PARIS — Parisians yearning for haute cuisine dining since the COVID-19 pandemic closed down restaurants have found an alternative: private chefs who serve up meals in customers’ homes.
Fatiha El-Kaddaoui is a trained chef who takes bookings from private individuals, brings her ingredients to their home and uses their equipment to prepare and serve restaurant-quality dishes.
She was busy before the pandemic. But now, she said, she is having to turn away up to 30 bookings per month.
“There’s very, very big demand,” she said. “This demand exists because those people used to go to restaurants one, two, three times a week or even more.”
Shared moment at home
On Friday, El-Kaddaou…
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