Personal Chef for 5 consecutive weeknights to prepare, serve, and clean up your family's dinner. Chef Andrew will work with family to come up with a menu for the week. He will shop for all items needed. The family will pay for all groceries purchased.

A native of Chicago, Chef Andrew Emery Lawrence has worked in the hospitality industry since the age of 16. His lifelong passion for food began in his family's Randolph Street Deli and culminated with studies in Hotel Management at South Eastern Academy in Florida and the Culinary Arts at the Cooking & Hospitality Institute of Chicago (CHIC). Andrew's experience spans the gamut of fine dining and entertaining-from personal chef work in the homes of Chicago's finest families to large-scale corporate event management. His work experience includes five years with the Marriott Hotel Corporation and two years with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He also served as Chef-in residence at Drummond Island's BOHICA Lodge, and for the Pritzker family in Kentfield, CA. Since 1997 Chef Andrew has served as the owner and Executive Chef of AEL & Associates, Inc. He was the proprietor of GO! Coffee in the Ravenswood Manor and currently serves as Chef-in residence with the British Consulate General. The Chef has made numerous appearances on local and national media, including Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM-TV. Andrew and his wife Jane reside in the Lincoln Square neighborhood, with their daughters Emery and Saba.