from MX$850 
The best table in Cabo is at your rental — set by a private chef in Los Cabos.
Year-round cooks working the stretch from Cabo San Lucas to the East Cape, ready to bring dinner to the house you booked. Compare menus, message the one you want, and the market run, the cooking and the cleanup are handled.
4.9★ 228 traveler reviews
MX$850+ per person · ≈US$46
5 chefs in Los Cabos, Mexico
The shortlist
The cape’s working five
The order is blunt: the chefs Cabo actually keeps busy sit at the top. Menus, working prices and the notes earlier tables left are inside each profile — and nobody bought their spot here.
from MX$850 
from MX$1,350 Miguel Ángel López
Thirteen years from Mexico City school to Cabo’s luxury kitchens
4.95 · 128 See menus →
from MX$1,320 Laura Ariana Valenzuela
Raised on a farm in Argentina, finished in Italy, settled in Baja
4.94 · 46 See menus →
Booking
From the first text to the last course
You talk straight to the chef. No packages, no concierge markup.
1Compare the five
Real menus, real prices, real guest notes. Shortlist the chef whose food matches the trip.
2Share the details
Dates, headcount, the name of the house or community, plus allergies or picky eaters in the group.
3Agree on a menu
The chef writes a proposal, you push back where you like, and a single per-person price is pinned down in the chat first.
4Dinner comes to you
Groceries bought, courses cooked in your kitchen, table served — counters wiped down before the goodbyes.
MX$850 – 1,940 ≈ US$46–105 a head
How much does a private chef cost in Los Cabos?
Between the five of them, dinner starts at MX$850 and tops out at MX$1,940 a person — call it US$46 to US$105. The price follows three things: the chef, the courses, and how many chairs you fill. The number already covers the shopping and the service, the chef signs off on the total with you first, and most will happily quote in dollars. Drinks stay your department, though several of these crews mix cocktails too.
Coverage
The cape, corner by corner
Every chef on this page travels. What the address changes is the traffic and the sunset.
01
Cabo San Lucas
The marina, El Médano and the hills of Pedregal. Big group energy — bachelorette weekends, taco spreads by the pool, dinner before a night out.
02
The Corridor
Palmilla, Chileno Bay, Punta Ballena and the gated communities along the highway. Resort-calibre kitchens that deserve a proper tasting dinner.
03
San José del Cabo
Gallery streets, the estuary and Puerto Los Cabos. Quieter tables, slower courses, and Saturday’s organic market around the corner.
04
The East Cape
La Ribera, Costa Palmas and the beach houses past the pavement. Chefs pack coolers and cook as if the nearest store were next door.
05
Todos Santos
Over on the Pacific, with Cerritos below it. Surf-town mornings, farm stands on the way in, and dinners that end under a sweater.
Diamante, Quivira and Cabo del Sol get the same service, and so does nearly every gated community in between — name the gate early so the chef is on the access list before the menu is even settled.
“His food is out of this world, and the stories behind the recipes passed down from his mother are precious. Quick to answer, endlessly responsive, and a genuine joy to host in the kitchen.”
Do they cook at our villa or Airbnb?
That is the whole idea. The chef shops in town, cooks in the kitchen of the place you rented — villa, condo, beach house, even a boat — plates dinner at your table and cleans as they go. If the house is inside a gated community, give them the name in advance so security waves them through.
When do the good calendars fill up?
A week or two of notice covers the low months. From November through May — above all the holidays, spring break and whale season — the in-demand chefs are booked most nights, so grab your date as soon as you have the house. Saturday dinners for big groups go first.
What about big groups, kids and allergies?
Cabo chefs live on group trips. The five here handle everything from a table for two to multi-day bookings for twenty or thirty, write kid-friendly courses without being asked twice, and allergies get cooked into the plan days before anyone lights a burner.
Planning the trip already?
Dinner is one message away: name your dates, your house and your headcount.