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• Provider travels up to 20 miles

Nouvelle Kitchen is a healthy gourmet personal chef and catering service currently servicing the Greater Philadelphia area.

We offer a personal chef service that is oriented towards creating healthy and delicious meals customized for a wide range of needs and requests. We are especially good with children, and enjoy sharing our expertise with clients.

We will begin with a free consultation to determine your needs and requests, and then we will book your event, or we can schedule weekly service where we prepare, package, and label a week's worth of meals for up to 6 people. Your personal chef comes into your home having completed the shopping for your customized menus. Your kitchen is always left cleaner than it was before we arrived. We can cook with our own materials or with yours.

We are filling up for the December holidays but still have Christmas available. Please note that holiday rates differ from our regular hourly rate.

Nouvelle Kitchen also provides unique catering services for parties of 60 and under.

Contact Chef Rick Barbata today.

A little bit about our chef: Being a chef from Los Angeles, Rick Barbata's culinary career began at Spago on Sunset Boulevard working with the then unknown, Wolfgang Puck. It was there when Wolfgang Puck started incorporating the whole California cuisine concept to the world. Salmon and goat cheese on a pizza, what? It was absolutely unheard of at the time. That man alone helped change the world and the world’s interpretation of what good cooking is all about and he changed Rick Barbata's life too. Rick learned a tremendous amount of food knowledge from him.

Soon after, Rick Barbata would find himself cooking with some of the biggest names in restaurants and the culinary scene on the west coast, and the whole country for that matter. Some of the other chefs Rick has been involved with and gained knowledge from in his career are Michael Roberts, Alain Ducasse, Jean Francois Meteigner, Pat Soma, Michel Richard and others. Fortunately, Rick has been able to parlay his experience of learning and cooking with the best to getting gigs all over the world. The list of famous people that Rick Barbata has fed is long and includes such well-known people as Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, David Geffen, Senator Olympia Snowe and many others.

In more recent years, Rick Barbata had a popular restaurant in Portland, Maine called RICK'S on Munjoy Hill which was voted "Best New Restaurant 2001" and where he was voted "Best New Chef 2001"!

Reviews

• 5/5 stars November 28, 2011

  

  Rick, thank you so much for making our 2011 family thanksgiving dinner a joyous gathering of thirty five happy and well fed people. Each one of the entire food offerings was amazing. My family is sincerely grateful for the delicious meal and your team of relaxed, happy but yet professional servers. Thank you.

  – Toyin

• October 10, 2011

  

  Love Rick's meals! They are based on comfort foods fused with a haute cuisine flair.
  
  I didn't tell my guests that I had a chef prepare the food! Shhhhhh!
  
  Worth every penny!

  – Kelly

• October 9, 2011

  

  Rick has created some really memorable meals for my family. My kids just love when he comes over. They would never eat their brussel sprouts, asparagus, spinach or other vegetables until Rick cooked for us. I whole-heartedly recommend him. He is also full of fun stories from his catering on movie sets days. He's fed some really famous people and had an outstanding restaurant in Portland, Maine called Rick's. My husband and I used to frequent it and then when they dissolved the restaurant partnership, we were pleased to hear he was offering his talents to the community. Thanks Rick! We miss having you in Portland...

  – Gabriella

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