Beautiful selected Plate ware for your next event

Intention of Ingredients

Farmers’ market rotating seasonal menus found right here on the website - with unmatched flavors and detail, for intimate, high-quality dining in your home.

Table’s set

Mattias is not a caterer, but an accomplished private chef who comes equipped for a full dining experience that includes a full table set-up with a huge plate ware collection for your next event.

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One man show

Mattias will always be your chef, serving you table-side with a detailed description of courses. There will never be substitute chefs. Lock in your date today as there is limited availability.

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Discreet

Though he has a long client list, Mattias does not offer to reveal the names of past or future clients. Thank you for understanding

Your Questions, Answered

  • I offer sit-down dinner service based on my rotating seasonal menus found on the website where they are regular updated.

  • Getting started is simple, please each out through the contact page and I will respond within 24 hrs with a quote and all the information that you need to evaluate if you would like to move forward. Once ready simply let me know, and I will send you the options for reserving.

  • I offer an upfront pricing that leaves no guessing the final cost.
    You will have the most experienced private chef in the Santa Barbara area at your disposal and menus based on honing flavors for decades in restaurant kitchens that are uniquely personal to my style of cooking.

  • You can reach me anytime via the contact page for a response within 24hrs. I am well know for lightning quick responses !

  • I offer a sliding scale pricing based on guest count, a transparent quote with no hidden costs.

    The final pricing will be based on the final guest count and will not change after 6 days prior to your dinner.

    Cancelations

    You will receive a full refund no questions asked anytime up until 7 days before your dinner.

  • The set-up is as simple as can be!
    You will have a fully set table with my large collection of dinner plating and decor available for all dinners.

    Once you pay the deposit you will receive a 6 question check list that covers everything needed for me to set you up.

    I’ll bring all necessary cookware and only ask for kitchen counters and a working oven stove range.

    Your kitchen will always be clean at the end of the evening with all clean-up finished before I leave.

  • Yes!
    You may add a bartender to serve your guests specialty cocktails, and we can work out the details if you also would like to have a server combined with the bar,

  • Hiring a personal chef in Santa Barbara for a special occasion is straightforward when you know what to look for and how to prepare.

    Mattias Blom has cooked at 500+ private kitchen homes over the past 13 years and provides the highest quality service in Santa Barbara and the surrounding areas.

  • Experience the difference of a truly personalized dining experience with Mattias Blom — Santa Barbara’s No. 1-rated private chef. Swedish-born and refined by 18 years in top restaurants and a decade serving discerning clients across Santa Ynez, Montecito, Carpinteria, Ojai, Summerland, Los Olivos, and greater Santa Barbara, Mattias brings restaurant-caliber cuisine to your home, vacation rental, or event.

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About

Mattias Blom is a private chef in Santa Barbara, California, cooking seasonal, California-rustic farm table dinners in clients’ homes and vacation rentals, serving Santa Barbara, Montecito, Santa Ynez, and Ojai.

Swedish-born Mattias began as a kitchen apprentice at 12 and worked his way up through restaurant kitchens. He has cooked professionally in Santa Barbara since 1991, spending almost two decades as a restaurant chef before becoming a private chef in 2013.

Unlike caterer-style private chefs who will cook anything on request, Mattias cooks his own food, the way a restaurant chef does. His menus are built around locally farm-sourced ingredients at their seasonal best, with robust, honest flavors and dishes perfected over decades working alongside professional chefs. He brings his own collection of tableware, styled for each home and evening.

Every dinner is cooked by Mattias himself, never a substitute chef, and he serves each course tableside, sharing the story behind the dish in a relaxed, unhurried way. With only one event booked per day, dates are limited. Dinners are ideal for 6 to 15 guests, with larger events considered on request.

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How to get set up

Send me and inquiry from the contact page

I will respond within 24hrs with information for all my offerings

Let me know if you like what you are seeing and want to move forward and I will send you the deposit options.

Once you pay the deposit you will receive a confirmation email that will also have 5 questions that you can answer and return to me anytime up until 6 days prior to your dinner.

That’s it !

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Pricing

You will receive pricing for all menu options when you reach out

No guessing the final cost

All-inclusive and simple

Only one reservation available per day

Never substitute chefs, you will always get me

Ideal guest count 6-12 for best result

Larger events considered

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Experience

You will be treated to my style of cooking which has been developed over 18 years in restaurant kitchens and 10 years as a private chef.

I offer a restaurant-style menu selection based on almost 3 decades of honing flavors and techniques at the finest restaurant kitchens in California and Europe.

If you are staying at a rental there is a good chance that I have cooked at that house as I have worked at hundreds of rentals over the past decade plus.

I am fully insured and have a 100% positive feedback from hosts and clients for a decade running.

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Food and Menus

All available menus are robust on the menu page.

You can look forward to robust and rustic flavors for the finest California Farmhouse dining around.

Seasonally rotating menus that are regularly updated but also favorites that always are available.

Cancelations

You will receive a full refund, no questions asked, anytime up until 10 days before your dinner.

See more details on the contact page.

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What I bring

I have an extensive collection of plate ware that I will select from for each of your courses, along with several other items for a beautiful table set-up.

You will have a fully set table with the following

beautiful plate ware

silverware

glassware

placemats

table runner

porcelain chargers

cloth napkins

water pitchers

water glasses

candles and shrub decor

I also bring all cookware and anything I need to get set up in your kitchen, all I need is counter space (as much as possible) and a cooking range.