The Live Cooking Show · Signature
A dinner your friends will keep talking about.
Chef Alecia arrives two or three hours before your guests, unpacks, and sets the ingredients out on the counter where everyone will be able to see them: the scotch bonnets, the ginger, the fish, shrimp, chicken and whatever the season hands her that week.
She gets to work and people drift in to watch. The show hasn’t begun, but watching the prep with a glass of wine is half the fun. The smells begin to take over the kitchen, and it draws everyone closer. Then it’s time to sit. She cooks five courses over about three hours and talks the whole way through it. Where the dish comes from. Why it’s made that way. What her grandmother did differently, and why. Throughout the meal there is laughter, questions, jokes and somebody usually ends up at the counter with a spoon in their hand.
The fruit flambé is lit in front of you — a perfect ending.
This is what she loves to do. It was in Negril for twenty years, and now it’s here for you.
From $200 per guest · minimum 6 guests · introductory rate through December 2026
“A cultural and dining experience unrivaled in Jamaica.”
How an evening runs
Dinner shows start at 6:00 pm. She arrives two to three hours ahead to set up, depending on the size of your party. Earlier works too — just tell us on the form.
Whichever puts them closest. She wants to be able to hand plates directly. Wine glasses full. Music low.
Soup, salad or an appetizer, a fish course, the main, and dessert. She talks while she cooks. Why those two spices belong together. What the pimento is doing besides tasting good. What her grandmother did differently.
You do not touch a dish. She leaves it the way she found it.
What’s included
Sourced, prepped, and cooked. Vegetables from the farm markets. Fish from the Gulf. Nothing bought in a box.
Soursop, June plum, sorrel, tamarind, cucumber-ginger. Pressed the afternoon of the dinner.
Her pots, her knives, her spice mixes. Your kitchen just needs a stove, a sink, and counter space.
Dishes done. Trash out. Leftovers boxed and labeled if there are any.
Twelve or more guests, a second pair of hands is included — usually Mark, her husband, or one of the local hires she has trained here.
Free anywhere within 75 miles for parties of ten or more — Tampa, St. Pete, Punta Gorda. Beyond that, we quote destination travel separately.
She brings her knives, her ramekins, and the pots she cooks with. From your kitchen she’ll need frying pans and a few mixing bowls, plus plates and glassware for your guest count. The juices are included. Alcohol is BYOB.
Tell us on the form. Rental kitchens vary and we’ll check you’re set before the date — if the plates and glasses are short, we can arrange rentals and pass the cost through.
Group size & price
Minimum 6 guests.
Any bigger, ask. Alecia has done larger, but the room and the kitchen have to fit it.
At additional cost. It takes four hours and it’s worth it.
Earlier works too. Tell us on the inquiry form and we’ll match your evening.
Included in the per-guest price. Nobody is running out of clean forks.
$200 per guest, five courses, food and juices included. Rate goes up in 2027.
Your deposit holds the date. The balance is due 48 hours before, when she shops. We accept PayPal (card or account) or Zelle. Cancel more than seven days out and you’re refunded in full. Inside seven days, the deposit is non-refundable. Inside 48 hours, the booking is non-refundable — the food is already bought. Booking inside seven days? The full amount is due at booking, and it’s non-refundable for the same reason.
Where she cooks
Sarasota, Bradenton, Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Lido Key, Anna Maria Island, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, Osprey, Nokomis and Palmetto. Free travel inside 25 miles of downtown Sarasota, and free anywhere within 75 miles for parties of ten or more — Tampa, St. Pete, Punta Gorda.
Farther out — a family renting a house on 30A, a week somewhere else entirely — ask. We’ll quote travel and lodging with the booking.
Good occasions
Fifty, sixty, seventy. Anniversaries. Retirements.
Small, warm, and the food is the memory.
One night during a family week, when everyone is finally in the same house.
A closer to a board dinner or client visit. Nobody is presenting anything.
An honest reason. A lot of people book her for this.
One house, one long dinner.
Frequently asked
All the food, all the juices, all the prep, all the cleanup. Chef Alecia arrives with the ingredients and leaves with the trash. She brings her knives, her ramekins and the pots she cooks with — from your kitchen she’ll need frying pans, a few mixing bowls, and plates and glassware for your guest count.
Minimum 6 guests. Comfortable up to thirty. Parties over twelve get a kitchen assistant included.
Plan on about three hours from first course to last. She arrives two to three hours ahead to set up, and stays after to clean the kitchen.
In your kitchen. Sarasota, Bradenton, Siesta Key, Longboat, Lido, Anna Maria Island, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, Osprey, Nokomis, Palmetto. Free travel inside 25 miles of Sarasota, and free anywhere within 75 miles for parties of ten or more.
Yes. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, nut allergies, seafood allergies. She has cooked around all of them for twenty years. Tell us on the inquiry and the menu comes back adjusted — not a separate plate that looks like an afterthought.
Send an inquiry with your date, guest count, and city. You will get a menu and a quote back within one business day. A 30% deposit holds the date. The balance is due 48 hours before the event.
Yes. Free within 25 miles, and free anywhere within 75 miles — Tampa, St. Pete, Punta Gorda — for parties of ten or more. Farther than that, note the location on the inquiry and we’ll quote travel and lodging with the booking.
Ask anyway — if the date’s open and there’s time to shop, she’ll make it work. Bookings made inside seven days are paid in full at booking and non-refundable, since she’s already shopping.
Tell us on the inquiry form. Rental kitchens vary, and we’ll check you’re set up before the date — if the plates and glasses are short, we can arrange rentals and pass the cost through.