Private Chef · Park City, Utah

Private Chef
in Park City, UtahSundance Residency · Ski Week · Bay Area Compound

CIA-trained private chef for your Empire Pass, Colony, or Promontory residence. Sundance Film Festival 10-day chef-in-residence stays. Christmas and Presidents' Week ski residencies. Bay Area tech-family compound hosting. All-Inclusive pricing. 24-hour proposal turnaround. NDAs standard during festival week.

Call or text: (516) 996-1202
Email: steve@milehighcook.net
Serving Park City & the Wasatch Back
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Private Chef in Park City, Utah·A Local Lens

Private Chef in Park City
for the Sundance week and the Bay Area family compound

Park City private-chef work runs on three rhythms. Sundance Film Festival is the single largest private-event week in the Utah calendar. Mid-to-late January, ~10 days. Studios, production companies, talent reps, and festival juries rent Empire Pass and The Colony at White Pine Canyon estates at $50k-$200k+ per week and bring chefs in for the duration.

The brief is film-industry hosting at Bay Area dietary standards. Vegan, gluten-free, kosher, sushi-grade, and dairy-free in parallel on the same dinner. Christmas-New Year and Presidents' Week drive ski residencies at Empire Pass and The Colony. Park City's third rhythm is Bay Area tech-family compound hosting — SF and LA residents working remotely from Promontory and Glenwild during school breaks.

MileHighCook runs in-residence chef programs across Empire Pass, The Colony at White Pine Canyon, Promontory, Glenwild, Silver Creek, Old Town historic homes, Tuhaye, and the Stein Eriksen and Montage Residences. Empire Pass: slopeside Deer Valley luxury. The Colony: 4,600 acres, the largest private ski community in the US.

The cuisine vocabulary is Bay-Area-benchmarked. Wine-pairing focus. Wagyu and dry-aged beef. Sushi-grade fish — Japanese technique is part of the trained palate. Utah-sourced lamb and trout. Mediterranean during summer. SLC airport is 35 minutes away — the fastest mountain-market access in the country, keeping client travel and specialty sourcing responsive. Request a custom proposal →

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By the Numbers
Booking Window
6-12 mo
for Sundance week & Christmas residencies; 4-8 weeks for one-off
Guest Range
2-20
intimate dinners through 10-day Sundance residencies
Neighborhoods Served
Empire PassThe ColonyPromontoryGlenwildOld TownTuhaye
Private Chef in Park City, Utah

In-Residence Cooking,
Sundance Week & Bay Area Standard

MileHighCook's Park City work is in your slopeside residence, your studio-rented Sundance estate, your Promontory ranch, or your Empire Pass home. Not in a banquet hall. Not on any public calendar during festival week.

We design menus the day before service. We source through SLC's specialty supply chain — one of the fastest-turn networks in the Mountain West. We cook in your kitchen. Daily breakfast through dinner during multi-day residencies. The format is whatever your stay actually is.

Five formats we run regularly. A 14-person Sundance chef-in-residence stay at a studio-rented Empire Pass estate, with a daily-rotating guest list and parallel vegan, gluten-free, kosher, and dairy-free programs. A 12-person three-generation Christmas residency at a Colony home. An 8-person Bay Area tech-family compound dinner over spring break. A 6-person Sundance Institute Director's Lab speaker dinner. An intimate 4-guest Promontory anniversary. All-Inclusive pricing covers chef time, ingredients, prep, service, and end-of-stay cleanup. NDAs are standard during festival week.

Planning a stay in Park City? Get a custom quote → All-Inclusive proposal within 24 hours of your call. NDAs welcomed.

What's Included

All-Inclusive Means Everything

One number. Full transparency. No add-ons after the fact.

✓ Chef fee and all culinary labor
✓ All grocery shopping and ingredients
✓ Prep, cooking, and plating
✓ Professional table service
✓ Plate, glassware, linen & equipment rentals (when needed)
✓ Complete post-event cleanup
Private Chef Services in Park City

Sundance Residency, Ski Week & Bay Area Compound

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Sundance Week Chef-in-Residence

10-14 day Sundance Film Festival chef-in-residence stays at studio-rented Empire Pass and The Colony at White Pine Canyon estates. Film-industry hosting at Bay Area dietary standards — vegan, gluten-free, kosher, dairy-free, and sushi-grade programs running in parallel on the same dinner. Books 6-9 months ahead.

Mid-Late January
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Ski Week Residency

Christmas-New Year and Presidents' Week 10-21 day multi-day ski residencies at Empire Pass and The Colony at White Pine Canyon (the largest private ski community in the US at 4,600 acres). Daily breakfast through dinner with après-ski pacing, sophisticated wine programs, family compound flexibility for rotating guest counts.

10-21 Days
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Bay Area Tech-Family Compound

Year-round but heavy during summer and school-break windows. Bay Area tech-family hosting at Promontory, Glenwild, and Empire Pass — SF and LA tech and entertainment principals running multi-day family compound stays, recurring annual offsites for tech firms, post-Sundance Institute lab dinners.

School-Break Cadence
Sample Inspirations

Every Menu, Custom-Built From Scratch

These are starting points, not packages. Most caterers and private chefs lock you into a small set of pre-built menus. We don't. Every MileHighCook menu is designed around your guests, your venue, your season, and your story. The dishes below are inspirations — what we might build for you.

Wagyu New York
Mountain Steakhouse, Elevated

Wagyu New York

Dry-aged Wagyu, charred allium purée, smoked bone marrow jus, root-vegetable hash. Could be reimagined with seasonal Colorado lamb or 14-day dry-aged ribeye.

Hokkaido Scallop Crudo
Coastal · Light · Refined

Hokkaido Scallop Crudo

Day-flown scallop, yuzu-kosho, finger lime, shiso oil. As one example of what's possible with sushi-grade fish flown in for a private dinner.

Black Truffle Risotto
Italian · Indulgent · Seasonal

Black Truffle Risotto

Carnaroli rice, aged Parmigiano, fresh black truffle shaved tableside (when in season). One direction for an Italian-inspired evening.

Whole-Roasted Cauliflower
Plant-Forward · Vibrant · Seasonal

Whole-Roasted Cauliflower

Heirloom cauliflower, brown butter dukkah, herbed labneh, charred lemon. A vegan-capable centerpiece that holds its own at any table.

Crispy Duck Breast
French Technique · Dramatic Plating

Crispy Duck Breast

Crispy-skin duck, cherry gastrique, parsnip purée, pickled mustard seed. As a starting point for a plated multi-course winter dinner.

Caviar Service
Cocktail Hour · Show-Stopping

Caviar Service

Royal Ossetra, traditional accoutrements, blini, crème fraîche. One of countless ways we can elevate a cocktail hour or welcome reception.

These are inspirations, not menus. Tell us about your event and we'll design something custom — yours, not ours.

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Tell Us About Your Park City Stay

A few quick details and we'll respond within 24 hours with a fully detailed, All-Inclusive proposal. Sundance week chef-in-residence stays, ski-week residencies, Bay Area tech-family compounds, and Sundance Institute Lab dinners all welcome. NDAs are standard during festival week.

Or call us directly: (516) 996-1202 · Most clients prefer a 15-minute conversation.

How It Works

From Inquiry to Unforgettable Event

A premium, white-glove process from your first message to the final tasting. Built around real conversations — not marketplaces or generic templates.

01

Inquire

Submit the form above or call us directly.

Marketplaces send your inquiry to 5 vendors at once.

02

Conversation

A 15-minute call with Chef Steve to understand your event, venue, guests, and vision.

Resort F&B teams typically work through a sales coordinator.

03

Proposal

Within 24 hours: fully detailed, All-Inclusive proposal. Custom-built around your event.

Most catering proposals take 5-10 days to assemble.

04

Lock In

Once approved: structured questionnaire, contract, and (if requested) tasting scheduled.

High-volume operators often skip the questionnaire entirely.

05

Deposit & Schedule

A deposit secures your date. Walkthrough, final menu refinement, and service planning.

Concierge services often add a 20-25% markup.

The MileHighCook Difference

Three Principles, Every Event

While most marketplaces, resort F&B teams, and volume operators rely on coordinators or generic templates, every MileHighCook event is built around three principles.

One Chef. One Owner.
One Standard.

Chef Steve oversees every event personally. Not a coordinator, not a sub-contractor. The person who plans your event is the person responsible for it.

Custom From Scratch

Every menu designed around your guests, venue, season, and event style. No package menus. No locked pricing tiers. Yours, not ours.

All-Inclusive, 24-Hour

Full proposal within 24 hours of your call. One number, no add-ons. Chef fee, ingredients, service, equipment, and cleanup — all included.

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Park City Private Chef FAQ

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Sundance Film Festival week (mid-late January, ~10 days) is the single highest-rate window of the Park City year — studios, production companies, and talent representatives lock chef availability 6-9 months ahead, and rates reflect the demand peak. For multi-day residencies during Sundance, Christmas-New Year, or Presidents' Week, pricing is structured per-day and includes chef time, all ingredients sourced through SLC's responsive specialty supply chain, prep, daily service, and end-of-stay cleanup. Day rates scale with party size, meal cadence, parallel dietary menu count (Sundance dietary spreadsheets are extensive — vegan, gluten-free, kosher, and dairy-free running simultaneously is routine), and any specialty asks. We'll detail everything in the All-Inclusive proposal.
Yes — Sundance week chef-in-residence is a defining Park City category for our team. The typical brief is a studio, production company, or talent representative renting an Empire Pass or Colony at White Pine Canyon estate at $50k-$200k+ for the duration of the festival, with a chef brought in for the 10-14 days of programming. Daily breakfast through dinner, rotating guest counts (festival juries, talent, distributors, agents come and go through the week), and a dietary spreadsheet that runs vegan / gluten-free / kosher / dairy-free / sushi-grade in parallel on the same evening. NDAs are standard for festival week. We've executed this pattern repeatedly and the demand exceeds what most operators can serve at quality.
Yes — Christmas-New Year and Presidents' Week are our two highest-demand non-Sundance windows, and 10-21 day multi-generational family hosting is a defining category. The Colony at White Pine Canyon (the largest private ski community in the US at 4,600 acres) and Empire Pass slopeside residences are the dominant venue types. We can scale chef coverage across the window, run daily breakfast-through-dinner programming with après-ski pacing, and handle rotating houseguest counts as family members come and go. Many of our Park City households are standing year-over-year arrangements with the same families.
Our All-Inclusive proposal covers chef time, all ingredients (SLC's specialty supply chain is the most responsive in the Mountain West — sushi-grade fish, Wagyu, dry-aged proteins, French and Italian imports, kosher and parallel-program sourcing all routine), prep, cooking, plating, professional table service when staffing for larger dinners, equipment when needed for vacation-rental kitchens, travel across the Wasatch Back, and end-of-stay or end-of-meal cleanup. No hidden fees or surcharges.
Yes — NDAs are standard during Sundance week, not the exception. Studio and production company hosting, talent representative residencies, festival jury accommodations, and brand-activation private dinners all routinely require discretion clauses. Outside of Sundance, NDAs continue to be common for Bay Area tech-family compound hosting, hedge fund and PE annual offsites at Stein Eriksen and Montage, and high-discretion family-office hosting. Tell us your standards and we'll execute accordingly.
Bay Area dietary standards are the baseline at Park City, not a special accommodation. The client base routinely brings detailed parallel-dietary spreadsheets — a single dinner can land plated five ways for a household where guests are doing vegan, gluten-free, kosher, dairy-free, and a sushi-grade-only program. We design menus around the spreadsheet rather than retrofit it on top of a standard menu. Sourcing through SLC's specialty supply chain handles the parallel-program ingredient demand without the lead-time pain that would surface in more remote markets.
Park City sits at 7,000 ft and altitude affects protein cook timing, baked-good rise, reduction rates, and multi-course pacing. Our chef team is trained on altitude-adjusted technique. Across a 10-21 day residency this matters for sourdough morning service, steak rest times, soufflé behavior, and how reductions concentrate — the kind of detail you don't notice when it's right but a sophisticated palate immediately notices when it isn't.
Yes — Sundance Institute year-round programming (Director's Lab, Screenwriter's Lab, Theatre Lab) sits separately from the Festival but drives a steady film-industry chef calendar. Lab participant dinners, mentor hosting, and donor-circle dinners are recurring categories. The Sundance Institute is technically based at Sundance Mountain Resort in Provo Canyon (45 minutes from Park City), but Lab-related hosting frequently extends into Park City when participants are staying at Park City rentals.
We serve Empire Pass, The Colony at White Pine Canyon, Promontory, Glenwild, Silver Creek, Old Town Park City, Tuhaye, the Stein Eriksen Residences, and the Montage Deer Valley Residences. Travel across the Wasatch Back is built into the All-Inclusive proposal — you won't see distance surcharges added separately. Deer Valley itself is also part of our footprint — see our Deer Valley page.
Multi-day Park City residencies run on real life, and Sundance week residencies in particular run on rapidly shifting plans — talent moves, screening schedules change, brand activations get added or canceled. We build that flexibility in. Daily menus and meal counts can adjust on 24 hours' notice, sometimes less during festival week. For larger structural changes (extending the stay, scaling up to a brand-activation dinner, adding a second chef for a peak Festival night), we'll re-quote transparently.
The honest answer for Park City: it depends on guest count and where the meal happens. Eight to fourteen guests at a private residence almost always points toward a private chef — the cooking happens in front of guests, the menu adjusts to the table, and the cleanup is part of the engagement. Once you're above thirty guests or the venue is a private club or off-site, catering's logistics infrastructure starts pulling its weight. If you're still weighing private chef vs. catering, the comparison page lays out the tradeoffs across five dimensions and includes a short decision tool.
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