Traveling Gourmet offers personal chef service to Ann Arbor-area homes

Being a professional restaurant chef for more than 10 years has given Kelly Johnson a broad range of cooking experience. Working in the Traverse City area, she has learned how to prepare such cuisine styles as healthy, organic, comfort food, Asian, Latin, Italian and more. Now, she's bringing that smorgasbord of talents into the homes of area residents with Traveling Gourmet Personal Chef Service. 

 

"The personal chef business has been around for about 20 years," says Johnson. "The chefs go into people's homes and they cook for them, whatever they'd like, depending on diet or type of meals they need."

 

Johnson moved to Ypsilanti in January to be closer to family, and felt the timing was right to launch her own business. Traveling Gourmet Personal Chef offers weekly or bi-weekly cooking inside the clients' homes. She'll also offer catering services, but only to her personal chef clients.

 

Traveling Gourmet has been open for about a month. Johnson says she would eventually like to expand more into catering with a staff and a commercial kitchen. 

 

"So far so good," Johnson says of the newly-launched business. "I've had a several inquiries, and have a couple of clients already, but I'm still looking for more."