The Atelier
Founder-led. Specialist-delivered.
A luxury private dining, catering and hospitality company based in Dubai, working across the UAE and internationally.
Founded by Chef Luca Napoleone. We cook for private clients, VIP households and luxury events.
We work in villas, residences and yachts, and at celebrations, corporate events and brand collaborations. Our cooking is Mediterranean at its core, with Italian, Greek, French and Asian influences.
Exceptional food, impeccable service and complete discretion.
The founder
Chef Luca Napoleone
Rome, and a job in a family restaurant at fifteen. A degree in hospitality and management from the University of Rome, then Michelin-starred kitchens in France, Spain, Greece and the UK.
He came to the UAE in 2016 as Executive Chef of Cavalli Club Dubai, where he became the first chef to receive a GastroMoon Award. Then Hilton, Cove Beach and Eva Beach House, private villas at the Mandarin Oriental Bodrum, and two years in private service to the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi.
His training also includes longevity and anti-inflammatory cuisine through Clinique La Prairie.
He founded Private Chefs Atelier to bring that standard into private homes, and leads it today.
"Every dish I create is a doorway to a memory, a scent, a flavour, or a moment that feels like home."
The people behind the Atelier
Built together.
Private Chefs Atelier was founded by Luca and Eva Napoleone with a simple idea: private dining should feel as considered as the world’s best restaurants, without losing the intimacy of being at home.
Luca brought a career built in professional kitchens and private households. Eva brought another perspective — how an evening feels beyond the kitchen, from the atmosphere around the table to the details a guest remembers.
Together, they built the Atelier around something more personal than catering: exceptional food, specialist talent and the feeling of being genuinely looked after.
What began with the two of them has grown into an Atelier of specialist chefs and a wider service team, while remaining personally connected to the people who invite them into their homes.
Luca & Eva Napoleone
Founders, Private Chefs Atelier
The team
Eleven specialist chefs, each with their own cuisine.
No chef is exceptional at every cuisine. The Atelier is built the other way round: eleven specialist chefs, supported by sommeliers, mixologists and service staff, all held to one protocol. Your menu goes to the chef who knows it best.
It is also what lets an intimate dinner and a large reception run on the same evening, with neither treated as second.
One Atelier. Multiple specialists.
Roman and coastal cooking, handmade pasta, the Atelier's founding kitchen.
Nigiri and sashimi cut to order in front of your guests.
Classical technique, plated tasting menus and formal service.
Regional cooking, by the chef whose specialism it is.
Mezze, charcoal and shared tables.
Ceviche, tiradito and modern fusion.
A dedicated pastry chef, so the last course matches the first.
Mixologists and sommeliers for cocktails, pairings and full bar service.
Tell us the cuisine and we will tell you which of our chefs will be cooking it.