A McHenry County Personal Chef services that provides meal prep, dinner parties, or a cooking class as well as dealing with special diets. We also have no problem cooking meats and fish and can also work with the nutrition advice given by doctors to create outstanding meals for you to feel good about.

A personal chef will do all your shopping, come to your home, do the cooking and clean up and leave meals in your fridge for the agreed amount of days so you have all the time to concentrate on other important things.

We set up a free consultation, have a chat about goals, allergies, foods liked or disliked, and create a menu and food plan to help you reach these goals.

You can hire a personal chef for a week's food for one time only or on a regular basis. Or you can hire the chef for a day, for dinner parties, for recipe creation, for group or one-to-one cooking classes.

We also do many dinner parties around the McHenry County from 2 people upwards for birthdays, grads, Christmas, Thanks Giving etc.

Even if you just fancy a change in diet or want to try a plant-based meal, discover new dishes new flavors, chef Stephen Byrne with over 20 years of experience can do just about anything required.

Serving McHenry County, Woodstock, Crystal Lake, Harvard, Marengo, Algonquin, Bull Valley, Cary, Fox Lake, Fox River Grove, Greenwood, Hebron, Holiday Hills, Island Lake, Johnsburg, Lake in the Hills, Lakemoor, Lakewood, McCullom Lake, Oakwood Hills, Port Barrington, Prairie Grove, Richmond, Ringwood, Spring Grove, Trout Valley, Union, Wonder Lake, Volo, Burtons Bridge, Hartland, Lake Killarney, Palm Beach, Ridgefield

A professional chef over 20 years, worked in Ireland, Australia, Canada, I have now relocated to Illinois.

In the last two years, I was a free-lance chef and consultant working in many restaurants, strengthening my skills and knowledge to an already successful career.

As a fitness fanatic my diet has always changed and in the last few years swung towards veganism. This has dramatically changed my body, mind, and led to my best fitness level I have ever reached, and at 45 feel 18.

I created Odes of Food to start building a business as a personal chef to help people change diets, feel healthier and discover new amazing foods and techniques of cooking.

I now offer a personal chef service as well as cooking classes and catering for small parties.

I called the site Odes of Food as I am also a published author with a love for poetry and eventually will add cooking and poetry combined workshops to my business.