Japanese Private Chef · London

Homemade
Japanese. Just
not by you.

Real Japanese home cooking, meal-prepped in your kitchen and stocked in your fridge.

From £100 a visit 8–12 portions
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Japanese meal prep in London

You know what good Japanese food tastes like. You just don't have four hours on a Sunday to make it.

A chef who grew up cooking this food comes to your kitchen and cooks eight to twelve portions of it, then leaves it portioned in your fridge and the kitchen clean. No table to book. No meal kit. No washing up.

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The Japanese menu

Eight core Japanese dishes.
All classics.

These are our staples. If you'd like something else, just say so when you book and we'll see what we can do.

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Chicken teriyaki with rice and sesame green beans
照り焼き

Chicken Teriyaki

Chicken thighs glazed in house teriyaki sauce, served with sesame green beans. The most requested dish we make.

830 kcal 50g protein
Sliced tonkatsu with rice and shredded cabbage
とんかつ

Tonkatsu

Pork loin in panko, twice-fried until properly crisp, with finely shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce. The original katsu.

940 kcal 51g protein
Chicken katsu with rice and shredded cabbage
チキンカツ

Chicken Katsu

Chicken thigh fillets crumbed in panko and fried golden, sliced and served with shredded cabbage. Crisp outside, tender within.

870 kcal 44g protein
Agedashi tofu with enoki mushrooms in a bowl
揚げ出し豆腐

Agedashi Tofu

Silken tofu, lightly fried, in a delicate kombu dashi broth with enoki mushrooms.

Vegetarian 590 kcal 24g protein
Japanese curry with rice in a meal prep container
カレー

Japanese Curry

Chicken thigh curry with potato, carrot and onion. Richer and milder than Indian curry, and deeply satisfying.

730 kcal 36g protein
Miso glazed salmon with rice and tenderstem broccoli
西京焼き

Miso Glazed Salmon

Salmon marinated in white miso, mirin and sake, then grilled, with sesame-fried tenderstem broccoli.

650 kcal 34g protein
Gyudon beef and onion with rice in a meal prep container
牛丼

Gyudon

Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered in dashi, soy and mirin, served over steamed rice. Japan's great comfort bowl.

710 kcal 40g protein
Veggie mapo tofu with rice in a meal prep container
麻婆豆腐

Veggie Mapo Tofu

Tofu and aubergine with mushroom, onion and carrot in a savoury toban djan sauce, finished with spring onion. No meat.

Vegetarian 630 kcal 26g protein

Most dishes contain soya and gluten (from soy sauce). Our food is prepared in your kitchen, which may also handle other allergens, so we can't guarantee a dish is free from traces. Tell us about any allergies or dietary needs when you book and we'll adapt where we can.

Who books us

The week you'd
rather not cook.

01

You work late.

Deciding what's for dinner at nine o'clock is a decision you make when you're too tired to make it well. Four days of real food in the fridge removes the decision entirely, which is the whole point of Japanese meal prep.

02

You've eaten the same five dinners all year.

Eight Japanese classics, rotated however you like. Pick two dishes a visit and work your way through them.

03

You want the protein without another plain chicken breast.

Between 24g and 51g of protein a portion, in food you'll actually look forward to eating.

04

The good Japanese places are nowhere near you.

London's best Japanese cooking is a long way from most of London. A Japanese private chef comes to your kitchen instead.

All our chefs grew up on the food they'll be serving you.

Ingredients

Three ways to
stock the kitchen.

You provide everything

We send you a list for the dishes you've picked and you do the shopping yourself. The cheapest way to book a visit.

Hybrid

We bring the Japanese pantry staples: soy, mirin, dashi, panko and curry roux. You grab the fresh produce locally.

Most popular

We source everything

We do the shopping and bring it all with us. Nothing for you to do but let the chef in.

Every visit includes the chef's time, their travel, and a kitchen left clean. See all prices.
Prefer not to have a chef in your home? We can cook at ours and deliver, from £145 with containers included.

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How it works

Four steps,
start to fridge.

Step 01

Book

Pick your dishes, a date, and how you'd like the ingredients handled.

Step 02

Confirm

We match you with a chef and confirm everything within 24 hours.

Step 03

Cook

Your chef arrives and cooks 8–12 portions in your kitchen, then cleans up.

Step 04

Eat

Portioned meals in your fridge. Most keep 3–4 days, and most freeze well.

oishee chefs

The amazing chefs
who'll be in your kitchen.

Maiko, a Japanese private chef who cooks for oishee in London homes Maiko H Tokyo Katsuhiro, a Japanese private chef who cooks for oishee in London homes Katsuhiro Y Kyushu Rie, a Japanese private chef who cooks for oishee in London homes Rie Sapporo Ayako, a Japanese private chef who cooks for oishee in London homes Ayako H Okinawa Kana, a Japanese private chef who cooks for oishee in London homes Kana Tokyo

Every chef is interviewed in person, holds a Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate, and has cooked our core dishes for us before setting foot in your kitchen. Meet the chefs.

From recent visits

Testimonials.

Chicken teriyaki, miso glazed salmon and rice portioned for the week by an oishee Japanese private chef

It was excellent - Maiko was a brilliant and skilled home cook. The food is delicious and the kitchen was left very clean and tidy afterwards. I would love to re-use the service.

Usman, Finsbury Park
Cooked by Maiko
A full visit of Japanese meal prep portioned into trays by an oishee private chef in a London kitchen

Ayako was excellent and we really enjoyed the experience! The meals were so tasty and special. We will definitely look to use this service again and highly recommend it to others.

Darragh, Walthamstow
Cooked by Ayako
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Ready for a different
kind of dinner?

Pick your dishes and a date, and we'll take it from there. Takes about two minutes.

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Prefer to message? WhatsApp us.

FAQ

Questions,
answered.

Anything else on your mind? Message us on WhatsApp and a real person will get back to you.

We cover most of London, north, south, east and west. We regularly cook in Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill, Hampstead, Islington, Shoreditch, Hackney, Stoke Newington, Finsbury Park, Walthamstow, Camden, Clapham, Fulham and Wandsworth. If your area isn't listed, start a booking and we'll confirm whether we reach your address as soon as possible.
You'll need to let the chef in at the start and be around when they leave, but you don't need to hover. Most customers use the time to get on with other things.
Meal prep. Your chef spends the visit batch cooking 8-12 portions of Japanese food and leaving them portioned in your fridge for the week ahead - not plating a single dinner. It is Japanese meal prep in your own kitchen, by someone who grew up cooking it.
Your kitchen and your equipment - the chef will use whatever pots and pans you have, and everything is washed up before they leave. Please have four to six decent-sized containers ready for the food. Depending on the option you choose, you may also be supplying the fresh produce; we'll send you an exact list for your dishes when we confirm the booking.
Life happens. We ask for at least 48 hours notice where possible so we can let the chef know. Message us on WhatsApp and we'll sort it out.
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