Private Chef Fine Dining on Maui

Lotus Chefs has you covered for all your fine dining private chef experience requests! Just fill out our request form with your date, location, group size, and any preferences. We’ll get back to you with a custom quote, an offer for a free consultation call, and weʻll begin crafting your menu and experience. We recommend booking early, especially during peak seasons.

Lotus Chefs serves all of Maui for private chef services, including Southside (Kihei, Wailea, Makena), Westside (Lahaina, Kaanapali, Napili), North Shore & Upcountry (Paia, Haiku, Makawao, Pukalani, Kula, Huelo), Central (Kahului, Wailuku, Maalaea), and beyond. We do bill a travel fee, and some destinations, such as Hana, may necessitate lodging.

Every meal we serve is the result of deep planning, sourcing, and intention. While our team typically spends 4–5 hours onsite, from setup to cleanup, there’s much more behind the scenes. Each service includes another 5–8 hours of offsite work: curating your menu, sourcing local ingredients, driving across island farms and grocers, prepping specialty items, and navigating Maui’s unique logistics. This is slow food, done thoughtfully, with love, aloha, and a whole lot of heart.

Every meal we serve is the result of deep planning, sourcing, and intention. For our Fine Dining services, the service itself lasts from 90-150 minutes, and our team will spend 5-7 hours onsite. From setup to cleanup, there’s much more behind the scenes. Each service includes another 8+ hours of offsite work: curating your menu, sourcing local ingredients, driving across island farms and grocers, prepping specialty items, and navigating Maui’s unique logistics. This is slow food, done thoughtfully, with love, aloha, and a whole lot of heart.

Yes! Choose from our selection of elegant multi-course plated dinners. While we donʻt consider our fine dining menu to be a “tasting menu” per se (as in our experience in luxury dining, it often means that guests may leave hungry after a multitude of bite-sized portions), as we add additional courses, we adjust portion sizes accordingly. Overall: just let us know what youʻd like. All of Lotus Chefʻs menus are personalized and use fresh, local ingredients to match the energy of your celebration.

We’re an all-female team focused on heartfelt hospitality, exceptional food, and seamless service. With deep roots in Maui’s culinary scene and wellness community, we specialize in creating intimate, memorable, and meaningful dining experiences.

Absolutely. We’re parents, aunties, and caregivers too, and happy to accomodate little ones. Often parents choose us over a traditional restaurant so kids can either partake, or be nearby in bed while you indulge. We have a variety of menu options that can all be customized for your family, and are happy to whip up mac & cheese or offer a tropical fruit tasting. Kids also love helping to decorate the printed menus. In short – yes 🙂

With Lotus Chefs, every fine dining dinner includes custom menu planning, ingredient sourcing, setup, cooking, plated service, still & sparkling spa water service, and full cleanup. Our menus offer a variety of service tiers (Silver, Gold, Platinum), each adding on multiple courses and styling options. Beyond that, we are always happy to customize to create your perfect meal. 

Whenever possible, we try to match the energy of the “adult meal” by modifying items for children, such as leaving sauces and spice on the side or simplifying ingredients and cooking for picky eaters. That all being said, we’re always happy to make pasta with butter, quesadillas, mini sandwiches, steamed veggies, hand make chicken nuggets or grab organic dino nuggets. You just let us know what will get eaten with the least amount of fuss.

We completely understand. While we love getting fancy, we also love simplifying. We also offer more casual family-style private chef services. Take a peek around our website, there is something for everyone!

We do need a real kitchen with counter space in order to cook, a dining area to serve, and basic kitchen equipment such as a refrigerator, oven, stovetop, sink, etc. For grilled items we do need an exclusive grill. We ask that your home or rental be supplied with a table, prep area, chairs, plates, flatware, cups, and any other items needed for service. We do provide specialized chef equipment, serving platters, cloth napkins, and little touches. We need parking and access to load our equipment and supplies in. Before service, we’ll ask that you have your kitchen clear of personal belongings, dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and ready for us to take over. If you need additional supplies, we can arrange or offer rentals.

We are accustomed to working in homes and rentals both while families are home, and while they are away. As long as we have a way to access the kitchen, you are welcome to spend your time while we cook at the beach, spa, zipline, or even Hana. We’ll be waiting when you return!

While private chef services in general can be all over the board in terms of costs, with variations for chef experience and menus, in general, private chef tasting menus and fine dining experiences on Maui range from $200-$500 per person.

Rather than calculating custom hourly + food costs for each service, Lotus Chefs’ private chef services are packaged at all-inclusive rates. We do this for ease and transparency. Lotus Chefs’ fine dining chef services generally begin at $165 per person for lower tiers of service with larger groups, and go up from there as group sizes decrease and service requests increase. Children 5-11 are half off adult pricing, and children under 5 are free. We do bill the standard 4.7% Maui GET tax, a flat rate travel fee, and 2.9% processing fees, which can be omitted with payment by cash or check. 

Gratuities are never expected but always appreciated as a gesture of gratitude for excellent service. Should you feel inspired to show extra appreciation for our chefs and staff, any additional gratuity will be graciously accepted and evenly distributed among the team based on hours. While Lotus Chefs is committed to competitive and fair pay, additional tokens of thanks directly support the hardworking individuals who bring love, intention, and flavor to every meal, creating experiences that align with your family and dining goals.

Yes, faithfully. We honor girl scout rules of: leave no trace & leave it better than you found it. We handle the full clea,nup including dishes, surfaces, sweeping, taking out the trash, etc so your kitchen sparkles and your vacation stays uninterrupted.

We always include still & sparkling spa water service, and local coffee or tea following your meal upon request. We do not provide any alcoholic beverages, but are happy to make you a mixer for drinks, provide wine pairing suggestions or connect you with a sommelier or mixologist. 

Yes, we’re fully insured and work regularly in vacation homes across Maui such as VRBO, and are featured on AirBnb. We respect the space, communicate with property managers when needed, and adapt to all kitchen types.