An elegant dinner set by a Prémices private chef in a Normandy manor
Private chef · Normandy

A private chef in Normandy.

From Deauville and Honfleur to the D-Day beaches, a Michelin-level chef composes a bespoke menu in your manor or rental, a proper table waiting after a day on the coast. No restaurant, no reservation, only your table.

Deauville · Honfleur · Bayeux · the D-Day coast
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 Normandy for your table. 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
The chefs

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 Deauville. An evening that feels like a great restaurant kept for you alone.

Norman & the Channel

The Channel and the pastures on the plate: turbot and sole, Cotentin oysters, salt-marsh lamb, Isigny butter and cream, apples and Calvados, Camembert and Livarot. The cuisine of Normandy, 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.

Across Normandy

From Deauville to the D-Day coast.

Deauville Trouville Honfleur Cabourg Houlgate Bayeux Caen Villers-sur-Mer Étretat Le Havre

Wherever your house is in Normandy, the chef comes to you. Half-timbered manor, seaside villa, country farmhouse or a rental near the beaches.

A private wine cellar, great bottles and grands crus kept for a Prémices dinner
The cellar

A sommelier, and the bottles to match.

Great food deserves the glass beside it. Our sommelier composes the pairing course by course: a glass of dry Normandy cider to open, a white Sancerre or Burgundy with the fish, a great Bordeaux with the meat, a Calvados 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 Cider, Calvados & 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 manor 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 fire. 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 in a Normandy manor
No manor? We know Normandy.

Addresses that never reach a booking site.

No place of your own in the region, or simply the wish for somewhere exceptional? We open off-market Norman addresses, half-timbered manors, seaside villas and country farmhouses, from Deauville to Bayeux.

We source the place, you keep the evening.

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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 Normandy evening

Frequently asked questions

Can you cook after a day at the D-Day beaches?

Yes. The chef arrives while you are still out, sets up in your kitchen and has dinner ready for the hour you return, so the day belongs to the coast.

What Normandy dishes can the chef prepare?

Turbot and sole from the Channel, Cotentin oysters, Isigny butter and cream, apples, Calvados and cheeses such as Camembert and Livarot.

Which parts of Normandy do you cover?

Deauville, Trouville, Honfleur and the Côte Fleurie, Bayeux and the D-Day beaches, and inland towards Caen and the Pays d’Auge.