MENU + MEET THE CHEFS
Availability of dishes in-store will vary, as some dish offerings will rotate or sell out due to the chef-crafted & small batch nature of the meals.
Chef Joe & Robin from ChanaMana || Inspired Thai
Chef Joe and Chef Robin are a brother and sister culinary team that have brought the beautiful and bold flavors of Bangkok along with them to Los Angeles. When they were young, they loved helping their grandmother make her from-scratch dishes in the kitchen. Today, they keep up the traditions that their beloved grandmother taught them back in Thailand by using fresh-picked herbs and ingredients. They make their own curry paste using their grandmother’s incredible recipe. One of their favorite ingredients to dish up is riceberry, an exclusive specially-bred strain of super healthy rice created by the late King of Thailand himself which is both non-GMO and gluten-free. With an array of world travel experiences under their belts, this dynamic chef duo aims to dazzle and delight with their worldly culinary wisdoms melded with the freshest ingredients prepared with authentic Thai flair and homemade Thai love, like grandma used to make.
Drawing from her Caribbean roots of Guyana, South America, she melds sweet and savory ethnic flavors with Indian curries, giving rise to incredibly soulful and unique flavors. What began as a hobby while living in Guyana, South America turned into a robust career for Chef Yonette. Learning from both her mother and grandmother who were expert pastry chefs, Chef Yonette opened her catering business, Caribbean Gourmet in 2015 and began popping up in five local farmers’ markets, much to the delight of her fans. With the help of her husband and children, who also share her passion for cooking, they work together as a family to serve their soulful offerings to the foodie community.
CHEF KIKI FROM KLEANLA || PREMIUM HEALTHY
Chef Kiki lets her Southwestern roots shine through in her clean cuisine. Part Mexican and full-on Texan, she’s the head chef behind KleanLA, a premium meal delivery service that specializes in creating organic and sustainable meals from locally sourced and 100% gluten-free ingredients to recreate comfort food favorites with a deliciously healthy twist. Her ground-breaking idea was fueled by her passion for cooking for her personal trainer husband’s clients and grew into a mission of helping people eat clean (or rather, “klean”) without compromising on taste. With the Southwest running through her veins, bold flavors that revolve around citrus, spices and coconut milk instead of heavier and unhealthy ingredients is how she creates her culinary masterpieces, changing the way people view clean eating one delicious “klean” meal at a time.
CHEF PHILIP FROM MAMA MUSUBI || DECONSTRUCTED MUSUBI
Chef Philip decided to hang up his bank job and pick up his chef’s hat alongside his sister. That’s how Mama Musubi was born, a brilliant concept that caused the Los Angeles area fall head-over-heels in love with their musubis. Musubis are the ideal comfort food in Japan, and here they’re taking the area by storm. These rice balls are wrapped up lovingly with seaweed and brimming with an assortment of savory ingredients stuffed into the center for a purely pleasurable hand-held snack. Chef Philip’s gourmet musubis combine wild twists on this Japanese classic that has truly built a cult following among the multiple famers markets you can find them in throughout Los Angeles. Try one of their musubis in deconstructed-style, exclusively for ChefBox!
Chef Jocelyn from Buttermilk House || American Classics
Meet Chef Jocelyn, a chef with a passion for catering and creating culinary delights that are well-balanced and healthful while being hearty and comforting. Chef Jocelyn was just 9 years old when she first began her adventures in the kitchen, trying to follow her mother’s instructions to cook dinner for the family. It was that early start that gave her a taste for cooking and propelled her to Le Cordon Bleu where she graduated with honors. Prior to becoming Head Chef at Buttermilk House Catering, her diverse career began with fashion and food-driven retail at Williams-Sonoma, being an Executive Chef, and even working with some highly notable chefs like Wolfgang Puck. With a list of experiences that reads more like a novel, Chef Jocelyn brings her French training to the table while incorporating healthy and wholesome ingredients to make delicious ChefBox meals for you.
Chef Luis from Old San Juan catering || Modern Puerto Rico
Chef Luis is Puerto Rican and living in LA for 28 years as a professional chef. He started his career at Patina and worked himself up in different kitchen until becoming an executive chef (one of the kitchens was Jennifer Lopez's restaurant Madres in Pasadena!). He also owned a Puerto Rican restaurant in Atwater Village. Now he does catering and also work as a Food Stylist for TV and film such as Westworld. In addition to these endeavors he also host wine tours in Mexico near Ensenada.
Chef AC Boral from Ayo || Modern Filipino
Chef AC has a unique perspective of food that he wants to share with the world. Since 2012, he’s been the driving force behind the culinary cult hit of Rice & Shine, a pop-up dinner service traveling the country that has garnered the affections of OC Weekly, naming it “legendary.” He’s also dabbled in melding Filipino and Mexican cuisines with Naks Tacos and even created crazy-cool concept menus like a Wu Tang Clan tribute dinner. By his side the whole time Chef AC’s mom is there, serving as his inspiration and his cooking companion through all his culinary adventures. His flavors aptly meld music with Filipino and American culture for a hip yet healthful taste that feels like home. His cooking is deeply rooted in Filipino heritage while giving it a notable flair that makes it stand out. Chef AC takes this new twist on Filipino cuisine that brings both traditional and contemporary styles together to draw people into the cuisine of his roots. It’s good for the soul, both comforting and charismatic, something that Chef AC and his mom do extraordinarily well to make you feel like family with every bite.
Chef Cat from Pot & Laddle || Organic Soup
Chef Cat from Pot and Ladle has a unique mission to spread good health through hearty, healthy, nourishing and amazingly delicious soups. It all began several years ago when her father unfortunately became very ill. Chef Cat was determined to nurse him back to good health by filling him up with her healthful, organic and non-GMO soup concoctions to help him recover more quickly. From there, she decided to share her soup with the rest of Los Angeles by ladling up her nutrient and flavor-rich soups regularly. Focused on seasonal and locally-sourced ingredients, Chef Cat hopes to overflow every bowl with her sensational soups that do more than taste incredible – they help keep you healthy too. Her rotating variety of body-nurturing, soul-soothing soups will make you a fan from your very first slurp!
Chef Daniel & Jessica from Clean South LA || Vegan Southern Food
Clean South LA by Chef Jessica and Chef Daniel came about in the fall of 2014 as a fantasy brought to life by the couple that wanted to give the world a taste of true southern comfort foods without the meat. Working together, they teamed up to make southern-fried goodness in a vegan way, incorporating the traditions of the south while being completely plant-based. The results are so spot-on that even meat-eaters don’t miss the meat. To them, cooking is a mix of art, science and magic and incorporating the vegan philosophy into their southern style is all what makes it so exciting. It’s Grandma’s fried chicken without the chicken, and these 2 chefs have created quite an online following with their unique southern vegan foods. Convenient vegan comfort food is now a reality that tastes like a dream thanks to Chef Jessica and Chef Daniel.
Chef Brian & Kevin from B Nutritious || Healthy Fitness
Chef Brian from B Nutritious knows all about healthy cooking and fitness. He was active in high school football, Thai boxing, and even competed in a physique competition. What he learned was that it all comes down to the ingredients you fuel your body with and one thing that makes a difference in having a fit healthy life is a healthy, balanced meal. He learned how to make very healthy meals that were well-balanced and nutritious without sacrificing taste. What began as meal prep service cooked from his own apartment turned a runaway hit and he moved his kitchen out of his apartment and became B Nutritious. With B Nutritious, Chef Brian’s mission is to bring fresh, healthy and incredible-tasting foods to the table.
Chef Tommy Kousaka from Sushi Dragon
Chef Tommy has been working in sushi restaurants for over 40 years, healthfully and expertly preparing sushi for all these years, a careful craft that brings him peace. He got his start back in high school at a local sushi restaurant just on the edge of Tokyo. Eventually, he moved to Los Angeles and in 1982, he opened his own restaurant, Kakura, in Lomita, California. Wanting a change, he took a break from running his restaurant to become a sushi instructor at Sushi Academy in Venice Beach. However, it was his love of sushi and bonding with his customers over the fresh sushi he’d prepare that brought him back to his sushi roots. That’s when he opened Sushi Dragon 11 years ago so he could continue to do what he loved the most. While other sushi bars try to out-fusion each other and compete with the latest trends, Chef Tommy sticks to the simple traditions of sushi, allowing the fresh ingredients and his skills to speak for themselves.
Chef Maithy from Ai
For Chef Maithy, composing food that is beautiful for the eyes, soul and palate all in one, is a pure reflection of her world travels. A symphony of perfectly-presented flavors, Chef Maithy takes her experiences from living and working in Paris, Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, along with her travels to Italy, Brazil, Peru, Australia, and most of Asia and melds them together so spectacularly that the cuisine she creates impeccably makes a statement without uttering a word. Growing up in a home where cooking was synonymous with love, she uses her culinary expertise to demonstrate her care for others. Drawing from her former award-winning product engineer experience, the energy she puts into every dish truly shines through with multicultural touches woven through to make unique and incredible meals for an unmatched dining experience.
Sukhmani Nagpal from Tukda || Healthy Indian
Sukhmani graduated from Temple University, Philadelphia with an MBA in Strategic Management and worked as a Management Consultant with a leading firm in US. With her hectic job schedule, she realized the difficulties in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and always felt deprived of good homemade food.his is how Tukda - A Morsel of Health was born. Tukda means a bite of food. Tukda strives to provide healthy homemade Indian meals infused with flavors and we focus on using less oil and healthy materials. Our motto is healthy non-restaurant style Indian meals.
Chef Sherry from Kazi & Co
Chef Sherry is a self-taught chef who drew big influences from her surroundings in the Taiwanese food scene bustling with night markets and 24/7 service. In her family, love was expressed by food, something that nourished her soul inside and out. Once she moved to America, she found that in addition to love, food was about bridging the cultural gap, finding common ground even with differences in languages. With her fantastic culinary skills, she was always dishing up nutritious and fresh meals. Her love of her two dogs, Mur Mur and Mimi, got her thinking of ways to explore making nutritious meals for the canine side of her family. After consulting with veterinary professionals and experimenting with human-grade ingredients, she soon found a new niche and a way to express her love for animals by treating them to quality foods that were safe for them, nutritious and won the approval of her own dogs. Kazi & Co. was started by Chef Sherry to help other dog lovers take good care of their furry family members with real foods that don’t have ash or other fillers so they can eat like real family too.
Chef Billie from Culinary Recrafted || World Cuisine
Chef Billie seeks to make the cuisine of the world accessible to all. With brilliant flavors and dazzling technique, her passion is ignited in the kitchen. Her love of cooking began at a very young age when she was often inspired by the edible creations at her mother’s bakery. When it became obvious food was her destined career path, she went to The New School of Cooking and The California School of Culinary Arts/Le Cordon Bleu Program. She didn’t stop there. Chef Billie got her Nutrition Certification from Chef Certification as well as Food Science Certification from HarvardEDX and completed the Chef De Cuisine Exam from the American Culinary Federation as she holds a firm belief that knowledge is the way to expand a culinary state of mind. Having catered for big celebrities like Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, her cuisine is a showcase of impressive creations designed to wow the palate and nurture well-being inside and out. She is excited to share her love of “Creating Foods From The World” and the vast health benefits that assist with nurturing wellness. “Cooking is love made Visible”