Chef Elia Muñoz Carulla

Private Chef In London

Elia Muñoz Carulla is an Alumni of Le Cordon Bleu London. She has been dedicated to the world of food industry for over 10 years with experience in catering, events as BBC GOOD FOOD SHOW and what she is more enthusiastic about: being a private chef.

Born in Madrid, she discovered her great passion in traditional home cooking as a child, always being the little helper to her mother and grandmother whom to this date, she considers the best cooks.

Spending summers in the seaside town of Valencia and working in the family restaurant, she decided to obtain her culinary school degree in Madrid, whilst gaining experience in catering and events.

Willing to discover the traditional Italian cuisine, she went to Vicenza (North Italy) and study at the University of Taste at which she met her fiancé, with whom she later together decided to pursue a professional career in London by working as a chef at restaurants and attending Cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu. She is also specialised in handmade fresh pasta at "La vecchia scuola bolognese" (the old Bolognese school in Bologna, Italy)

Here, Elia discovered her true passion for being private chef, focusing on traditional and modern Spanish, Italian and French food culture, using exquisite hand picked ingredients.

For me, cooking is...

my passion, I like to create every dish from scratch

I learned to cook at...

in my grandmother house with my mom, always around in the kitchen

A cooking secret...

Ingredients are the most important, organic and all the vegetables from my garden

My menus

Roast festive

STARTER

All inclusive

3 canapés to discuss with the chef

FIRST COURSE

Choose 1 dish

Gratinated prawns and scallops in a shallot sauce , asparagus and thyme

Celeriac veloute , wild mushrooms and white truffle oil

Handmade tortelli filled with pumpkin and ricotta, mint and peas velouté

MAIN COURSE

Choose 1 dish

Roast Chicken , filled with fricassee of aubergine and tomato with roasted chunky potatoes and mushroom sauce

Parmigiana di melanzane with baby roasted potatoes, caramelised carrots (oven baked aubergine, tomato and vegetarian cheese with tomato passata)

Roast meal (beef fillet /pork belly or chicken ) all the trimmings, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

Roast turkey breast filled with sage and onion. Duck fat roasted potatoes , caramelised carrots , honey glazed parsnips, chestnut and bacon Brussels sprouts. Bread sauce and cranberry sauce

Welsh rack of lamb, gratin dauphinois potatoes, grain mustard gravy and seasonal vegetables

DESSERT

Choose 1 dish

Apple and berries crumble , icecream

Sticky toffee pudding

Eton mess

Bakewell tart frangipane with cherry compote

Cheese board, biscuits and grapes

Christmas delight

STARTER

All inclusive

Blinis, salmon gravlax , horseradish cream and dill

Pigs in blankets

Handmade fresh pasta filled with ricotta and black truffle , parmesan sauce and porcini powder

FIRST COURSE

All inclusive

Sharing plate: oven baked Camembert, duck liver pate with sourdough bread

Celeriac veloute , wild mushrooms and white truffle oil

Gratinated scallops in a shallot sauce , asparagus and thyme

MAIN COURSE

Choose 1 dish

Roast turkey breast filled with sage and onion. Duck fat roasted potatoes , caramelised carrots , honey glazed parsnips, chestnut and bacon Brussels sprouts. Bread sauce and cranberry sauce

Oven baked (whole) turkey , Duck fat roasted potatoes , caramelised carrots , honey glazed parsnips, chestnut and bacon Brussels sprouts. Bread sauce and cranberry sauce

Roasted beef fillet thinly sliced, Duck fat roasted potatoes , caramelised carrots , honey glazed parsnips, chestnut and bacon Brussels sprouts

Roasted pork belly , Duck fat roasted potatoes , caramelised carrots , honey glazed parsnips, chestnut and bacon Brussels sprouts

DESSERT

All inclusive

Chocolate Yule log

Christmas pudding

Chef favourite

STARTER

Choose 1 dish

3 canapés to discuss with the chef

FIRST COURSE

Choose 1 dish

Salmon tartare, spring onion, beetroot and red chillies

Celeriac veloute , wild mushrooms and white truffle oil

Risotto Allo zafferano (saffron rissoto)

Beetroot risotto, burrata and hazelnuts

Handmade Black truffle tortelloni, wild mushroom , parmesan sauce and porcini

Tuna tartare, carpaccio of tomatoes, lime, shallot and macedoine of avocado

Handmade tortelli filled with pumpkin and ricotta, mint and peas velouté

Peruvian Sea bass ceviche, lime, shallot, coriander and avocado, lamb lettuce

Gratinated prawns and scallops in a shallot sauce , asparagus and thyme

Handmade ravioli , filled with spinach and ricotta , cherry tomato sauce And mozzarella pearls and burrata salad with pesto sauce to share

MAIN COURSE

Choose 1 dish

Slow cook beef , baby roasted potatoes , chargrilled asparagus and caramelised carrots

Beef fillet tagliata , baby potatoes, chimichurri sauce , wild rocket and parmesan shavings

Gorgonzola and pear risotto

Welsh rack of lamb, gratin dauphinois potatoes, grain mustard gravy and seasonal vegetables

Chicken ballotine, filled with fricassee of aubergine and tomato with roasted chunky potatoes and mushroom sauce

Scottish beef fillet, chunky roasted potatoes, green pepper sauce and seasonal vegetables

Fish to discuss with the chef , gratin dauphinois potatoes , caramelised carrots and beans

Pan fried lamb cutlets , roasted chunky potatoes , caramelised carrots and parsnips , green beans

Chicken supreme , creamy mash potato and celeriac , spinach puree and veggies

DESSERT

Choose 1 dish

Chocolate mousse, berries, berry coulis, creme chantillí

Creme brûlée

Tiramisu

Pears in red wine

Crema catalana

Apple tart

Mango and passion fruit pannacotta

Almond tart with vanilla icecream

Lemon meringue pie

Vanilla pannacotta with raspberry coulis

Tarte au citron with rapsberries

Sticky toffee pudding

Chocolate and walnuts brownie with vanilla icecream

Vanilla cheesecake with warm blueberry coulis and icecream

Fruit salad with creme chantilly in a side

Apple and berries crumble , icecream or custard

Cheese board, biscuits and grapes

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Chef Elia's reviews

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108 services

Elia was an absolute delight. From the moment I engaged with her she was attentive, responsive and very helpful. She offered a phone call to talk through preferences and allergies to help create the perfect menu for me and my guests. She was open to my changes, made wonderful suggestions and even suggested good wines to pair with the dishes. When she arrived at the location, she was diligent, friendly and so professional! My guest and I loved having her there and she kept the atmosphere alive! From start to finish it was such a pleasure, the food was delicious and presented beautifully! We had a wonderful time and would highly recommend Elia!

Elias was an absolute goddess in the kitchen!! She was incredibly friendly and the food was to die for!!!

Thank you Elia, your food was amazing and you helped make the whole evening go perfectly.

Chef Elia was the perfect thing for my wife and I to celebrate our anniversary. One of our favourite things is to go out for a food related experience and as we recently welcomed twins to the world, this limited our options. Elia recreated that experience in our home with the personal touch of offering to flex course times around our little ones and having a great mixture of being invisible when appropriate and engaging as well.

We hadn't heard of Take a Chef before but decided to give it a try for a family celebration meal. Elia was the first to engage and from that initial contact was superb. Her communication was quick, questions answered with ease. Flexible with timing as we worked to choose dishes from her sumptuous menu. It was very easy to arrange. She arrived on time and created her magic with no fanfare just sheer passion and love for her job. We chose the scallops and prawns along with ravioli to start....both were amazing. Slow cooked beef for the main which was melt in the mouth delish. Dessert was wonderful. A really fantastic experience created by Elia AND she cleared the kitchen! WOW. Definitely recommend this service and if you can nab Elia then you've hit the jackpot.

Excellent services - Chef Elia was punctual and prepared the dishes on site. She provided superb dishes and she was flexible. Plenty of choices and the canapés were great. Definitely recommended and would love to engage her services again!

Elia was incredible. Punctual, professional, and so discreet. Because of our large party she brought an extra chef and they were just amazing. As was the food. Read other reviews about her truffle tortelli and my goodness it did not disappoint. 10/10 from arrival to leaving. Left the kitchen spotless and such a special memory for my partners 30th birthday and all our friends. Thank you!!

We had booked Chef Elia, a group of 8, for my sister's hen and she was the honest highlight of our evening. She was extremely easy to reach and communicating intolerances etc was a breeze. She was very accommodating when it came to discussing the menu. She was a real pleasure to work with. She arrived on time, and very discreetly and calmly got on with her work, we forgot she was in the same house, that was until a delicious and mouthwatering smell started to fill the room. Everything was served promptly. We agreed on 3 delicious appetisers - the grilled figs with gorgonzola dolce and bresaola was my personal favourite however the sea bass ceviche and crostini tomato, shallot basil was equally delicious. Her starter the 'handmade black truffle tortellini, wild mushroom, parmesan sauce porcini' was the highlight of our evening. It was so delicious, everybody's plates were wiped clean. Highly recommended. For the main we went with Beef fillet tagliata, gorgonzola mash, chimichurri sauce, wild rocket and parmesan shavings was so good!!!!! The gorgonzola mash was incredible and surprisingly light, we were so overjoyed to find that she had put the extra left over in the fridge to have the next day <3 We (especially the bride) loved the creaminess and sweetness of the tiramisu and was sad it finished! Do not doubt whether to hire or not! Just go for it - you will not be disappointed.

An amazing experience ! Elia was so nice and thoughtful and a very good and experienced chef indeed.Will definitely ask her again . She even shared some of the food with the older children who were not included in the dinnerparty but had an eye on the amazing desert and one of them was given a taster of the amazing risotto. Thanks to Elia we all had an amazing dinner party.

Elia was warm, professional and flexible. We had a group of 16 with lots of dietary restrictions and she was able to accommodate all of us with light, delicious meals.

Elia was fantastic. She was highly responsive and thoughtful in the lead up to the event. On the day she was prompt, charming and unimposing. The food was delicious and beautifully presented (she was kind enough to bring her own high end crockery). The clean up was impeccable. I can’t stress enough that while the food was fantastic, there is at least for us, something slightly awkward about inviting a stranger to cook in your home, but Elia’s gentle charm and great professionalism made it feel very natural. Thank you so much.

Elia was an absolute delight to have in our home. We felt very at ease and comfortable around her. Elia was professional and friendly, whilst at the same time discreet and respectful. Her dishes were moorish. Everyone’s favourite was the handmade black truffle tortellini, and every plate was empty after each course. Highly recommend Elia.

Our experience with Chef Elia was wonderful. She was very punctual, professional, with great and positive energy- especially when dealing with a large and rambunctious group. I would highly recommend her handmade truffle tortelloni, it was an exceptional dish and has been reminisced upon by the group. Thank you Elia for such a lovely experience and can't wait to work together in the future!

I recently hired Chef Elia for a party at my home, and she did an outstanding job. All of our guests raved about her dishes and presentation. Elia is very friendly and positive, making the entire experience delightful. If I ever need a chef again, I will definitely reach out to her first.

Really lovely and very professional. The food was amazing - we would highly recommend Elia!

We hired Elia to come and cook for our intimate wedding dinner with 12 guests at our flat. She was fantastic from the moment I first contacted her: very quick to respond to messages, extremely accommodating, flexible and helpful. The menu she suggested was delicious and everyone loved it saying it was "the best wedding food" they'd ever had. She was also able to help with wine recommendations which everyone thought went very well with the food. The food looked beautiful and tasted wonderful and she left the kitchen in immaculate condition! It made our day feel very special, Thank you Elia! We would highly recommend her!

Leia was absolutely incredible. From start to finish, she was professional and attentive to detail. The food was incredible. I would highly recommend her!

Fantastic food and service from Elia I would highly recommend her

5* Elia did a fantastic job for our private hen evening event, this Friday. Catering for 18 of us. Communication was always great and prompt leading up to the event. All dietaries were well catered for with gluten free, vegetarian and pregnancy within the party. There was so much delicious food and everyone was full after a 3 course family style served meal. Elia left everything very clean and tidy and put away. A great chef that is so polite, friendly and professional. Nothing was too much trouble for her. Would highly recommend!

Ellia was wonderful. It was my birthday and she produced gorgeous interesting food for 8 people. She was very professional, friendly and very chilled to have around. A lovely lady. We had a great night. Thank you.