Chef Hyson
Pacific Grove
(23)
Pacific Grove
(23)
Chef Hyson is who you call when great food matters. He and his team are available for any of your events, big or small.
23 customer reviews
Ryan W.
Chef Hyson helped us throw an awesome birthday dinner party for 12 people. He prepared all the food fresh in our kitchen while his helpers served the plates and helped clean up after. The food was amazing and fun. Great experience. More...
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Kate M.
For the second year in a row, Hyson catered our retreat. Â His food is healthy and delicious, carefully prepared, always with perfect timing, colorful and beautifully presented. Â His smile is even nutritious. Â He is also flexible, approachable and responsive to all palate and dietary concerns. Â Hyson is a gem! More...
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Mary P.
Look no further! Â Many thanks to Chef Hyson and his wonderful staff for delivering such wonderful service. The bartender and waitresses were very professional The presentation of the food was impeccable and flawlessly. The food was absolutely delicious and created to perfection.We are very pleased we chose your services for our event and we will definitely recommend you. It was a pleasure working with you and your staff. More...
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Lisa L.
Hyson may be the best chef whose food I've EVER had the pleasure to eat. You simply can't go wrong with Hyson. Flavor, wholesomeness, comfort and pure love. Perfect.
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Stephen K.
Great food and great service. And, great company. Will use this awesome service every time I have a chance to do so. Â Chef Hyson is great!
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Jacqui ..
Hyson is such a nice and friendly guy, very pleasant to deal with. He's passionate about what he does and pragmatic in helping us to come up with a customized menu to suit our needs.
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Adrienne O.
Chef Hyson is terrific! I had eaten his food a couple of times, and it was great. So we asked him to do a Thai dinner for us, and it was just spectacular. He added a delicious soup to the menu and everything he made was really exceptional. Even the person who said she didn't like Thai food loved this meal. I can give Hyson the highest recommendation. You will not be disappointed! More...
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M M.
Super Awesome food everytime! All dishes Super Unique, creative, flavorful Delicious!
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Michael F.
Hyson cooks delicious conscious food that's balanced, nutritious and yummy. He is my go to guy whenever I need a chef to cook for a special event or a meditation retreat. I love his vegan pad tai noodles and is amazing vegetarian chili. I also love the way he is always trying to please and attend to special needs. He is a really amazing chef! More...
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Anna O.
The mark of a good chef for me is always based on a couple of things: is their food delicious, composed, inventive, and how much do they have to alter ingredients to get them to that yummy state. Furthermore, a great chef to me additionally: builds deep flavorful soups using any oh-hand ingredients, makes meals that don't rely on a given "star of the show" animal protein, and respects the pastry world for its own separate skill/entity. Chef Hyson is a top notch chef encompassing everything I consider to be skilled. Considerate, direct, fun, and knows how to create and present and amazing meal.Thank you for making our yoga retreat in Carmel Valley even more memorable!The pictures on the yelp page do him NO justice, so go on over to the website for sure. More...
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Stuart K.
Hyson is an incredible chef and even better person. Hyson provided three meals per day, onsite, for a family reunion my wife and I hosted at our home for 36 people over three days. He was super easy to work with while he gladly embraced the challenge of meeting dietary restrictions of several family members; doing so without compromising variety, freshness or flavor. Just a perfect experience all the way around. More...
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Derek P.
Chef Hyson cooked for our rehearsal dinner and the food and staff were fantastic. I wish we had used them again for the wedding but the venue made us use their Chef. From the planning to execution, he did a remarkable job and I would highly recommend him for anyone who loves food and great experiences. More...
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Jeff G.
My wife and I live down in Los Angeles. We were married in Big Sur at the start of October 2018. We are vegan and it was incredibly important to us that we had a vegan wedding. We had a fair amount of difficulty finding a chef for our wedding dinner. We had a small and intimate wedding. And, as said, we are vegan and wanted dinner to be vegan. We came across Chef Hyson and this dude met and exceeded every single expectation we had. He was incredibly helpful while working with us to design the menu. He put out amazing ideas for food and if my wife or I wanted something else, he came out with other amazing sounding options that fit what we were looking for. We didn't have a chance to meet Hyson before our wedding so, we were taking a gamble, but based on our interaction with him via phone and email, we felt confident. Fast forward to wedding day. HOLY FREAKING AMAZING!!!! Chef Hyson showed up and created an incredibly delicious vegan charcuterie board for appetizers and dinner included some awesome things surrounding a mind blowlingly delicious vegan veggie pot pie. 3 of the total count of 9 of us are vegan. 1 is vegetarian. 5 are voracious meat eaters. EVERYONE loved his food. EVERYONE. The meat eaters could not believe how much they enjoyed dinner. In the end, plates were cleared and everyone felt like they had eaten more than enough. So if you are vegan and need a chef for any size gathering, get at Hyson. You will not be disappointed. I want to go a step further though. This dude can cook, I really hope I made that clear. Going a bit further, this dude has a phenomenal personality. He was absolutely great to talk with! He was knowledgable about the food and shared some great stories. He didn't steal attention from our wedding. I don't want to give the wrong impression here. He just blended right in with us. AND DELIVERED AN EPIC and AWESOME vegan dinner. In the future, as we head up to Big Sur to celebrate anniversaries, whether it just be us, or we bring a small crowd, we will certainly be booking Hyson for a dinner. So, vegans! Let's book this guy up! Let's show him there are enough of us that he can make a living and not have to accept the gigs where his guests want animals. Chef Hyson is a pro! He knows what he is doing. He takes the taste of food to a whole other level. And he's great with people!This dude will leave you feeling full and happy! More...
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Ariel J.
You will not find food more flavorful and thoughtfully executed than Hyson's. He just catered our wedding at Henry Miller Library for about 60 people, and every guest was RAVING about the food. ..they said it was not only the best food they have ever had at a wedding, but that it didn't even seem like catering food (you know...cookie cutter, missing special details, boring). It was all made and presented with such love by him and his team. We decided to go out of the box and incorporate Indian cuisine into our menu, and Hyson was so enthusiastic about creating the freshest, most delicious and memorable meal for us. He is an incredibly kind soul, and I kind of want to make up another social celebration just to have him cook for us again. He is a local treasure and I would recommend him in a heartbeat. More...
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Martin B.
Can I say amazing enough times to really get the gist of what Hyson's cooking makes you feel? Hyson is a gifted chef who puts his heart and soul into his cooking. I feel blessed to have had the experience of tasting his food. His skill in planning and executing top-notch gourmet meals for over 60 guests during a retreat was something else. I highly recommend Chef Hyson! More...
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Nichol B.
OK, so I was on retreat and this man cooked 3 meals a day for a 7 days. EVERY meal was a different cuisine, and all delicious. Â Like you'd go to a restaurant for that and be really happy. Â Chefs rarely have that kind of cross cuisine repertoire. Â Hire this man. Do it now. Â You will not be unhappy. Â In fact you will be VERY, VERY happy. Â :-) More...
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Michael S.
Hyson and his team prepared all of our meals during an 8-day meditation retreat for 25 people at Skylonda Lodge. I can honestly say that every meal was surprisingly different and delicious. Hyson offered many different types of cuisine - Mediterranean, Thai, Italian, American, etc - and all of them were superb. Everyone on the retreat was continuously commenting on how delicious everything was. Furthermore, Hyson was a complete joy to work with. He was absolutely willing to accommodate all of our various requests and restrictions, and he was genuinely interested in making sure that everyone had a wonderful experience. I highly recommend Hyson and if we ever decide to do another retreat like this in the Bay Area we will certainly look to work with him again. More...
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Darius C.
Chef Hyson cooked for a retreat I attended and the food was great. Â I'm a vegetarian so I especially appreciated the fact that there was always clearly labeled veggie options, including veggie meat!
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Rebekah N.
Chef Hyson catered our wedding last year (over 100 guests) in June. He did a phenomenal job. The food was amazing, our guests still mention it. It was not your typical bland boring wedding buffet food. Everything was fresh and flavorful. We would love to hire him to cook  the same meal for us on our Anniversary!There are so many great things I could say about our experience with Chef Hyson and it would go on for pages. I will keep it simple and just say that you'd be crazy not to hire him. More...
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Sarma U.
Chef Hyson prepared all meals for a party of 60+ members for 3 days for our event in mid-Feb in Los Altos. His breadth of culinary knowledge, variety of cuisines served, brilliant mix of colors, innovative use of seasonal produce, artistic presentation skills and most of all exquisite taste was mind blowing. The weather during our 3 day event changed drastically. Chef Hyson was very aware of it and prepared meals accordingly. His appetizers, soups, salads and desserts were something we looked forward to on all days.I was very impressed by his kitchen management skills. We would request last minute change in menu or someone in our group would request special diet in last minute and Chef Hyson would effortlessly handle those requests with twinkle in his eye and smile on his face. We will definitely avail his services for our future family events.An "Iron Chef" level talent in Bay Area. More...
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Shikhar D.
I had food made by chef on a retreat in Woodside. In short his vegan/vegetarian food matches the 7-Star standards of the resort. His cooking was innovative and taste was amazing ! More...
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Pete T.
Amazing food! Prepared for a party of 10 Foodies....we were all blown away! Just the appetizers were enough to make us so happy! Creative menu....organic corn raviolis,cheese board to die for...main entree...chicken mushroom cashew gravy...mash potato butternut squash leak...and the cous de gras desert Salted Chocolate caramel brownie...wow! All so amazing!!! You must hire this guy when you want amazing food catered for your party!! More...
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Cat H.
This month I had the pleasure to photograph the "Pop Up Dinner" for the Monterey Museum of Art. The concept of using 5 different artists for inspiration for 5 different courses fascinated me but the actual execution of that concept was amazing! Chef Hyson knocked it out of the park with each course. As beautiful as they were to look at, they were even more delicious! I would recommend Chef Hyson for his food as well as his artistry. More...
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