At your table
Chef Dinners
A custom menu, food and wine planning, and a dinner in the home you have chosen for your stay.
Explore private dinnersYour private chef in Aspen
Four decades in the kitchen. Food and wine, together.
Chef Chris Mitchum brings four decades of culinary experience and sommelier training to private dinners and chef demos in Aspen and the mountain valleys, plus private jet dining focused on Rifle and Eagle / Vail.
Chef Chris Mitchum
At your table.
At your table.
01 Culinary Institute of America graduate
02 Sommelier training
03 Serving Aspen and Snowmass
04 Chef-led planning through cleanup
Start with the stay
Chef dinners. Chef demos. Private jets.
You do not need a menu before you inquire. Start with the dates, the people, and the way you want the stay to feel. Chris can help shape the right service from there.
In the kitchen
Chef Demos
Cook, taste, and ask questions. An afternoon with Chris gives your group dishes and techniques to take home.
Explore chef demosFor your flight
Private Jet Dinners
Menus for Rifle and Eagle / Vail departures, with Aspen as a secondary service location. Plan breakfast, lunch, or dinner around your passengers and flight.
Explore private jet diningView all services, including prepared meals, wine, and rides
For a longer visit
A food plan for the whole mountain stay.
Plan the meals you want handled before the group arrives. The scope is shaped around your dates, your home base, and how much of the week you want handled.
- One planning conversation for the stay
- Arrival-ready food or selected prepared meals
- One private dinner as the gathering point
- Shopping, kitchen work, service, and cleanup scoped up front
A clear next step
From dates to dinner.
Share your dates and the kind of experience you have in mind. Chris helps shape the menu, wine, service, and timing around your group.
Share the basics
Dates, location, party size, occasion, and the service you are considering.
Confirm fit
Chris checks availability and whether the request fits the way he works.
Shape the plan
Talk through the people, the stay, preferences, logistics, and what should feel effortless.
Gather
With the plan handled, the group gets to be together instead of managing the meal.
Food that belongs to the room it enters.
A look at Chris’s cooking. Explore the sample menus, then make the dinner your own.
Meet Chef Chris Mitchum
A chef’s eye on the whole evening.
Chris's role is larger than arriving with a menu. The early conversation, food, wine perspective, pace, kitchen realities, service, and cleanup all shape whether a meal feels like part of the stay or another thing the host has to manage.
A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Chris has cooked in New York, Hawaii, California, Colorado, and Nashville. He brings four decades of experience to the table, along with a love of skiing, wine, and time spent with good company.
Culinary training
Culinary Institute of America graduate
Wine perspective
Sommelier training
From a culinary partner
Aspen Food & Wine Classic
Read the testimonial“Chef Chris was a pleasure to work with during the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. He was thorough with details and questions from the outset, ensuring that every aspect of the event was carefully planned and executed. He took the time to participate in a pre-event walkthrough, which demonstrated his professionalism and commitment to a successful event. Throughout the event, Chris was efficient with his time, extremely organized, and easy to collaborate with. His preparation and attention to detail made the entire process seamless for our team. I would not hesitate to work with him again and would highly recommend his services to others looking for a reliable and professional culinary partner.”
Julie HardmanAspen Chamber Resort Association
Availability conversation
Tell us about the stay.
Tell Chris when and where you need him, how many people are coming, and which service you have in mind.
For an inquiry today, call 760-285-3469 or email [email protected].