About · Chef Joshua Jones
You host. I handle the kitchen.
I'm Joshua — a private chef based in Nashville, cooking dinner in homes, rentals and event spaces across Middle Tennessee.
Who
Joshua Jones, private chef — trading as Personal Chef Nashville
Based in
Nashville, Tennessee
Credentials
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts graduate · NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist
Experience
10 years cooking · 300+ events
Cooks
In-home private dining, custom event menus, event catering, destination dinners
Serves
Nashville & Middle Tennessee · four destination markets for private dining
I'm in your kitchen, sourcing that morning, cooking for your table.
I trained at the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts and came up cooking modern Southern food and fine dining before moving fully into private chef work. Ten years and more than 300 events later, what keeps me here is simple: food is better when it's built for a specific table — specific people, a specific night, a specific reason for sitting down.
Where dinner starts matters. I prioritize seasonal produce, Tennessee growers, independent butchers, local ranchers and trusted regional suppliers whenever the ingredient and season allow it — closer to farm-to-table than a broadline catering catalog, and what's good that week shapes the menu.
I plan the night, cook it in your space, plate and serve each course, and leave the kitchen the way I found it.
I'm also a NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist. That isn't medical advice or a diet program — it just means I can build a menu around how you actually want to eat, whether that's lighter courses, higher protein, gluten-free or a room full of different preferences, without the food feeling like a compromise.
Private dining can be one of my finished experiences — Wild South, the Southern Table, the Butcher's Table, the Tavern Table or After Hours — or a menu I design around your occasion, built for the room, the date and the people at the table.
How the work is organised
One chef, five ways to eat.
Private dining — up to 30 guests
Plated, coursed dinners cooked in your home, rental or event space. Choose The Southern Table, The Butcher's Table or After Hours, or a custom menu. For exactly two guests there's Dinner for Two at a flat $500 total.
Event catering — up to 250 guests
The same cooking at event scale, served as a chef-driven buffet with staffing options, from $42 per guest. Event Catering is Nashville and Middle Tennessee only.
Destination private dining
Private dining travels to the Smoky Mountains, North Georgia, Kentucky bourbon country and Birmingham — a $350 travel fee against a $1,500 event minimum.
The short version
Who I am and what I actually do.
- Who is Chef Joshua Jones?
- Joshua Jones is a private chef based in Nashville, Tennessee, and a graduate of the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts. He came up cooking modern Southern food and fine dining before moving fully into private chef work, and over ten years has cooked more than 300 events. Today he cooks in-home private dining, custom event menus and chef-driven event catering across Nashville and Middle Tennessee under the name Personal Chef Nashville.
- What does he actually cook?
- Five preset dinner experiences — FABLE · Wild South (the five-course flagship), The Southern Table (modern Southern, four courses), The Butcher's Table (steakhouse), The Tavern Table (elevated American classics) and After Hours (served in waves) — plus fully custom menus designed around a specific occasion, and buffet-style Event Catering for larger gatherings.
- Where does he work?
- Nashville and Middle Tennessee for everything, including Belle Meade, Green Hills, Brentwood, Franklin, East Nashville and Murfreesboro. Private dining also travels to the Smoky Mountains, North Georgia, Kentucky bourbon country and Birmingham for a $350 travel fee against a $1,500 event minimum. Event Catering does not travel outside Middle Tennessee.
- How does he source ingredients?
- Seasonally and regionally wherever the ingredient allows it — Tennessee growers, independent butchers, local ranchers and trusted regional suppliers, including Bear Creek Farms beef, Joyce Farms poultry, RC Farms heirloom produce, Ferrell Family Farm greens, Tennemo rice and Queen Bee honey. What's good that week shapes the menu.
- Is Chef Joshua the person who cooks at my event?
- Yes. He plans the menu, sources it, cooks it on site and serves it. For larger parties he brings service support, and Event Catering runs with a staffed team, but the cooking is his.
- What is the Private Dining Studio?
- Every Fable booking opens a private studio for that evening — your menu, timing, guest count, event pass and direct messages with the chef, all in one place. It arrives the moment you book.
- How do you book him?
- Online. Availability is live, preset experiences and Dinner for Two are booked and paid on the site, and custom events start with a $100 reservation that holds the date while the menu is designed.
Practical questions about kitchens, deposits, dietary needs and cancellation are on the FAQ, and you can check live availability any time.