Chef Mary Luu

Mary Luu is a private chef, recipe developer, and sommelier, who specializes in health-conscious cooking. Her passion is creating vibrant, delicious, and nourishing meals using high-quality ingredients to celebrate seasonality. Cooking started at a very early age in her native hometown of San Francisco. Being raised in a Southeast Asian household, she had the lifelong opportunity to learn from both cultures. She began learning how to fold her first dumplings from her grandmother. At an incredibly young age, she began working in the restaurant industry due to her father being a chef. He taught her early on how to make dishes that infused both her Chinese and Vietnamese heritage.

Every modern creation incorporates many of her childhood favorites with the knowledge she has gained during her culinary journey in the fine dining kitchens of NYC. She worked directly under the supervision of a few Michelin chefs: Masa Takayama, David Bouley, and Tim Cushman. Each meal is made with lots of love and passion.

Mary’s love for diversity helps her develop unique, mouthwatering dishes to create new flavors for traditional cuisines. For the last 5 years, Mary has worked with clients in California and the Tri-State providing private chef services, meal preparations, as well as menu consulting and recipe development. When not developing menus, writing recipes, or cooking a private client dinner, she enjoys her time with her daughter Eliana and her dog, Pluto.