A chef's choice private dining experience is exactly what the name suggests: the chef — not the guest — decides what's on the menu. No list of options to pick from, no courses to mix and match. Elie designs the entire chef's choice experience around your occasion, your group, and the season. It's a concept rooted in the Japanese omakase tradition, brought to life in the most intimate setting imaginable: your own home.

The chef's choice concept

Chef's choice is a dining philosophy where the chef's creative authority is complete. When given full latitude to build a menu, a chef can create something a standard à-la-carte restaurant simply cannot: a genuine gastronomic progression — flavours that build on each other, textures that contrast, an arc of intensity that rises and resolves with intention.

It's culinary storytelling. Every course is a chapter. The amuse-bouche sets the tone; the main courses develop the theme; the dessert provides resolution. When you order from a menu, you choose individual dishes in isolation. With chef's choice, you receive a narrative.

At Elieatable, this concept is central to every experience. There is no menu to browse, no checkboxes to fill. Elie designs the evening for you — and that design is specific to your group, your occasion, and what he finds inspiring at the market that week.

How it works, step by step

The process is simple and designed to remove all friction. Here's what it looks like in practice:

  1. Booking — you provide your date, guest count, and the occasion. Nothing more at this stage.
  2. Dietary restrictions — you communicate all allergies, intolerances, and important preferences. This is the one moment where you shape the menu.
  3. Menu design — Elie builds the menu based on your group, the season, and his current creative direction. You won't receive it in advance — that's deliberate.
  4. The evening — Elie arrives with all the ingredients, sets up in your kitchen, and begins cooking. Dishes arrive at the pace of the evening, not rushed, not dragged.
  5. Service — each course is presented with a brief note about the concept or key ingredients if you'd like. The discovery is complete and continuous.

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Why not choosing is actually a form of freedom

It's counterintuitive, but the absence of choice can be genuinely liberating. When you order from a restaurant menu, you make compromises by default: you choose what seems safe, what you already know you like, what's familiar. You avoid the unknown — which means you also miss the unexpected.

With chef's choice, that resistance disappears. You trust the chef. You accept the surprise. And often, you discover flavour combinations you would never have ordered for yourself — which become the most memorable moments of the evening.

There are no wrong choices because there are no choices. There is only the experience the chef designed for you — calibrated, intentional, and personal. Guests who approach it with openness invariably leave with dishes they didn't know they'd love but now can't forget.

Elie's Asian fusion approach

What you can consistently anticipate is Elie's culinary register: refined Asian fusion cuisine, drawing from Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian traditions, executed with contemporary fine dining technique and precision.

Expect deep umami flavours, precise presentations, and deliberate contrasts — raw and cooked, hot and cold, crisp and yielding. Each course is part of a progression designed to take you somewhere, not merely to fill the plate. Visual presentation is integral to the experience; every dish is plated with the same intention a painter applies to composition, because a truly memorable meal begins with the eyes.

The Asian fusion approach also allows for remarkable dietary flexibility. Umami-forward cooking doesn't depend on any single protein or technique — which means vegetarian, gluten-free, and shellfish-free menus can be executed with the same creative ambition as any other.

Is chef's choice right for your group?

Yes — as long as you communicate your restrictions clearly at booking. Chef's choice is not a dietary challenge or a test of adventurousness. It's not a complete surprise with no safeguards. Elie systematically integrates what you've told him about your group.

If your group is vegetarian, the menu is vegetarian. If someone has a severe shellfish allergy, no shellfish appears — anywhere in the progression. If you prefer to keep the heat level accessible, Elie accounts for that. Chef's choice is the chef's creative freedom within the parameters you define — and that's exactly what makes it both genuinely exciting and completely safe to trust.

The evenings that begin with "I'm a bit nervous about not choosing" most often end with "that was the most memorable dinner I've had in years." Book your experience here and find out for yourself.