Private chef Princeville.
The North Shore’s planned bluff community: estate portfolios, resort-adjacent villas, and the island’s summer-prime tables. Shore surcharge $50–$75, published up front; summer books first.
North Shore
The bluff-estate table
Princeville’s stock is made for private dining: big kitchens, long verandas, dining rooms built for twelve. The concierge desks at the estate agencies arrange chef dinners today — booking direct gets you the written quote instead of the phone chain.
Summer is the North Shore’s prime — calm water, long light, June through September and the holidays.
What gets booked here
Princeville’s rhythm, in order of frequency:
- Stay Chef weeks — estates sleeping 8–16, from $1,100/day + groceries at cost
- Arrival-night Signature dinners — $150–$250/guest, groceries inside the band
- Estate-week buyouts — one chef, one contract, event nights crewed at published rates
- Date Nights and elopement dinners — $650–$950 fixed
Logistics, Princeville-specific
The shore surcharge ($50–$75) covers the drive with a cooler and a kit; it’s on the quote’s own line. Gate access and house rules settle before service day. December compresses: holiday weeks book months out and price honestly.
Sourcing is named, not implied: goat cheese from Kunana Dairy, greens from the Saturday Hanalei Farmers’ Market and its growers, Kauaʻi grass-fed beef, day-boat fish when the boats go out.
Questions, answered
Signature dinners $150–$250 per guest with groceries inside the band, plus the $50–$75 shore surcharge, 20% service, and GET up to 4.7120% on their own lines. Stay Chef weeks run from $1,100 a day plus groceries at cost.
Princeville kitchens are among the island’s best — full ranges, real counters. We confirm the kitchen before quoting and bring the kit it lacks.
June through September is the North Shore’s prime: a month ahead is comfortable, two is safer for estate weeks. The 50% deposit locks the date after you’ve seen the written quote.
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Get a written quote
Kauaʻi runs inquiry-first: you tell us the table, we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total. We never hold a date we can’t crew.