Kelsi Davenport, Director of Marketing & Strategy, Chef Kaylee LLC

Chef Kaylee Davenport, Elite Private Chef, Founder of Chef Kaylee LLC

Chef Anthony Jenkins, Chef Kaylee Davenport, & Kelsi Davenport, team at Chef Kaylee LLC

Seared Scallops and Butternut Squash by Chef Anthony

Chef Kaylee Davenport placing microgreens on poached polpo

our origin story

Kaylee and Anthony spent years cooking inside private households, and they knew exactly what the work could be when it was done well. So they built it their own way: a team held to an exacting standard, supported behind the scenes, and trusted by the households it serves. Kaylee and Anthony built the first client list.

Chef Anthony Jenkins, Elite Private Chef, Chef Kaylee LLC

what began as coworkers became a partnership built around a better way to work.

For years, Kaylee lived the life of a full-time private chef: on call, on the property, devoted to a family’s daily life. It’s rare, intimate work, and she loved it.

Then she met Anthony, cooking inside a household where the team changed often. Between shifts, they traded stories about what makes this kind of work last: steady footing, clear expectations, and the support to keep cooking at your best.

They realized great private cooking depends on both sides at once, a household that can count on its chef and a chef who can count on someone in return.

So when the two of them struck out on their own, they built Chef Kaylee around that idea. Every household we work with receives a team that is rested, supported, and fully invested.

I want to create meals people remember, but more than that, I want to make a difference in how they feel, how they live, and what they’re able to do.

Chef Kaylee Davenport, Founder

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Chef Kaylee Davenport, Elite Private Chef, and Founder of Chef Kaylee LLC

Chef Anthony Jenkins, Elite Private Chef, Managing Partner of Chef Kaylee LLC

Kaylee doesn’t walk away from what she believes in, so investing in what she was building wasn’t a decision. It was a no-brainer.

Chef Anthony Jenkins, Managing Partner

why we exist

CONTINUITY BY DESIGN

Private household work often asks a great deal of the people doing it. Chef Kaylee LLC exists to give them the structure that work rarely has: every member of our team, in the kitchen, answers to us and is supported by us.

For you, that means a standard that doesn’t hinge on any one person’s schedule. A team that’s supported does better work than a team that’s simply managed, and it shows on the plate.