Belafonte’s Experimental Kitchen · Surrey · UK
Private chef in Surrey. Fire on call.
A private chef and live-fire BBQ service built in Surrey and bound for the rest of the UK. Private dinners, smoky BBQ, and chef’s tables cooked over real coals — menus written for the room, never off the shelf. Low, slow, and unbothered.
A private chef who cooks over flame, not a microwave in sight.
Belafonte’s Experimental Kitchen brings a private chef to your Surrey home, garden, or venue — and the fire comes along. Every menu is built around the room: the occasion, the season, the crowd, the weather. Nothing is decided until we’ve talked, because the best meals start with a conversation, not a price list.
Think South African-inspired seasoning rubbed into low-and-slow cuts, whole-animal cookery with a bit of live-fire theatre, and the kind of smoke that lingers pleasantly long after the last guest has gone home. Fine-dining technique, backyard soul, and just enough controlled chaos to keep things interesting.
Cooking across Surrey and the wider UK from a local base — bringing custom BBQ stands, a proper flame crew, and a menu that exists only for your table.
“Off-the-shelf is for supermarkets. We do off-the-coals.”
ServicePrivate chef · BBQ
Based inSurrey
TravelsUK-wide
Min. guests8
PricingPer brief
StandsOn request
Four ways to bring the fire to you.
Private Dining
Intimate, seated dinners at your home or venue — bespoke tasting menus cooked over live fire and low smoke. Fine-dining technique, backyard soul.
Smoky BBQ Catering
Full-service, low-and-slow BBQ for gatherings of any size. Brisket, ribs, boerewors, chuck steak, and grilled corn — South African inspired, Surrey delivered.
Chef’s Table & Live-Fire Theatre
The fire comes to the table. Watch the menu take shape over the coals, course by course, with the smoke (and the story) kept exactly where you want it.
BBQ Stand Hire
Belafonte’s own stands on request, for events that want the fire without the transport hassle. We bring the grate; you bring the guests.
Surrey based. Surrey wide. UK bound after that.
Based in Surrey and cooking across the county — then heading wherever the fire is needed. If your town isn’t listed, ask anyway; the diary travels.
Three steps. Zero phone tag.
01 · Send the signal
Tap an open date and tell us the brief — headcount, occasion, the lot. No deposit, no card, no catch.
02 · We talk it through
Belafonte replies within 24 hours with a menu sketch and an honest number, agreed together.
03 · The coals go up
Lock the date, the calendar goes dark, and the fire crew comes to you.
Want the fire at yours? Make the introduction.
Belafonte’s runs on word of mouth. If a friend of the kitchen has eaten with us, they’ll know how to make the introduction — and pricing is agreed together, in conversation. No set number, no fixed menu, no burnt offerings.
Surrey based, UK bound, permanently hungry for the next fire.