Carmine Guglielmino
- Brooklyn
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Reviews (4)
Personal chef recommendation
Are you a busy family struggling to keep up with meal prep? Chef Carmine is a personal chef who has been helping my family weekly for over a year prepare delicious, healthy meals that I can heat in the microwave and have dinner on the table in minutes. Early in the week, I provide him a list of dishes we'd like for the week, within hours he turns around a grocery list (or he can even order the items for you, if you don't have time), and then he arrives and preps the food while I'm at work. I come home to home-cooked meals the whole family loves. I have health-related food restrictions, and what I love about Carmine is he's excited to try new preparations to meet my needs (on any given week we experiment with dishes that are vegan or plant-based, low sodium but high flavor, etc), and he also remembers my kids' preferences as well. Of course, he's available for events and parties as well, but we've never used him this way. His services are a good value for my family, especially when you take into account the time we save in the kitchen, and the fact we're probably healthier, since our meals aren't prepared in a last-minute rush at the end of a work day. I highly recommend.Recommending our 1/week 'personal chef' - game-changing!
Thanks to a recommendation on PSP a few months back, I contacted Chef Carmine about coming to cook for our family one day a week. We are a busy family of five, and meal planning, food shopping, meal prep, storing meals/components for the week, etc. had become a stressor. Chef Carmine has been an amazing boost for us: He comes one day a week, prepares 4-5 delicious meals, carefully stores the meals/components, and cleans up any trace of having cooked in our kitchen. He reaches out the week before with "what do you want to eat this week?" (does it get any better than that?), one or two text exchanges later he has a great menu plan, then he actually orders the ingredients for you (FreshDirect in our case, on our account), follows up to make sure everything is on hand, and then shows up and cooks. He is cheerful and lovely and engages with our kids on what they want to eat, trying new things, etc. Our family's official favorite day of the week is the day Carmine comes. My kids come home from school and there is some yummy snack left out for them, we have meals everyone likes for family dinner, we stretch the components and leftovers for school lunch, my kids have expanded their palettes (a little) - I really can't say enough about what Carmine has brought to our family. Carmine has room for one or two more regular clients in his schedule. I highly recommend! No affiliation other than a happy customer.Personal Chef available to change your life
Our personal chef, Carmine Guglielmino, has an opening on Saturdays or Sundays (preferably flexible) for a new family. Carmine comes to our home once a week and does meal prep for us. This meal prep saves us so much time so we have time for other things (like spending time with our toddler, exercising, or yknow, showering). For us, he makes 3 entrees that have multiple portions so it keeps us full and happy for a lot of the week. He prefers to work off of the D/N/R/F/Q trains since weekend MTA can be unpredictable.What if someone cooked all your meals?
I'm writing to shout out a local personal chef who is saving our lives right now. Chef Carmine is truly amazing and if anyone is looking for this kind of support at home, I recommend calling him at 917-415-7718. I have no financial connection to him whatsoever, I just think he's a terrific cook. He started working with our family about a year before the pandemic, coming weekly to prepare all our meals for the week. He makes the meal plan, loads all the groceries into a Fresh Direct order, then cooks and cleans after himself. Now that he and I are fully vaccinated we've invited him back, and it's been so incredibly helpful. The meals he chooses for my family (with my input) are delicious and also down-to-earth. We range in age from 1 to 44 and every single family member eats all of his food, and with gusto. There is no complaining from the kiddos! And I have some serious food restrictions- he somehow avoids all my forbidden ingredients and still makes it all delicious. I love knowing that all soups and stews are made with homemade stock and there are no surprises in there.... His prices are incredibly reasonable - way, way under market as far as I can tell. Even so, I'm the first to admit that it's a tremendous privilege to have access to this kind of support. Chef Carmine is professionally trained and has worked both in restaurants and private settings. He's catered special occasion meals for my friends and my office and all the food and desserts he's ever made for me have been amazing. If this is a possibility for your family, I recommend him wholeheartedly.
