The BVI’s Best Kept Secret: A Private Chef Experience on a Deserted Island
I first heard about the private chef scene in the British Virgin Islands through a friend who’d stayed at St Bernard’s Hill House on Tortola. She described a floating sushi bar in the pool — sushi served from a kayak — and I honestly thought she was exaggerating. Turns out, that’s a real thing you can book through Dearie Catering, run by Chef Jacob Dearie, a former chef from the two-Michelin-starred Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons who now works across private islands and villas in the BVI. This article covers what a private chef experience actually looks like here