Lisa Waldschmidt has been a personal chef since 2004. Her passion for cooking and her love of preparing luscious meals using the freshest ingredients shows in her attention to every detail. She works carefully with her clients to keep them happy and well fed, meeting their needs and desires for wonderful meals cooked in their homes, whether it’s their family favorites or their special requests.

Her various personal chef clients have included families of all sizes, working couples too busy to cook, a couple in med school, a pregnant mom on bed rest, and elderly seniors. Special-needs clients have ranged from the Lactose Intolerant to working directly with a nutritionist to create a specific specialized meal plan for a client who was hypoglycemic and pre-diabetic.

Parties have ranged from a surprise engagement supper, to elegant anniversary dinners, to dinner parties for 4 to 18. She has served down-home chili and cornbread for 50 on the river and prepared made-to-order omelets for an office of 30. Everything from helping clients bring their own party ideas to life, to suggesting menus themes and tablescapes,to preparing everything ahead and leaving it for the them to simply heat up themselves, to doing the entire party from start to finish making sure it all works perfectly – down to washing the last crystal wine glass and giving the countertop a final wipe.

Before becoming a personal chef, Lisa worked in business communications. Over the years she took as many cooking courses as she could in her spare time, and expanding her already generous library of cookbooks. . She entertained as often as she could convince the family to clean house. Rarely did the same meal appear twice and she broke all the rules by cooking and serving meals to guests she had never tried before. No one seemed to complain, and soon dinner invitations were received with anticipation, pleasure and a little drooling. Food and cooking developed into a passion that soon had to be met full time, no longer as a hobby. She quit her life in the 9-5 world and became a personal chef.

Lisa is a member of the American Personal Chef Association and is ServSafe certified for your family’s protection. She recently moved to sunny San Rafael from the Midwest with her 2 lovely daughters and a wonderful husband who thankfully stays out of her way in the kitchen – but loves to eat AND do the dishes!