/11/2024

Back behind the boerewors curtain. The mother, whose surprise 50th birthday party we catered for a few months back, arranged a surprise bridal shower for her daughter. Some lovely finger food was served which resulted in this email - "Hi Chef Vic,
Thanks so much! Your food was amazing as always."

06/10/2024

A balmy spring evening's 21st dinner for the birthday girl and a group friends. A new house to cook in, halfway between Victoria and Klood roads. Meant climbing a lot of stairs. Almost 600 of them thanks to inaccurate directions, forgetting things in the car, etc. Who needs gym? A very generous review was also posted on Take a Chef by the host.

30/08/2024

We were asked to prepare a breakfast buffet for a large group of Zimbabweans, most of whom have emigrated to greener pastures. They all gathered in Cape town for a week to pay tribute to the "Matriarchs" 60th birthday. They were a fun crowd and were still blowing up the balloons long after we arrived but eventually got it done. I just like the way it turned out.

04/08/2024

Don't get much work out in the northern suburbs, so it was a pleasant change of scenery to cater for a 50th there recently. Great kitchen and prep area, stunning bar and lounge plus lots of seating around the pool and fireplace, made it easy for us to serve five different tapas to thirty guests. Oh, and just for good measure, we had an oyster station set up as well.

23/06/2024

A mixture of food cultures. Cape Malay butternut soup, dollop of yogurt, toasted pumpkin seeds, butternut crisp with steamed dombolo bread.

28/04/2024

So this was a Danish family visiting South Africa for the first time.
Part leisure, part business, which is great as the guest's company is seeing business opportunities here.
Did a gourmet braai dinner on their second evening here and a seafood based lunch the day before they left.
Was lucky enough to be gifted some great wine as they overbought/under drank.
They're coming back in October, so hopefully will see them again.

07/04/2024

A slightly different view of the Atlantic to that I usually have when cooking in Camps Bay and surrounds. This villa has a stunning view from the ground floor deck and an even better one form the upstairs living and dining area.
This was a family out from England and although the menu was titled "a no special reason dinner", I was advised in advance that a marriage proposal would come towards the end of the dinner.
Doesn't happen at to many (ie none) of my gigs so it was quite an occasion all round.
What's come about from cooking here, is that I have been placed on this property's agent's list of chefs. Always good to be exposed to new sources of referrals.

17/03/2024

A dinner for a group from KZN. Love the rough seas in the background. It had been raining for a few days and the water running off the mountain was gushing past the property at a noisily alarming rate.

27/02/2024

A seafood braai for a group of friends from the Netherlands. Four different seafood influenced canapes, including super fresh oysters, were served casually on the pool deck, followed by mussels and garlic bread served individually at the table.
A buffet of kob, yellowtail, lobster tails, baby potatoes two ways, a green salad with rainbow tomatoes and a charred corn, peppers, red onion and avocado salsa followed.
Dom pedro's a la Vic were a hit, especially as none of them had tasted one before.
Oh, this came from the guests after I sent them the salsa recipe.
"Thanks Vic!
And again thanks for the memorable evening"

25/01/2024

Another cooking bucket list was to do a rooftop function and late last year, this happened (tick). A fourth floor apartment with stairs leading to the rooftop. The first photo is what you see when you step out. There was a bar and barman, and a DJ and sax player later on.

07/01/2024

I wanted to post this before the end of 2023 but didn't find the time to do so. This must be amongst the top reviews I've ever received.
It started out as a surprise for his girlfriend but didn't exactly turn out that way. Please read the review for the whole story. Oh, by the way, I even saved them using an Uber, as after dinner I drove them to where they were staying, which was her surprise for him.
The best thing about running late is that I could watch the last twenty minutes of a Liverpool game were we came from behind to win by a late goal.

25/12/2023

A dinner for some American guests of expert local tour guide Brandon Platt Thanks for the referral.

10/12/2023

An intimate 30th birthday dinner.

18/11/2023

After my last post here, the guest sent me this photo and reminded me of the review she posted on Take a Chef, where she found my services. I must say it was very flattering and my team and I were very happy to receive it.

07/11/2023

This was a recent 40th birthday dinner held at the guest's house in the middle of the southern suburbs.
We offered a six course tasting menu but what made it unique for me was that they had a sommelier who presented wines with each course. I might have had a couple of tasting towards the end of the evening. Only to ensure that he got the pairings right of course.
It was a great evening and we've already been booked for the wife's 40th next year.

10/10/2023

I've always wanted to cook at one of the apartments in the Waterfront near the One and Only hotel.
A few months back, a guest who I had cooked for two years back, contacted me to arrange a dinner.
It wasn't the easiest service with loadshedding smack in the middle of prep and a small kitchen, but at least I can tick that off my cheffing bucket list.

05/10/2023

So was Googling myself as one does (ha ha) and came across this review posted on the website of one of my property agents that I work with. Posted the whole thing so its a proper representation of what was said. Had to pinch myself to see if what I read was real.
New - Just added a photo of the family "responsible" for this.

"Great house, killer views!! Well located to see highlights north and south!!
Only 2 things
Kitchen missing some basics- good frying pan, ladle for soup. But other than that fully equipped.
The house is not very sound proof.
Unfortunately, fireplace not working during our stay.

Recommended a chef called Vic de Valdorf, was best meal we had in SA!!

All in all super happy with our stay would give 4.5/5 if option was there."

16/09/2023

A couple of Americans treated themselves to a lunch prepared by me on their first visit to Cape Town. I think they were having a stay at home spa treatment, which accounts for their outfits.
Main course was a mix of coloured spaghetti, crayfish, kingklip, prawns and scallops in a lemon, garlic, mild chili cream sauce.

30/07/2023

Always nice to cook at a new villa especially if it's in the countryside. Five American guests staying there asked me to prepare their last dinner in South Africa before heading home. I designed an Out of Africa (geddit) menu and also curated a Constantia based wine list. Fun times all round.

21/06/2023

The guest who I posted about yesterday, saw it and reminded me of pics they took and had sent me. So to honour their photographic skills, here they are. The first one was of the canapés served at poolside sunken den. The table pic has a more interesting aspect to it than the photo I posted.

20/06/2023

So now I really have a load of catching up to do. Posts will be coming up in now particular order.
This was another very pleasant family group celebrating their mom's special birthday. We supplied the personalised menus and organised the balloons.
Apart from receiving compliments on the food served, we were also told that we left the kitchen cleaner than before we arrived. This was gratifying, especially as the owner of the villa had complained about other chefs leaving the place in a mess.

18/04/2023

Been a massive backlog in posting gig pics and menus. I'm sure it will be worth the wait though 🧐 This was a fairly last minute New Years Eve gig, mainly guests living in the USA but non of them American.
The agent charged them top dollar so I had to come up with the goods as can be seen on the menu.
We had to work in a really cramped kitchen but we soldiered on bravely and produced lots of deliciousness.
When we were cleaning up at the end of service, two of the lads were using a pot and plate to cook up something that wasn't on my menu. Luckily for them we didn't dispose of it in error.🙃

03/03/2023

Yikes, I haven't posted for ages. This was for a Swedish group who twice postponed their holiday here and the booking with me due to Covid restrictions. Luckily, I could squeeze then in between Christmas and New Years Eve. Anyway, they had a lovely time, they fed me Swedish Lakrids and I sourced them English style muffins, a fair trade.

19/01/2023

That was quite a hectic festive period cooking wise. My posts are way behind. Loads of local and foreign tourists in the Mother City, including the three people I cooked for on Christmas Day. Nice and laidback afternoon before heading to a lunch elsewhere, where I didn't have to do any cooking 😀

21/12/2022

I was sent this photo of me with the birthday boy. I knew he was a special person when I saw what he was wearing for his birthday dinner. Winston, YNWA.

14/12/2022

As it was as windy as it can only get in Camps Bay and with rain also threatening, we brought the outside in, moving these two large tables and arranging them as best we could in the space available. Tonight's final dinner was to celebrate young Winstons 10th birthday. His wish when asked where he would like to celebrate it, was in (South) Africa. Well, he got his wish and thanks to that the local economy enjoyed an injection of spending by the other 21 people that came with. We went OTT with the food so they wouldn't forget their last night here. A specially made cake and some fireworks ended the evening.

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My recent group from (east) London have just sent me this video. It's fun to see me trying remember the menu off the cuff. And without much hesitation I must add 😎

Vic's kitchen - intro

Surprise surprise. A introductory video from/of me. It seems as if most chefs are posting cooking demos to keep them from going crazy and maybe to even earn some money. I thought I would do the same (for free), less serious and keep them short and sweet, using ingredients you should have on hand. Anyway, no one wants to see me cook and chat for an hour. And my videographer wouldn't stand for it either 😂

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Our Story

Self trained but have spent time overseas in the restaurants of le Moulin Fleuri, Le Grand Monarch, Ravagni oil mill and Paul Ainslie at no 6. Locally I’ve been at the Silvertree @ Kirstenbosch, Buitenverwachting and the Green House.

I’ve worked with the private chef Cheyne Morrisby when he came back from London, was appointed the go to chef for India House at Bastiaanskloof and am currently the chef of choice for Blue Views property group and Camps Bay Luxury Villas.

I offer well cooked meals showcasing our brilliant local produce supporting artisanal producers whenever possible. Nothing is to much effort for me. Wine pairings and a villa stocking service is also offered.