Chef Végétal · Aude, Corbières, Occitanie
Hire a plant-based chef at home: how it works
A plant-based chef comes to your home, shops, cooks, serves at the table and leaves the kitchen clean. Here is the path, from request to dinner.
Why a platform of plant-based chefs
With us, everything starts from a why: health, the quality of consciousness, the quality of life on Earth. A plant-based meal, cooked with care, adds to it in its own way. We eat better, we talk better, we look after what carries us.
I am Virgile, a chef and researcher in plant nutrition, based in Serres, in the Corbières. Requests for a private chef keep coming, and almost no platform offers a fully plant-based kitchen. So we created Chef Végétal. I am the first chef to cook there; others join us one by one, after a real meeting. Our story: Chef Végétal is born.
Five ways to invite a plant-based chef
The chef adapts to your table, your place and your rhythm.
The dinner
From 2 to 20 guests, at your home. From €350 a meal, shopping included; the price per guest goes down as the table grows.
The chef by your side
From 2 to 4 hours of cooking together, and we talk about what we eat.
The workshop
From 6 to 14 people: raw cuisine, fermentation, cacao, Japan. We cook, then we eat.
The retreat
A daily package for groups, from 6 to 30 guests, on quotation.
The stay
A chef for several days, in your home or at a partner venue.
Who it is for
For everyone who loves a living table. Families, for a birthday or a reunion. Groups in a gîte, who enjoy the stay without spending the evening in the kitchen. Retreat organisers. Nomads, who rent a house together for a month. Companies, for a team workshop.
Each situation has its page: Who it is for. And for December: the festive days, New Year's tables and gift cards.
How it works, in 4 steps
The request
You describe your table: date, place, guests, wishes, diets. A few screens are enough.
The proposals
Someone from the team answers within 24 hours: a menu, a price per guest and how it is calculated, shopping included.
The menu and the booking
We adjust the dishes with the chef and confirm the date. You pay online; the payment is held by Stripe.
The day itself
Our chefs arrive early. The chef cooks, serves at the table and leaves the kitchen clean.
Where does each euro go? Everything is explained on the page How it works.
Partner venues: guesthouses and retreat centres
A plant-based chef can also cook in a place that welcomes guests: a group gîte, a retreat centre, a guesthouse, in the Aude, in the Corbières and across Occitanie. The venue keeps its overnight stays and its bookings; the chef comes to cook for its guests, with their own professional insurance. The first partner venues are on their way.
You host groups? Propose your venue. You are a chef and you cook 100% plant-based? Become a partner chef: we meet before anything goes online.
The pantry: where the chef shops
The pantry (La réserve, in French) gathers the houses our chefs chose one by one, tasted, ordered many times: fresh dates and raw olives, mangoes from Andalusia, spirulina from the Aude, spices, honey from the Haute Vallée de l'Aude. You can order the same ones. We tell these meetings in Suppliers & Encounters.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a plant-based chef at home cost?
A dinner starts at €350 a meal, shopping included. The price is counted per guest and goes down as the table grows, from 2 to 20 guests. You see the calculation before you book. Retreats and stays: on quotation.
What does the chef do on the day of the meal?
The chef arrives early, shopping done. They cook at your home, serve at the table and leave the kitchen clean. You enjoy your guests.
Where can a plant-based chef come?
We start close to home: the Aude, the Corbières, Occitanie. Virgile travels up to 100 km around Serres; other chefs state their area on their page.
When and how do you pay?
When you book, online, by card. Stripe, a licensed payment provider, holds the money: neither we nor the chef touch it before the meal. The details are on the page "How it works".
Do you have to be vegan to invite a plant-based chef?
Not at all. The tables are 100% plant-based and designed for everyone. The chef adapts to diets and allergies: tell us in your request.
Going further
- Meet Virgile — The platform's first chef.
- Cook plant-based at home — Our recipes, with their real ingredients.
- Work with Virgile — Retreats, events, culinary creation.
Tell us about your table
The date, the place, the group: you receive proposals within 24 hours, with their price and how it is calculated.
Request a menu on chefvegetal.fr