Reserve a private dinner

Private events

Private Dining

We cook in your kitchen, your dining room, your office, or a venue you love.

How we work

Bradyn builds the menu around what your people actually eat and what’s good that week. Ali handles the beverage side. You pick the date and the guest list, tell us what the night is for, and we take it from there.

The centerpiece: a tasting menu or family-style dinner cooked in your home or a venue you love. Eight courses or three shared platters. Six people or twenty-six. A quiet night with friends or the loud birthday. The night is built around you.

A hand finishing plated lamb chops at the pass of a home dinner
Caviar on crisp chicken skin with a flower petal, on dark ceramic

What’s included

The menu

Bradyn builds it around what your people actually eat and what’s good that week. Written for the night, not pulled from a binder.

The beverage side

Ali builds the pairing and pours it, working from your cellar or a shop list we send you ahead of the night.

The whole operation

Shopping, prep, service, staff when the night calls for it, and a spotless kitchen at the end. You host; that’s the whole job.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Tell us about the night

    Date, headcount, where, and what it’s for. The form below takes two minutes.

  2. Step 2

    We check the date and send a proposal

    A menu direction, the beverage plan, and a real number, usually within one business day.

  3. Step 3

    Sign online, and a 50% deposit holds it

    The agreement and deposit are both handled right on the site — card or bank debit. The balance is due the day of the event; rescheduling is a conversation, not a penalty.

  4. Step 4

    We show up with everything

    We cook, serve, and leave your kitchen cleaner than we found it.

Pricing, honestly

We don’t publish a rate card, because we don’t cook from one. Every night is scoped to what it’s for: the menu, the headcount, the room. Tell us what you have in mind and the proposal comes back with a real number, usually within one business day.

Tell us about the night

Two minutes, no commitment. We reply to every inquiry within one business day, a real reply from one of the three of us, not an autoresponder.

The night
The occasion
Budget

A range is plenty. It helps us write a proposal that fits, not a pitch that doesn’t.

The details

Prefer email? hello@catalpachicago.com works too.

Reserve a night

 

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Pick an open night — the request takes two minutes, and a person confirms every date.