Press & intimate dinners
Long-table dinners for editors, founders, and friends-of-the-brand — chef-led menus written around your story, served somewhere worth the drive.
Collaborations
Built with brands who eat the way we do.
We partner with a small number of food, wellness, and home brands each year — designing chef-led experiences that feel like a meal at a friend's house, not a marketing moment.
What we do
Four ways we partner.
Every partnership is shaped around the brand and the room. These are the formats we return to most often.
Content & recipe development
Original recipes, food styling, and on-set culinary direction for shoots — developed by a Lighthearted-approved chef whose voice fits your brand.
Activations & pop-ups
In-store tastings, market days, weekend pop-ups — a Lighthearted chef on-site, sourcing locally, hosting your community in a way they'll remember.
Retreats & multi-day
Founder offsites, team retreats, brand getaways — a chef cooking three meals a day, an itinerary built around farms, water, and quiet.
In good company
A few of the brands we've cooked for.
Jenni Kayne
Citizens of Humanity
Goldune
Erewhon
The Wing Hotel
Fellow Coffee
Doen
The Citizenry
Maude
Rivian
Loulou Studio
Magic Spoon
Selected work
Recent collaborations.
Jenni Kayne x LK · Coastal Harvest
A long-table dinner at Rancho Pico for the launch of the Spring Home collection. Twelve editors, one chef, every plate within ten miles.
Goldune Founders Weekend
Three days, eight founders, twelve meals — a Lighthearted chef cooking through a week of olive oil, fire, and Channel Islands fish.
Citizens of Humanity Market Day
A pop-up at the LA flagship — chef-built grazing tables, a farmer's market on the patio, and fresh focaccia coming out of the oven all afternoon.
Let's talk
Have a brand moment in mind?
Tell us the shape of it — the audience, the timing, the feeling you want people to leave with. We'll come back inside 48 hours with the chef and the room we'd build it around.
Or write directly · partners@lightheartedkitchen.com