Unfortunately, Ana is one of the worst people I've ever worked with professionally. She has a terrible attitude and will lash out at you whenever things don't go perfectly her way. Working with Ana is like walking on egg shells. You never know what's going to set her off. If you send her a text and she interprets it the wrong way, she likely to immediately quit on you. This is what happened to me. Ana is a very selfish person that expects everything to go her way and on her terms. If she even perceives that things aren't going her way, she can't handle it and will overreact and make irrational decisions. The main reason Ana quit without any notice for me after using her for over two years is because I paid her $275 for not working one week for me and she didn't like me doing that. It is the craziest reason I've ever heard for quitting. I was always very nice to hear, but it is never enough with Ana. You can compliment her every week for her services, and she still isn't happy. This is because she never feels adequate enough inside. Ana has personal and mental health issues that also affect her work and get in the way of her communication and how she handles situations. It's pretty much impossible to please Ana, as she always finds a way to turn things against you, including good deeds. I wish I would have stopped using Ana sooner so I didn't have to deal with all her drama and have her quit on me without any warning. She has tried doing this to me before, but I tried appeasing her against my better judgment. In hindsight, I should have stopped working with her when she blew up on me over how she interpreted a text message in the past and threatened to quit on me. Ana is a good cook, but her personal and mental health issues, as well as her short-temper and selfish tendencies are not worth the hassle. I highly recommend never taking a chance with Ana. There are much better cooks and people to deal with than Ana. read more

Ana is Amazing! My wife and got tired of stressing about what to make, planning and shopping, cooking and cleaning up every day and just needed a break. We tried Ana and she made us a week's worth of wonderful delicious food for our family of 5. Highly recommend her services. read more

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Ana has been making delicious and healthy meals for our family for nearly a year. She is easy to work with and everything she cooks has amazing flavor! She works with us to create meals everyone in the family will enjoy. Each time she cooks, she leaves a spotless kitchen and a table full of food we can enjoy for days. Highly recommend!! read more

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Ana is a wonderful personal Chef and has become an integral part of our family meal planning. Her meals are creative and delicious, and she works well with us to identify new meals - and of course, we have to go to meals she prepares for us. We save so much money not eating out as often, and her meals are very healthy and satisfying. I love that she hides veggies just about everywhere. Give Ana a try; you won't be disappointed! read more

Ana started cooking in our home in May of 2021. It felt so much safer to have a vaccinated chef in our kitchen rather than go out to dinner. Her food was so good, we didn't even miss eating out. Ana cooked for our family of four for about 6 weeks, and the only reason she stopped was because she had to leave town. We would have kept her coming every week if we could! Anna is just amazing. The food she makes is DELICIOUS. She cooks with fresh ingredients, tries to keep grocery costs down by shopping sales, cooks for a variety of palates, deconstructs meals to appease young kids, and leaves the kitchen cleaner than when she arrived. She's personable, reliable, communicative, and trustworthy. When we entertained, we served meals Ana made to our family and friends. Every single time people were blown away. Also, I recommended her to families in our area and without an exception, everyone was satisfied. Coming home to a fantastic cooked meal after a long day really can't be beat. Just call her today. Your future-self will thank you! read more

Ana review Ana cooked a vegetarian meal for 15 people for my birthday party. Ana was flexible in working with me on recipes I liked and making them come to life. She was able to create a spread in 4-5 hours of delicious vegetarian dishes. From the plating to the taste, all the guests could not stop talking about how excellent the meal was! On top of that, Ana is so warm, easy and wonderful to work. I would hire Ana again to cook for any future event, big or small! read more

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Ana Redko is an excellent personal chef. If you want delicious and healthy food prepared at home, then I cannot recommend her highly enough. I'm vegetarian and my wife is vegan (with a nut allergy). After months of eating out too much due to extremely busy work schedules, we were looking for alternatives and found Ana via Internet search ("vegan personal chef Cambridge"). It was very easy to get started. After a quick phone consultation, we followed up by sharing a list of our favorite foods and current pantry supplies. Ana arrived at our apartment two days later with groceries from our preferred grocery store. She cooked for several hours, and left us with about five days of amazingly delicious food. Ana has cooked for us for the past seven weeks, and we plan to continue. We have opted for "surprise" menus, which have been great for diversifying our diet, but Ana is also open to feedback and suggestions. Last week, we requested several of our favorite dishes to share with visiting family members. Our mostly carnivorous family members were delighted by the quality of the food. It's been great working with Ana -- she's talented, professional, responsive, and friendly. We're looking forward to many more months of delicious food! read more

Amazing! We hired Ana for a bachelorette weekend. I am dairy and gluten free and she prepared versions of all the apps and dinner just for my needs. Everything was crazy delicious and healthy. I am thinking about cooking differently after having her food. She also tolerated taking a lot of silly pictures for us. Everything was delicious and beautiful! read more

We hired Ana several months ago and it's been so wonderful. Her meals are restaurant quality. She is very easy to work with, very friendly and listens what we like and don't like. Our freezer is full and we rarely order food out anymore. Not that she cooks for my husband and I and my 9 year old, she also make meals for our babies. The whole family LOVES her meals. I would recommend Ana to anybody who either don't like to cook, don't know how to cook or for busy families because she is one of the biggest help in our life! read more

Ana made a delicious meal for my friends and I during our girl's getaway weekend. She was easy to communicate with, had great suggestions for our menu, and everything she made was delicious. Everyone was raving about each dish that came out and she prepared enough for us to have leftovers for the rest of our weekend. I wouldn't hesitate to hire her again and suggest anyone in need of a chef for a private event to do the same. read more

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Ana made a beautiful and delicious dinner for my cousin's bachelorette party at our Airbnb and every was perfect. She was so good communicating with me, providing me with many options and ideas. She was completely flexible with anything we needed whether it was having enough cooking supplies at the Airbnb or providing us with simple supplies we would need afterwards for leftovers. There was great variety in the dishes, we opted for a tapas style dinner. We had more than enough food, that's for sure. Her attention to detail and the presentation of it all was so special and it was a pleasure working with her. Don't think twice about hiring her! read more

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Ana has been cooking for our family for awhile now, and I've never eaten better in my life! She makes the most fabulous food--which is not easy considering I am gluten and dairy free and my husband is a vegetarian. But somehow, even with all of our diet constraints, Ana still manages to whip up the tastiest dishes. Also, some people worry about the cost of a personal chef, but it ends up being really cost effective because we don't end up eating out like we used to and we can eat her food all week. So it saves me tons of time preparing meals, they are super tasty and healthy and I don't have to stress about taking my 3 year old out to dinner. I highly recommend her services. read more

Ana prepared a meal for about 20 of us including toddlers and did an amazing job incorporating only fresh, healthy ingredients in a way that was spectacular. We really enjoyed her energy as she worked her way around the kitchen and loved how conscientious she was with her ingredients and flavor combinations. Ana made everything easy, from discussing menu options, creating specialty foods to accommodate diets and allergies, and to make sure there are plenty of leftovers for us to feast on the next day. We were all really impressed with not only how nutritious everything was but also delicious! Excited to have her over again soon! read more

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I was interested in transitioning to a vegan diet so I hired Ana to be my personal chef. While I know she can cook anything, she really shines with vegan cuisine! I'm not a picky eater, and I like surprises, so I have let her cook anything she likes. The results have been truly amazing. I wanted to have 5 different dishes to last me for a week's worth of lunches and dinners. She comes about once a week and cooks up a storm, then leaves the kitchen completely spotless. My favorite dishes so far have been the artichoke, roasted pepper/eggplant/mushroom pasta, the snap pea, roasted cherry tomato/corn, asparagas cous cous, and the mango, blackbean, and red onion salad. She is very professional, friendly, and knowledgable; she's always teaching me something as she cooks. I'm very happy with her services. read more

Ana is amazing! We cannot recommend her highly enough. She has been cooking weekly meals for us in Longmeadow for the past two months as a personal chef, and it really has been a godsend! I have to avoid dairy due to an allergy, and she has done a fantastic job despite this limitation. She prepares a different creative menu each week and always seeks our input. She is highly skilled in many types of cuisine and has impressive variety in her cooking (Asian, Indian, French, European, American - she does it all!). Her service is all-inclusive - she shops for ingredients and cleans up after she comes, leaving the kitchen cleaner than when she arrived. She is incredibly conscientious and is very responsive to feedback. I don't know what we would do without her! It is so nice to have restaurant-quality food in the times of COVID when it is much harder to eat out. We have eaten at top restaurants, and her cooking is up there! read more

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Anna has been a true godsend. My mother has very strict dietary restrictions and Anna has worked with us to craft delicious weekly menus that accommodate the entire family. Her prices are reasonable for everything she offers (shopping for food, cooking for the week, cleaning, working with clients to adjust menu weekly). She is extremely warm and caring. Highly recommended! read more

Ana started cooking for us several months ago and it's been wonderful! I like her approach where she makes enough dishes so there's always something on-hand to reheat. She's very accommodating of food preferences and knows of lots of different cuisine types and styles. She's great! read more

Ana has been cooking vegan meals for us for more than a year. She cooks two weeks worth at a time. Last night I texted her: Gorgeous food! Another marvelous meal! Our guest loved it. We ate the stuffed yams, stuffed chard leaves, roasted broccoli, and your much loved beet-orange-arugula salad. We all tasted everything else you made. We loved every bite! Her food is healthy, tailored to our preferences, and delicious. She also prepared the meals for larger events in our home (for 30, and for 50). All vegan and so delicious that although none of our guests was vegan, everyone loved the food. She is amazing. read more

I hired Ana last week to prepare a week's worth of Plant-Based foods and have been thrilled with the results. I've eaten like a king this week and my body has never felt better. Ana prepared my food just as I asked for: Vegan with no oils just as they recommend in the documentary Forks Over Knives and the book the Engine 2 Diet. I've enjoyed amazing salads, chili with cornbread, spaghetti with squash noodles, casserole, curry and cookies. In terms of logistics, Ana delivered the food to me in Cambridge, MA on time and on budget. Ana is also very receptive to comments and suggestions about her food. The world would be an even better place if Ana cooked for everyone. I feel lucky to have such healthy and delicious food available to me! Hire Ana for your personal chef needs! read more

Ana is a wonderful chef and a huge time saver. Thanks to her, my family gets delicious and nutritious food, and I get to spend more time with my family instead of being in the kitchen. read more

Ana started cooking for our family when I was pregnant with our third child. She has been a life saver for our family because we now have a less stressed-out mom, delicious home cooked food and much healthier food than I could ever muster the energy to prepare every night myself --so many more veggies!! We are avid omnivores, and Ana meets our every whim and desire. And she has introduced more variety of recipes and ingredients, mixing in with our own family favorites. I have even requested that she prepare some of my own mother's dishes that I no longer have the recipe for and just based on my description, she recreated my childhood favorites. I know the secret to her cooking - it is love. Ana loves her job, loves food and loves cooking for other people. That positive energy makes her food now an integral part of our daily lives. I am so grateful to have her cooking in our life!! And she does great kid-friendly food - necessary in my picky eater household. And the best part is that we are actually saving money by using her service weekly. She is a very efficient shopper and uses everything (no waste!). The amount of food I would buy and waste when I was doing the cooking myself was terrible. And we ate out a lot more than we do now. So we are saving money, eating healthier with more variety, and the food tastes better than any take-out or something I sweated over 30 minutes before dinnertime. We love you Ana!!!!!! read more

We've had the pleasure of having Ana cook for our family for a few months now and we treasure her visits. We too have a fair amount of dietary constraints (including celiac-gluten free and dairy free) but she is completely unphased and, as others have said, when tasting her food, you'd never think of what is not there. It is so fresh and tasty. She leaves a hungry house of 4 food for 5 days. Recently, we've tried to schedule times when we could be home to learn from her and expand our cooking repertoire. She is inspiring to cook with and a wonderful personality to have in your home- a lovely and warm spirit who can seriously cook! I highly recommend her! read more

My family has been using Ana for over a year now, and she has been a lifesaver. As two working parents, we were always scrambling to get dinner together at the last minute which often meant stressful/rushed cooking or expensive takeout. Ana has changed all that -- she's an incredibly talented chef but also a great listener and very flexible. She's willing to try anything we ask her to -- including Persian dishes! We are so grateful to have found Ana and think of her as part of our family! I'd enthusiastically recommend her! read more

I recently had the joy of cooking with Ana! I am trying to cook more dairy free, gluten free meals for me and my boyfriend and I was struggling to make things that taste as delicious as the cheese filled meals we love. I had her food at a families house that I babysit for and it was honestly the best food I've ever tasted! I was sold! Her quinoa patties are to die for (never thought I would say that about quinoa!) We cooked for a few hours on Monday and made chili, curry, various forms of patties and a chickpea snack. We ended up making even more food than we planned, Ana was so generous with her time. I learned so much and have been eating so well ever since. She even guided me through making a soup a few days after with all our leftover veggies. My boyfriend and I have both lost 5 lbs. and feel better than ever! I am already planning the next time I can cook with Ana. I can't wait! I couldn't recommend her any more highly! For you and your loved ones, she is the best chef in town! read more