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Dining · Ambergris Caye

A private chef, cooking to your table.

Lunches and dinners cooked in the villa kitchen, groceries at cost, and a table that moves from the dining room to the dock. Tell us what you love — the menus follow.

Private chef
Lunches & dinners daily
Groceries
Stocked before arrival · at cost
Table
Villa, dock, beach & boat days
Drinks
Rum punch & Lava Cake fame
Villa pool and deck overlooking the water

How dining works

The kitchen moves around your group's tastes.

Chef Marvin presenting a plated dish in the villa kitchen
Chef Marvin — every lunch and dinner is cooked in the villa kitchen to your group's preferences.
  1. Chef-led lunches and dinnersA private chef cooks lunch and dinner in the villa kitchen, tuned to what the group actually wants that day.
  2. Groceries at costThe team provisions everything before you arrive and passes groceries through with no markup.
  3. Dine where the day landsLong villa table, dock at sunset, or barefoot on the sand — the setting follows the mood.
  4. Sundowners by the poolCold drinks and rum punch without leaving the water.
  5. Beach picnics & boat daysPacked coolers, chips and drinks for sandbar afternoons and full days off the dock.

The table

What dinner at Canary Cove actually looks like.

Private chef
Chef-prepared lunches and dinners served daily, with cleanup handled by staff.
Groceries at cost
No pantry markup, so provisioning stays straightforward.
Guest favorites
Lava Cake and dockside rum punch — both remembered by name in the guestbooks.
Where you'll eat
The villa dining room, the pool deck, the dock, or packed for the boat.
Breakfasts & snacks
The kitchen arrives stocked for self-serve mornings and grazing between meals.
Celebrations
Milestone dinners for birthdays, anniversaries, and reunions.

Guest notes on the food

Dessert gets its own thank-you notes.

What a perfect vacation! The house is wonderful, staff beyond our wildest dreams, dining like no other! Thank you for one of the most memorable vacations of our lives. We will be back for sure.
Bernthal/Stambaugh family · 2024
Thanks so much for taking such amazing care of us at all points. And the food was AMAZING!!
Art · 2017
Thank you SO much for making us have an amazing trip! I will always remember the Lava Cake!
Ben · 2017
Villa exterior view from the lawn

Plan your stay

Hungry? Send your dates.

Tell us your dates, your group, and what you love to eat — the chef plans the week around your table.