An elegant terrace dinner set by a Prémices private chef on the Basque coast in Biarritz
Private chef · Basque Coast

A private chef in Biarritz.

From Biarritz to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a Michelin-level chef composes a bespoke menu in your villa, on your terrace above the ocean or wherever your summer on the Basque coast takes you. No restaurant, no reservation, only your table.

Biarritz · Saint-Jean-de-Luz · Anglet · Bidart
A Prémices chef presenting refined amuse-bouches before a private dinner
The calibre

Chefs from starred kitchens, service from grand palaces.

Our chefs come from Michelin-starred restaurants, and several hold a star of their own. They cook the way France’s finest kitchens cook, at your table, for one evening.

The chefs and maîtres d’hôtel who cook and serve in the finest Parisian houses travel to the Basque coast for your summer. Every maître d’hôtel is tested, trained in the grand palaces. The welcome, the rhythm, the silence between courses: nothing is left to chance.

Michelin-starred chefs Meilleur Ouvrier de France Palace-trained service
Basque kitchens

One coast, every cuisine.

You set the register of the evening; we bring the chef who owns it. Each comes from a great kitchen, and each carries a signature of their own.

Haute gastronomie

The full grammar of a starred kitchen: tasting menus, exact sauces, a plate that would belong among the finest tables of San Sebastián, minutes down the coast. An evening that feels like a great restaurant kept for you alone.

Basque & South-West

The Basque coast on the plate: line-caught sea bass and txipirons from the port, Espelette pepper, Bayonne ham, tomatoes from the Adour. The cuisine of the South-West, done at the level of a great restaurant.

Cuisines of the world

A Japanese omakase at the counter, a white-truffle dinner from Piedmont, a Levantine table under the stars. When your evening wants to travel, the chef travels with it.

Pastry & the sweet finale

A dedicated pastry chef for the last act: a soufflé that arrives to the minute, a dessert finished at the table. The evening closes with the same intent it opened.

The Basque coast

From Biarritz to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

Biarritz Saint-Jean-de-Luz Anglet Bidart Guéthary Ciboure Bayonne Hossegor Hendaye Ahetze

Wherever your summer address is on the Basque coast, the chef comes to you. Villa, terrace above the waves, golf estate or beach house.

A private wine cellar, great bottles and grands crus kept for a Prémices dinner
Basque & South-West wines

A sommelier, and the bottles to match.

Great food deserves the glass beside it. Our sommelier composes the pairing course by course: a lively Txakoli or a rosé to open, a white Jurançon with the fish, a great Bordeaux or a Rioja with the main, a Sauternes or an aged Armagnac to close.

Tell us the register, discovery, prestige, or a single grower you love, and we source it: rare vintages, magnums, cuvées that never reach a wine list. Or we simply pour alongside the cellar you already keep. Champagne on arrival is a given.

Course-by-course pairings Txakoli, Jurançon & grands crus Rare bottles sourced
A Prémices chef at work in a private kitchen during a cooking class
Cooking classes

Cook beside the chef.

Some afternoons are best spent with your hands in the work. The chef turns your villa kitchen into a studio: a market walk if you like, a menu built together, techniques you keep for good, and a table you finally sit down to because you made it.

A couple, a family, a group of friends by the pool. Aprons, knives, produce and a chef who teaches the way the best ones do, generously. The class becomes the dinner.

Hands-on with the chef From market to table Two to twelve guests
A Prémices maître d’hôtel serving guests in an elegant salon
The service

A dinner served, not only cooked.

A beautiful meal can be undone by a room left to itself. Add a maître d’hôtel and a service team, and the evening runs on its own: aperitifs poured on the terrace, plates carried in rhythm, glasses never empty, the kitchen invisible, the host finally seated among the guests.

Every maître d’hôtel is tested before they serve for us and trained in the grand palaces. The welcome, the timing, the silence between courses: nothing is left to you but the evening itself.

Maître d’hôtel & waiters Palace-trained You stay a guest
Beyond the dinner

Whatever the summer asks for.

A private dinner is the heart of it. Around it, the house arranges the rest of the season.

Receptions

Cocktails & garden parties

Passed canapés and live stations for a terrace full of guests, from an intimate birthday to a summer gala.

Spectacle

Culinary entertainment

A live counter, a chef’s table, a moment of fire and knives. Dinner becomes the heart of the evening rather than a pause in it.

On the water

Yacht & villa dining

The chef comes aboard or up to the estate, provisions in hand, for lunch at anchor or a dinner under the stars.

At scale

Full-service catering

Larger numbers, full logistics: kitchen, service, tableware and flowers. We bring the whole evening; you bring the guests.

An elegant table dressed by Prémices for a private dinner on the Basque coast
No villa? We know the coast.

Addresses that never reach a booking site.

No estate of your own on the coast, or simply the wish for somewhere exceptional? We open off-market Basque addresses, ocean-view villas, surf-side terraces and golf estates, from Biarritz to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

We source the place, you keep the evening.

Explore our venues
One conversation is all it takes

Begin the conversation.

Tell us your date, your number of guests and the evening you imagine. We compose the rest, the chef, the service, the table, and, if you wish, the place.

Plan your Biarritz evening

Frequently asked questions

Which parts of the Basque coast do you cover?

Biarritz, Anglet, Bidart, Guéthary, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Ciboure and Hendaye, and inland to Bayonne and the Basque country.

Can the chef cook line-caught fish from the coast?

Yes. Sea bass, hake and txipirons straight from the port, with Espelette pepper, Bayonne ham and produce from the Basque markets.

Is San Sebastián-style cooking possible?

Yes. San Sebastián is minutes down the coast; the chef can compose anything from pintxos to a full Basque tasting menu.

Can you also arrange the villa, wine and service?

Yes. Off-market ocean-view villas and golf estates, a sommelier and a full service team can all be added.