IT'S NOT JUST FOOD, IT'S AN EXPERIENCE
CHEF PREPARED ON SITE
From the moment Melissa and her team arrive at your door, you'll know that you're about to experience something special!
We'll arrive with fresh ingredients and everything else needed to transform your home kitchen into a professional work space.
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Unlike other personal chef and catering services that may begin preparing some or all of your food days in advance, we fully prepare everything fresh on site to provide an unapparelled level of freshness and quality in our finished product!
HIGH QUALITY INGREDIENTS
Locally sourced, hand crafted sea salt. Grass fed beef tallow. Air chilled chicken. It's just how we roll!
Every ingredient that we use is hand selected by Melissa herself and purchased as close to the service date as possible (often the day of!) to ensure optimal freshness and quality.
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Melissa especially loves to source ingredients from seasonal farmers markets and her favorite local vendors, which include Saltery in Duxbury and Mullaney's Fish Market in Scituate Harbor.
HEALTH CONSCIOUS MENUS
Melissa is on a mission to prove that healthy food should never have to look or taste like "health food" with her vibrant array of dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free and allergen friendly menu options!
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Melissa is also passionate about creating recipes that leave you feeling even better than before you've enjoyed them - which means avoiding overly processed and inflammatory ingredients, like seed oils, binders and artificial preservatives, as much as possible.
FLEXIBLE SERVICE OPTIONS
Whether you're looking for a simple personal chef service, or full service catering option complete with bartending, service staff, entertainment and rentals, Melissa and her experienced team of service professionals can assist with almost every element of hosting, no matter how big or small!
FOR THE FINEST CLIENTS
From five star venues, to historic city homes, luxurious coastal estates, and cozy mountain retreats, Suddenly Simple has been serving a diverse and discerning clientele throughout the greater New England area since 2016.
Some of our most notable clients include professional athletes, television personalities and company founders in the South Shore, South Coast, Cape Cod, Greater Boston, Berkshires, New Hampshire and Newport, Rhode Island areas.
HAPPY TO TRAVEL
By land or by sea, we love being able to join our clients in their favorite locations!
Some of our favorite destinations in the New England area include Saquish Beach in Duxbury, MA and Martha's Vineyard, along with Nantucket and other smaller islands off of Cape Cod and Boston Harbor.
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Have a more remote destination in mind? Travel can be arranged to most US locations. Just get in touch!
HOW IT WORKS
With our concierge booking process, bespoke personal chef service and unique private chef style catering options, Suddenly Simple offers the luxurious experience of having your own household staff on call!​
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From your first contact, to the final bite, you'll be working directly with Melissa at every step of your experience.
After working with you to determine your menu selections, service options, and other event needs that we may be able to assist with (rentals, entertainment, etc.) Melissa will send over a bespoke proposal that provides the cost of your requests in a transparent line item format for you to easily review via email.​
Once you've had a chance to review and approve your proposal (after revision, if needed), you'll be able to easily complete the booking process and make payment online through our secure client portal.​​
On the day of your service, your staff will arrive a few hours before service time to transform the raw ingredients into freshly prepared menu items right before your eyes!​
While we are always happy to create menus that cater to any requests, we have become especially known for our health conscious and allergen friendly menus, and love the opportunity to showcase local vendors with our farm-to-table offerings.
Meet, Melissa!
Suddenly Simple Catering was founded in 2016 by Boston-area wellness chef, Melissa Peralta, who still serves as Chef and sole Owner.
With a passion for creating vibrant dishes with whole, healthy ingredients, Melissa is on a mission to prove that healthy food should never have to look or taste like "health food" with her ever evolving repertoire of healthy, but delicious dishes. Melissa loves to work with local farms and artisan vendors that share her passion for minimal processing and letting the high quality of their ingredients shine!
Melissa began cooking at very young age, taking her earliest instruction from the seasoned home-chefs in her traditional Italian family, where she developed her love of working with high quality, whole food ingredients. As soon she was able to work outside of her family's kitchen, Melissa immediately found herself learning from the professional chefs that took her under their wing during her 10+ years in the restaurant industry.
When Melissa isn't working with Suddenly Simple, you can find her hosting her health conscious, cable-access cooking show, Mood Food With Melissa, launching her paleo-friendly bakery line Mood Food Bakehouse or working on one of the many other wellness initiatives that she is a part of.
In the past, Melissa has also hosted a number of pop-up public dining events, including her signature farm-to-table dinners and wellness retreats, and still loves to be involved as the chef for these types of events when hosted by others!
At this time, Melissa is no longer hosting public dining events and can only be booked for chef services via Suddenly Simple - although, you may still find her popping up for a rare public offering or promotional event from time to time!
Follow @melissamakesitsimple on Instagram or view our event feed for updates on where she may be popping up next.
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