Chef Cristiano Besazza

Private Chef in St Kilda East

19Services completed

4.95 / 5Based on 11 reviews

English · ItalianLanguages

St Kilda EastI travel up to 100 km

Get to know me better

I don't work for success, simply to improve myself and give pleasure to my guests.

I am an Italian professional chef with 15 years of experience around the world between Europe, Russia and Australia.

I love to cook with local and seasonal products.

I specialize in Mediterranean, Italian and vegetable cuisine and I like to combine Australian tastes.

Finally I respect the environment by not using plastic or surrogate products.

More about me

For me, cooking is...

I can express totally myself and I can offer emotions to my guests. Cooking is all my time and my life.

I learned to cook at...

In one of the most Famous Italian culinary school. Moreover my parents have a restaurant and I did experience in a good/high levels restaurants.

A cooking secret...

mix classic recipes with new processing techniques. And strong cleanliness.

Types of cuisine I prepare

Mediterranean
Italian

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Chef Cristiano's reviews

4.95

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19 services

Thanks so much for providing an amazing stress free, enjoyable, tasty and wonderful meal! Well worth it!!

Chef Cristiano Besazza was the chef for my husband’s and my 40th wedding anniversary. We wanted a memorable event for this important day. Delicious 4-course meal including scallops, gnocchi, beef cheek and chocolate terrine, cooked in our own home and an attentive chef certainly delivered in spades. He even washed dishes and left the kitchen spotless. Chef Cristiano and Take a Chef are highly recommended by us.

From the time Josh arrived he engaged with me and my guests. Although working in an open plan kitchen dining area there was no interruption by noise during the prep serve and clean process. Loved the fact Josh paced each course to suit us and checked in prior. The food was superb. Thanks Josh and Cristiano for making my birthday dinner a memorable evening. Highly recommend. Nickie

We invited Cristiano to prepare a beautiful experience for my mum's 60th Italian themed birthday. The food was exquisite, beautifully presented and we all loved hearing about the backstory to the dishes we were eating. Cristiano and his waitress Veronica were the perfect mix of engaging, fun and professional. They were both respectful of our home and better yet, left our kitchen cleaner than what it was when they arrived! We will definitely be getting Cristiano back for our next dinner party, I couldn't recommend the experience more highly.

Chef Cristiano and Josh were absolutely amazing! They were very friendly and engaging, and the food was so tasty, with beautiful flavours, variety and presentation. Their work made my night so easy and my guests were very impressed! Chef Cristiano was very professional, and he was organised, and paid attention to detail, such as menus on table, bread, and providing crockery or cutlery if we needed this. They left the kitchen in a better state than it was at the start of the night. Would highly recommend, and will be booking them again for future dates. Thank you so much!

We recently enjoyed a fabulous belated birthday dinner, with sensational food by Cristiano Besazzo. He brought his chef skills to our home and managed to turn our dining room into an elegant, first class restaurant, amazing both us, and our guests. He was friendly, professional, had an expansive culinary knowledge, and nothing was too much trouble. He arrived with everything needed to create a sumptuous feast, and left our kitchen spotless afterwards, including handwashing our silver cutlery. All the courses were amazing, but my favourite dish was Sugarloaf cabbage with apple, buttermilk and seeds. Yummo! Thanks so much Cristiano for giving us an unforgettable dining experience.

Chef Cristiano was very professional and made the dining experience so enjoyable.I would highly recommend Chef Cristiano for very important and delicate events ,he knows his food and presentation was perfect???????? Thanks for the great experience!

Exception experience. To say this was the best food I've ever tasted wouldn't be enough praise. The Chef had (literally) intimate knowledge of each piece of food that he was serving and was kind enough to share that with us. He was so polite and I doubt we'll be lucky enough to have a menu like this again. So much flavour and each course tasted completely different. We look forward to having him again.

Cristiano and Josh were incredible, we had a wonderful evening for my wife's birthday. They arrived on time, and the dishes were absolutely superb. Everyone was blown away with the quality and presentation of the food. Cristiano and Josh also did a great job keeping the kitchen spotless. We had 15 guests, including a couple of kids meals and gluten free dishes. It was a super memorable event. My first time hiring a chef for home and I would definitely use them again.

What an excellent day we will be doing this again!

Beautiful experience! One I would do again & recommend