A beautifully set table, curated by a Maui personal chef, features four plates of gourmet salad with greens, avocado, and lotus root. The centerpiece is a vibrant floral arrangement surrounded by small disco balls. Pink napkins and glassware complete the elegant setup.

Maui private chef services with art, heart, and soul.

100% Women

Owned + Operated

70+ ✩✩✩✩✩

5-star Public Reviews

90% Local

Sourced Produce

25+ Years

Hospitality Experience

1000+ Meals

Served with LOVE

Private Chef Services on Maui

intuitive • warm • curated • personal

Lotus Chefs began with a simple belief: the best meals aren’t only remembered for what was on the plate. We remember them for how they made us feel.

For more than a decade, we’ve had the joy of cooking on Maui for families on once-in-a-lifetime vacations, couples celebrating something big, retreat guests gathering with intention, teams stepping away together, and friends who simply wanted a beautiful meal around the same table.

Today, Lotus Chefs is an all-women team of chefs, bakers, hospitality professionals, and creatives, each bringing her own background, flavors, training, and point of view to what we do.

Our style is polished without pretension. Approachable while still feeling luxurious. Genuine warmth meets organization and professionalism.

We are thoughtful about the details without forgetting that everyone is ultimately here to eat, laugh, connect, and enjoy themselves.

Food made and served with love.

And after all these years, that’s still the heart of everything we do.

How would you like to gather?

Some evenings call for a beautifully plated dinner. Others are better with shared platters, bare feet, and everyone lingering around the table. From slow brunches and hands-on cooking classes to intimate weddings and celebrations, we’ll meet you where you are and make it delicious.

 

Explore our private chef experiences on Maui and find the one that feels most like you.

Private Chef Dinners

Personal • Flexible • Delicious

Choose relaxed family-style dining or a fully styled, coursed fine dining experience, prepared and served in your Maui home or vacation rental.

Brunch Experience

Indulgent • Abundant • Leisurely

Abundant brunch spreads, beautiful Benedicts, local coffee, pastries, fresh island ingredients, and plenty of reasons to pour another mimosa.

Bridal Celebrations

Feminine • Playful • Celebratory

Bridal brunches, bachelorette dinners, showers, cooking classes, styled gatherings, and beautiful ways to bring your favorite women together.

Microweddings & Elopements

Intimate • Romantic • Meaningful

Boutique wedding-day dining for the two of you or your closest circle, with beautiful food, full tablescape styling, and hospitality centered around the moment.

Fine Dining

Refined • Artful • Intentional

An elevated evening of coursed dining, beautiful tablescapes, local ingredients, and full-service hospitality brought entirely to your table.

Family-Friendly Dining

Relaxed • Generous • Welcoming

Generous shared plates, relaxed service, and beautiful food for families, friends, and anyone who prefers passing dishes to polished formality.

Cooking Classes

Interactive • Playful • Delicious

Private, hands-on culinary experiences for adults, families, and groups, plus our much-loved pre-dinner cooking classes for little chefs.

Tea Parties & Afternoon Tea

Whimsical • Vintage • Unique

Meet Camellia Tea Society, our whimsical sister company for vintage tea parties, champagne gatherings, styled celebrations, and a little more magic around the table.

Wellness Retreats

Nourishing • Intentional • Transformative

Nourishing, intentional hospitality rooted in Maui’s wellness community, with multi-day catering, specialized dietary support, ceremonial experiences, and room for a little magic.

Corporate Retreats + Offsites

Bespoke • Seamless • Professional

Polished, bespoke private chef hospitality for leadership teams, executive retreats, and company gatherings, built around your property, itinerary, and team.

FOR THE WHOLE TABLE

Keiki always included.

Some of our favorite tables are the slightly chaotic ones.

Lotus Chefs has spent years cooking for multigenerational families on Maui, and many of us are mamas ourselves. We know that making dinner special for the adults shouldn’t require asking the kids to suddenly behave like tiny fine-dining critics. We get it.

We’ll happily simplify flavors, serve little ones first, accommodate different dietary needs, and make sure there is something everyone is genuinely excited to eat. We even bring our custom coloring books, stickers, and fresh crayons for all services.

Want to make the evening even more fun? Add a pre-dinner keiki cooking class while the grown-ups enjoy happy hour nearby. Little chefs cook with our team, learn about local ingredients, and proudly present what they’ve made to the table afterward.

Because a family-friendly dinner shouldn’t feel like a compromise.

It should feel like everyone gets to enjoy themselves.

KIND WORDS

Reviews from Our Past Guests

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Kerrygoogle

“We had a wonderful experience with Lotus Chefs on Maui celebrating our parents’ 50th wedding anniversary! They were warm, hospitable and accommodating and had excellent communication from start to finish. The kids’ cooking class for the grandkids was such a fun and memorable touch. They were fantastic with the children, and our whole family loved the experience.”

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Jeff Mgoogle

“Our group of 9 enjoyed both a brunch and a fine dining dinner service. It was the culinary highlight of our trip to Maui - handily topping restaurants like Mama’s Fish House, Merriman’s, et. al. The level of culinary precision and service was second-to-none. We will not hesitate to use Lotus again when we return to Maui.”

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Tanya C.google

“An amazing evening with Lotus Chefs! Chef Kyra and her team were such a pleasure to work with. Everything was fantastic. The flavors of the food, the tablescape, the attention to detail in every dish and the pleasant smiles created for memorable evening, which is no small feat for a group of 15! The food was so fresh and we appreciated the locally sourced ingredients. Such a great Hawaiian experience enjoyed right in the privacy of our vacation rental.”

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Phillip S.google

“Incredible food and team. We hired Lotus Chefs to cook for our multigenerational family of 7 adults and 2 small kids from 3 different countries. A total of 3 mights of our vacation. They were the best meals we had in Maui! They were organized and right on time, the food looked and tasted beautiful, and they accommodated all our quirks, crazy kids running around, and served the most tasty and relaxing meals we had. You don't be disappointed.”

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Caitlin A.google

“We hired lotus chefs for my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary while we were visiting Maui. We had an incredible dining experience. They were able to customize to our eating preferences, including vegan and low sodium options and options for the kids. Everything was so colorful and beautifully made, the flavors were incredible. We all went back for seconds. They showed up on time, communicated professionally and did a wonderful job creating beautiful memories for our family celebration. Would highly recommend them for a special dining experience.”

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Grant B.Family Man with Impeccable Taste

“My family and I arrived to Maui for the first time this year. Lotus Chefs was referred to us from the host at the location we stayed at along with other top tier Chef's. Upon reaching out to a few of them, I found they was they were the most easy going and talented of the group. We did three meals with her (two brunches, one dinner). Was one of the highlights of our trip. Worth every penny and will be a new standard in our family vacations to Maui. Mahalo!”

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Tanya C.google

“An amazing evening with Lotus Chefs! Chef Kyra and her team were such a pleasure to work with. Everything was fantastic. The flavors of the food, the tablescape, the attention to detail in every dish and the pleasant smiles created for memorable evening, which is no small feat for a group of 15! The food was so fresh and we appreciated the locally sourced ingredients. Such a great Hawaiian experience enjoyed right in the privacy of our vacation rental.”

ROOTED ON MAUI

Island Ingredients, Made for Sharing

Maui is home, and its farms, waters, makers, and multicultural food traditions are woven throughout the way we cook.

Whenever seasonality and quality allow, we prioritize ingredients grown, raised, caught, and created here in Hawaiʻi, from fresh produce and seafood to local meats, sourdough, honey, jams, pastries, and other special touches.

Our menus draw inspiration from Hawaiʻi’s layered culinary history and generations of cultural exchange across the islands, alongside the backgrounds, travels, and creativity of our individual chefs.

The result is colorful, seasonal, island-inspired cooking that feels connected to Maui without asking every person at the table to have the same palate.

Chef + hospitality team: all wahine
Local produce goal: 90% 
Maui first: whenever possible
Makers we love: small + local
Guest reviews: all 5 star
Made for you: menus thoughtfully customized

Rooted on Maui, inspired by the people around our table. Every gathering brings together local ingredients, thoughtful hospitality, and a little bit of each chef’s own story.

YOUR TABLE IS WAITING

Ready to Gather?

Tell us who’s coming, where you’re staying, and what you’re dreaming up.

Whether you already know exactly what you want or need a little help choosing between family-style dinner, fine dining, brunch, a cooking class, or something entirely your own, we’ll help you find the Lotus Chefs experience that fits.

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Made with love · Served on Maui