Chefs Talents · Founder
Thomas Delcroix.
Private chef, founder of Chefs Talents. A network built on the ground · in Michelin-starred kitchens and on board superyachts.
My journey
Private chef since 2019. Over 200 one-off missions: private dinners, villa stays, weekends, family events. What drew me to private cooking: the client is in the next room, not behind a pass · you cook for someone, not for a service.
Between 2023 and 2025, a dozen long contracts · including more than 6 months on yachts in the Mediterranean. You learn fast when there's no fishmonger 200 metres away and your space is counted. Expectations are high, the unexpected daily.
On every mission, the same finding: excellent chefs exist, but nobody knows how to find them. And clients often end up with people who lied on their CV.
June 2023, I built Chefs Talents. The idea fits in one sentence: a place where, when you call, you speak to someone who personally knows every chef on the list. Not a marketplace. Not an algorithm. A single point of contact.
2019
Started as private chef
200+
Missions completed
1,000+
Chefs Talents missions since 2023
50+
Destinations covered
My vision
What
I'm building.
The private chef industry is opaque. Rates vary threefold with no clear logic. Clients don't know what they're paying for. Serious chefs undercharge. And introductions happen by word-of-mouth in a closed circle. I want to break that.
Our network is chefs I met in the kitchen, on a yacht, or in a villa where I was working. Not spontaneous applications sorted by an algorithm. When I introduce someone, I can tell you where they came from, what they cook well, and where they've already messed up.
What I sell my clients is what I would have wanted to find when I was a chef: a contact who knows the ground on both sides, who doesn't sell dreams, and who picks up the phone · including 10pm on a Saturday.
The network
400 chefs.
Selected one by one.
Met on the ground
Most chefs in the network were met directly: in the kitchen, on a yacht, in a villa. Not strangers filtered by an algorithm.
Minimum five years pro
Starred tables, palaces, yachts. We require five years in professional kitchens, two of them in private. We call at least three former employers before validating.
Covering all of Europe
France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Croatia: over 50 destinations covered by local or mobile chefs able to intervene quickly.
A question? A need?
Contact me directly.
I answer every request personally. If your mission fits what we do, I propose a selection of suitable profiles within 6 hours.