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For Retreat Hosts

Elevate Your Retreat. We Handle the Table.

Packaged, priced gastronomy for retreat hosts — menu design, a chef on-site, or the full table. Houston and Tulum first; we travel.

Consultations begin with a $100 discovery session, credited in full toward your booking. Dates are held with a 50% deposit.

What We Offer

Culinary, Curated for Retreats

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Retreat Menu Planning

Custom menus built around your retreat's theme, dietary needs, and energy arc — from arrival meals to ceremony dinners.

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Chef-Led Culinary Experiences

On-site cooking classes, tasting ceremonies, and farm-to-table dinners your guests will talk about long after they leave.

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Premier Partner Access

Exclusive access to our network of Tulum venues, excursion partners, wellness providers, and local producers.

Packages

Three Ways to Put Us on Your Retreat

Anchored on our published retreat rate — $1,000 per chef day. Provisions and additional staffing are itemized in your proposal; nothing is buried.

Menu Design

Projects from $1,000

Menu architecture and a sourcing plan for your own kitchen team — the full culinary program on paper: menus mapped to your retreat's arc, dietary design, and a market-ready sourcing plan.

  • ✓Full menu architecture for every meal
  • ✓Dietary design for the whole group
  • ✓Sourcing plan your team can execute
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Chef On-Site

from $1,000/day

A Travel Villa Kitchen chef runs your table — up to 12 guests, every meal, for the length of your retreat. Multi-day rates on request.

  • ✓A TVK chef on-site, every service
  • ✓Up to 12 guests per seating
  • ✓Multi-day rates on request
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Full Gastronomy

Custom quote from the day rate

Chef + sourcing + chef-led guest experiences + welcome and ceremony dinners — the complete culinary infrastructure for your retreat, with staffing and provisions itemized in the proposal.

  • ✓Chef-led guest experiences included
  • ✓Welcome + ceremony dinners
  • ✓Staffing and provisions itemized
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Who This Is For

Built for the Hosts Who Do It Right

We work with retreat hosts running wellness, yoga, spiritual, creative, and executive retreats — with home bases in Houston and Tulum, and a team that travels.

  • ✓ Yoga & Wellness Retreats
  • ✓ Executive & Leadership Retreats
  • ✓ Creative & Artist Retreats
  • ✓ Spiritual & Ceremony Retreats
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Fire-side retreat dinner at Quantika, Tulum

Tulum Spotlight

Tulum, Cooked from a Living Pantry.

In Tulum we cook with our partners at Local Bird from a living regional pantry — milpa, coast, market, comal; fresh masa and scratch salsas; relationships with fishermen and small producers, named and credited. Contemporary Yucatecan cooking, in conversation with the diasporic table we set in Houston.

Proof, not promise: our fire-side retreat at Quantika — multi-day chef-curated menus, fire dancers, and dinners under the stars — is the program hosts ask us to repeat.

Houston Retreats

Retreats at Home, Too.

Houston hosts get the same packaged programs on home ground — farm-connected sourcing through our grower network, garden and farm venues, and a chef team that doesn't have to fly in. Off-season and weekday retreat dates are often the easiest to secure.

What's Included

  • ✓Menu design mapped to your retreat's theme and energy arc
  • ✓Sourcing from local farms and producers, coordinated by our team
  • ✓Dietary design for the whole group — allergy and medical-custom fluency
  • ✓Chef-led guest experiences (classes, tastings, ceremony dinners) per package

What We Customize

  • ✦Number of chef days and services per day
  • ✦Guest count beyond 12 per seating
  • ✦Ingredient tier and specialty provisions
  • ✦Additional service staff and production support

Availability: we take a limited number of retreats per season so each one gets the full kitchen. 2027 dates are now open.

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Retreat Consultation

Request Retreat Availability

Consultations begin with a $100 discovery session, credited in full toward your booking. Tell us about the retreat — we'll reply within 24 hours with availability and next steps.

We'll be in touch within 24 hours. Your date is held with a 50% deposit once your proposal is accepted.

Next Step

Where our ingredients come from

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