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Starting from€120/person
Rui Mota
Chef and Food Designer
MediterraneanJapaneseSeafoodBBQ & Grill
- August 2026
- Member since
- 2–12
- Guests
- 14
- Years experience
About Rui Mota
My cuisine is contemporary, creative and very product-focused, combining my Portuguese roots with techniques and influences acquired throughout an international career in some of Europe's leading kitchens.
My experience includes restaurants such as The Fat Duck, by Heston Blumenthal, in the UK, ABaC, by Jordi Cruz, in Barcelona, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona and L'Air du Temps, in Belgium. These experiences helped me build a very personal cuisine, where technique, creativity, flavour and visual component coexist, without losing sight of the ingredient and its identity.
I particularly enjoy working with Portuguese products and familiar flavours, reinterpreting them in a contemporary and sometimes unexpected way. I use modern cooking techniques, research and scientific knowledge when they add something to the experience, but flavour and the pleasure of eating are always the starting point.
As a private chef, I seek to create premium and fully personalised gastronomic experiences, adapting each menu to the occasion, the space, seasonality and the preferences of the guests.
In parallel, I work on gastronomic innovation, product development, consulting and content creation, and I teach in higher education in the areas of gastronomy and culinary innovation.
Automatically translated from Portuguese.
Experiences
Events and sample menus
What's included
Everything a dinner needs, handled.
Menu planning
A menu designed around your occasion, tastes and dietary needs.
Grocery shopping
The chef sources every ingredient fresh, from trusted suppliers.
Cooking at your place
Everything is prepared in your kitchen, course by course.
Table service
Each course is plated and served at your table.
Full cleanup
The kitchen is left the way it was found, or cleaner.
Secure payment
Pay online to confirm your booking, no surprises afterwards.
Good to know
Common questions
Once you submit a request, chefs review your event details and respond with a custom menu proposal and final price. You can discuss adjustments through the platform. Once you are happy with the menu, you confirm and pay a 30% deposit to secure the date; the balance is charged the day after the event.
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Tell us where and when, the chef replies with a custom menu proposal.
Starting from€90/person
