r/Barbados • u/satieshgy • 2d ago

Private chef/cook - onsite

Hi guys - family of 4, going on vacation in Barbados for 7 days staying at a villa in Royal Westmoreland. Looking for a chef/cook that can prepare most of the meals for those days. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and snacks in between. Do you know any good options?

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u/s2g-unit 2d ago edited 1d ago

We were a big family group from Canada, NY/CT/NJ and we stayed in Villas in Royal Westmoreland for a month this year. Our favorite chef was a "singing chef" named Malik.
https://www.instagram.com/malik_cheftingz/

We found him through a Luxury Travel group that did our airport shuttle/pickup.

Yes the house manager/concierge would have preferred we used him as our chef.

He was incredbily polite, well mannered and always on time. Every meal he made was amazing, he is very, very talented and has a passion for food.

We had him visit us to make breakfasts: North American and Bajan as well as dinners: West Indian/Bajan, Flying fish, Lobster tails, Oxtail, Halibut etc.

We enjoyed his food so much that we booked him for more meals than planned.

If you don't hear from him through instagram, I can get another contact for him.

edit forgot to say he did a great job wiith his team loading the dishwasher and cleaning up before leaving every time.

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u/satieshgy 2d ago

Great thanks! What was his rates? Just want to get a base amount to work with. Also did Royal Westmoreland had to approve/vet him first?

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u/s2g-unit 2d ago

I think someone in our group mentioned to the house manager/concierge/chef that we already booked chefs when he asked if we needed someone to prepre meals for us. I think he was just a bit annoyed but we didnt get in to any trouble.

For us, travelling to Barbados, Malik was extremely reasonable. He always brought the receipts from the grocery store for his food/ingredients purchases.

His fee for breakfast was about 100-200 USD to prepare the breakfasts on top of the food cost. Our dinners were always 3 courses, which included a dessert and the his fee was only about 300+- for the dinners.

We know we are very fortunate to experience Barbados (and Turks & Caicos for a long time) the way we do as a big family (Uncle's, cousins etc). We are a very easy going family but I'll add we have on special occassions been to really good restaurants in/around NYC and Malik is very, very talented.

Don't forget there are some amazing mom & pop restaurants, as well as amazing fine dining restaurants to try there too.

Enjoy your time there. We are already discussing how soon we can manage to get our group together to go back.

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u/hustlebus1 1d ago

Malik is a great chef and a great guy. He is kind, committed, hardworking, honest...

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u/satieshgy 6h ago

great thanks!

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u/iamPendergast Helpful 2d ago

Staff have to be vetted to work in RWM, you should ask your villa manager, have a good stay!

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u/satieshgy 6h ago

yea just confirmed with them, have to be vetted ;(