Chef Darnell Japp

Private Chef In Cochrane

I am a professional chef with 19 years experience. I have worked in high end fine dining kitchens as well as in home catering. I graduated cooking school at SAIT in 2003 and have my red seal certification. Here are are a few of my best culinary accolades:

#60 on the St. Pellegrino Top 100 restaurants in the World, 2010 Executive Sous Chef Rouge.

Best New Restaurant in Calgary by Avenue Magazine, Avec Bistro Executive Chef 2012.

Best Fine Dining in Calgary, Where magazine 2019 Rouge Executive Chef

Top 20 Restaurants in Calgary, Avenue Magazine 2019 Rouge Executive Chef

#89 Restaurant in Canada, Canada’s Top 100, 2019 Rouge Executive Chef

Also, I recently competed in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party 2019 and received a bronze medal. I am WSET Level 2 certified in wine and spirits.

I enjoy creating custom menus to cater to guests needs.

For me, cooking is...

My life. I started cooking at 15 years old and I have never stopped. I love creating complex flavours and seeing the guest enjoy there experience.

I learned to cook at...

Home with my mom. Then restaurants, then professionally at SAIT.

A cooking secret...

Set your standards higher than anyone else can reach.

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Chef Darnell's reviews

4.94

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21 services

Chef Darnell did an amazing job. Every meal was 10/10. Exactly as he planned. Cleaned up everything he used and was very polite. 10/10 would book him again .

Chef Darnell was so accommodating and easy to work with. The food was excellent and the guests had the best time! I would highly recommend him for whatever event you have planned.

Chef Darnell provided us with an amazing private chef experience. During Covid times, it is difficult to find ways to celebrate special occasions. Chef Darnell exceeded our expectations and worked hard to create a meal that was appealing to everyone that also considered numerous food restrictions. It was a special evening we will not forget! Thank-you Darnell! Please know we will be recommending you to family and friends.

Darnell was lovely and his food was delicious! He was prompt, but flexible (based on us) and Topped up anything we really loved. The ruffle aoile was to die for...legit,..I wish he would have left us a tub of it! 10/10, would recommend!

An awesome experience with an awesome chef! Creative dishes with quality ingredients.

Awesome will book him again

Chef Darnell blew our minds! The best culinary experience we’ve ever had. The food was beautiful to look at and was so, so delicious. We will definitely do this again. We can’t wait to do this again but next time we are going to just let Chef Darnell use full creative license and choose all the dishes! Can’t wait!

Darnell provided a fantastic experience for the evening. The food, presentation and overall service were great! I would definitely recommend Darnell for a special experience!

We can highly recommend Darnell. He was professional ,but also friendly and happy to answer questions about what he was cooking and what types of herbs he was using, this helped with looking forward to the different dishes. Visually all the dishes were amazing, but the best part was how they tasted. Everything was perfect including the pacing & timing of each course. Everything was cleaned up before he left, there's was nothing that wasn't perfection!

Incredible

Absolutely amazing!! Chef Japp went above and beyond to make it a special event for us. Would definitely use again.