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### Private Chef Matteo Pantoliano – Fine Dining Experiences at Home **I am Matteo Pantoliano, a chef and hospitality professional.** For many years I led the restaurant **Il Monastero**, building my experience across the kitchen, dining room, and full service management. This journey allows me today to offer something that goes beyond a simple dinner: **I create true culinary experiences.** My cuisine is rooted in **Italian and Mediterranean tradition**. I work with **seasonal ingredients**, clean technique, and clear flavors. Every dish is designed to be **recognizable, elegant, and memorable**. As a **private chef**, I bring the restaurant experience directly to your home, villa, or chosen event location. I take care of everything so you can fully enjoy the evening with your guests. ### What the private chef service includes * **Custom menu creation** tailored to your tastes and the occasion * **Selection of fresh, seasonal ingredients** * **Full preparation of all dishes** in your kitchen * **Kitchen organization and service management** * **Professional plating and final presentation** like in a restaurant **The goal is simple:** to create an evening that you and your guests will truly remember. I work for **private dinners, exclusive events, anniversaries, and weddings in private residences**, offering an elegant, discreet, and fully personalized service. **If you want to turn a dinner into a real experience, I am the right person.**

I am a Le Cordon Bleu–trained private chef with over 10 years of professional experience, specializing in high-end sushi experiences designed for clients who appreciate precision, elegance, and exceptional flavor. My culinary identity is rooted in Japanese technique and discipline, elevated with Mediterranean finesse and subtle Caribbean warmth. This fusion allows me to create sushi that feels refined yet expressive — clean flavors, impeccable balance, and visually striking presentation. I focus on premium ingredients, meticulous knife work, and thoughtful composition, crafting menus that feel exclusive, personalized, and unforgettable. From delicate nigiri and creative rolls to seafood-forward tasting experiences, every detail is intentional. One of the dishes I’m most proud of is my signature sushi selection, where technique, creativity, and restraint come together — the kind of dish that defines luxury through simplicity and execution. My approach to private dining is discreet, polished, and client-centered. I believe true luxury is not excess, but precision, calm, and flawless execution. You enjoy the moment — I take care of everything else

My journey began at a kitchen table in Antwerp, where the scent of spices and the laughter of friends around the table shaped my love for cooking. What started as small dinners for family and neighbors grew into a culinary experience that brings people together. Today, I create intimate, restaurant-quality dinners in your home — fully tailored, from familiar classics to dishes inspired by world cuisines. Every menu tells a new story, every table becomes a place where flavors connect and guests can escape the rush of everyday life. For me, it’s all about warmth, attention, and a culinary experience as unique as the people sharing it.

Discreet and detail-oriented Private Chef with twenty five years of culinary experience, specializing in personalized weekly meal planning, fine dining experiences, and health-focused cuisine. Experienced in managing private Yachts and household kitchens, sourcing premium ingredients, and creating customized menus based on dietary requirements (gluten-free, vegan, allergen-sensitive...). Committed to delivering Michelin starred restaurant-quality cuisine for a magical moments live-in private estate settings.

I am a sunny and positive person, who loves life and finds fulfillment in loving people through great food. To me cooking is not a job, it’s a passion, and what makes my soul satisifed. Cooking is part of who I am and is the tool that I use to transmit wellbeing to other people. I come from Sardinia. My love for the sea brought me to the passion for the Seafood. The cooking technique of the sous vide at low temperature, allows me to preserve all the smell and the flavours of the sea in every dish. Giving the maximum value and respect to every God given source of food on earth. The same concept I use it for the meats, which I select carefully using only grass-fed meat raised in the most ethic, natural and sustainable way. Cooking every cut at low temperature for many hours allows to obtain a tender and juicy cut that melts in your mouth like butter in a divine union of flavors which will satisfy all your senses. I have learned to cook from dozens of people throughout restaurants all over the world in the last twenty years. Starting from my mum, the MasterChef number one in the world. Then travelling through Italy, Australia, and New Zealand to the South Pole, where I have been the sous chef and baker of the expedition of the Italian Scientific Facility Research in Antarctica. When I was fifteen, I started study at the Hospitality Institute of Castelfranco Veneto, I got specialized in my studies at the University of Flour of the Molino Quaglia, then I studied again Molecular Cuisine at the Italian Food Academy of Milan. I put Love in everything that I cook. I carefully take care of every detail of my Craft, researching obsessively the best ingredient available on the market. I love to collaborate as much as possible with local producers, to validate the land where I live and the job of small Artisans that through hard work and dedication creates pure culinary gems which I feel honored to be able to use for my Authentic Italian Menus. In 2017 I have been recognized as the Ambassador of the True Italian Pizza in the World, by the A.O.C.R.I. (Association of Operators of Italian Restaurateurs and Consumer). My obsession for the Pizza Craft got me awarded at the New Zealand Pizza World Championship in 2015, with four publications in the main local newspapers. I have been invited as a guest of the Italian Radio Station in New Zealand “Ondazzurra” e in prime time National Television at the famous Tv Show Country Calendar. My story has been then published in the book “Talent Story Pizza in the World”. My passion for food, health, and longevity, and the impact food has on the people wellbeing through his intestinal microbiome, has brought me to unite my knowledge in the scientific field with my gastronomic skills assets, marring a cuisine philosophy dedicated to the healthiness and highest quality of every single ingredient that I use. This balances the union of flavors and nutritional value of every single meal, not forgetting the ancient culinary traditions of this country. Beyond fermented food with with life giving probiotic effect, I am specialized in sourdough produce with unrefined, self-produced flour, milled in a small noncommercial stone mill. It is a pleasure to follow the growing process of wheat, from putting the seed in the soil to the baking of the loaf in my wood fired oven. Nothing arises sweet memories like the smell of a freshly baked sourdough loaf. One of the most basic, important and primordial foods known to mankind, – The Bread – a nutritious product who gives life.