SALT Cø - Private Chef and Chocolatier

SALT Cø - Private Chef and Chocolatier Bringing the complete fine dining restaurant experience in to the comfort of your own home.

Be it a 7 course tasting menu for a dinner party, a romantic tasting menu for you and your partner, canape party you are after we are more than happy to cater for your every want and need. We even do the washing up afterwards, leaving you to just enjoy the company of your guests and the rest of your evening.

Sunset Catamaran Cruise THIS MONDAY!We have the catamaran booked but currently no one to go on it. Weather looks perfect...
11/06/2026

Sunset Catamaran Cruise THIS MONDAY!

We have the catamaran booked but currently no one to go on it.

Weather looks perfect for it, the food part is all under control (we will make a bespoke menu for you using the best of local fish and shellfish. Sample menu in the photos).

Grab your family, grab your friends, grab some strangers, come and be wined and dined whilst sailing around Poole Harbour.

What else are you going to be doing on a Monday night?!

T: 07742502799.

Having been on every single one of these we have done, I can tell you it is a lot of fun!

PLUS is is Chef Marnie’s last SALT Cø. Event before she runs away to America for the summer…

Let’s talk bread…We bake a lot of bread doing what we do. It is how we start all of our meals. We even make a Gluten Fre...
10/06/2026

Let’s talk bread…

We bake a lot of bread doing what we do. It is how we start all of our meals. We even make a Gluten Free Smoked Honey and Cider Soda Bread for those who can’t eat Gluten.

We have made many different types of bread including: Fougasse, Foccaccia, Brioche, Croissants, Sour Dough, Rolls, Loaves, Sharing and even bread made with different flours (including Grano Arso which is the flour The Fat Duck use to make their Sour Dough where they burn the wheat before it gets milled).

I had a great idea for yesterday’s dinner. I had some Kadayif Pastry (short strands generally used to coat prawns before deep frying and in Dubai Chocolate)…I thought I’d add some to the top of the bread to add a nice bit of crunchy texture to it…

It took me until they came out of the oven to realise what they could easily be mistaken for…

Take a look at the 2nd photo, to see if you see what I saw…

By the time I realised, it was too late to bake fresh so I served them. And they tasted great…

What do you think?

Another great dinner at our Chef’s Table here in Sunny Upton. This time for the winners of the auction where the money r...
10/06/2026

Another great dinner at our Chef’s Table here in Sunny Upton. This time for the winners of the auction where the money raised went to help mend a roof and build a toilet in a local church. Where myself and my good friend Chef Gareth (Executive Chef for John Lewis on Brownsea Island) did a demo in front of 150 people a couple of months ago.

After explaining how a SALT Cø. Dinner works, they asked for a Menu Surprise (where they don’t know the menu). So Gareth and I created a menu incorporating the bits we did as our demos.

This is what we did:

SNACK:
- Smoked Pulled Beef Cheek, Mini Rocket Yorkshire Pudding.

MENU:
- SALT Cø. ‘Hot and Cold’ Egg.
- Blue Cheese Souffle, Blue Cheese Sauce, Toasted Seeds, Apple and Chive Dressing.
- Pan Fried Local Bass, Fermented Tomato and Cucumber Salsa, Whole Roasted Fennel, Aerated Smoked Fish Cream Sauce.
- Palate Cleanser.
- Smoked Beef Ribs, Creme Fraiche Mash, Pickled Swede, Roasted Beetroot, Apple and Chive Dressing, Beetroot and Beef Jus.
- Chocolate and Salted Caramel Tart: Vanilla Pastry, Salted Caramel, Roasted White Chocolate, Cocoa Nibs, Dark Chocolate Cremeaux, Strawberry and Vanilla Pate de Fruits Vale, Frozen Raspberry, Smoked Salt.
- Petit Fours.

When are we coming to cook for you?

STEAK NIGHT AND SUNSET CRUISE!This FRIDAY we have the return of the SALT Cø. Steak Night, the best around. 6 courses of ...
08/06/2026

STEAK NIGHT AND SUNSET CRUISE!

This FRIDAY we have the return of the SALT Cø. Steak Night, the best around. 6 courses of Beefy Goodness for your dining pleasure!

Think Smoked Beef Tartar, nice juicy STEAK! Beef and Tomato Ragu slow cooked for hours and some very clever and super tasty incorporation of Beef into not one but TWO dessert courses. All supplied by the glorious Soutars Fine Meats in Ashley Cross.

£60 per person
THIS FRIDAY, 7pm arrival.

AAAAAND

SUNSET CATAMARAN CRUISE ONE WEEK TODAY!

How do you feel about floating about Poole Harbour, drinking nice wine, eating nice food with lovely people? At the same time as being cooked for and served by the Best Hospitality Business in the area…think Below Deck, apart from the fact that we are not F*cking Idiots and we are actually great at what we do (so. NOT like below deck at all)…

TO BOOK EITHER and/ or BOTH:

T: 07742502799
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CATAMARAN SUNSET CRUISESI did a post earlier this year saying I wasn’t going to advertise these this year. If you wanted...
05/06/2026

CATAMARAN SUNSET CRUISES

I did a post earlier this year saying I wasn’t going to advertise these this year. If you wanted to do one, let me know and I can get it booked with the captain. This post got a lot of traction and we have a few booked over the summer.

We did have one booked on 15th June.

Due to circumstances out of their control they are unable to do it.

So I have a Catamaran booked, but no guests.

In the photos is the pricing and a sample menu.

Who wants in?

Please feel free to share far and wide

How would you like us to come and cook for you this evening?Your menu, created especially for you, cooked right in front...
05/06/2026

How would you like us to come and cook for you this evening?

Your menu, created especially for you, cooked right in front of you by Multi Award Winning Chefs…and seemingly what people like most about a SALT Cø. Dining Experience: you do not have to clean up!

You have until 11:30am today to get in contact.

Minimum 4 guests…so grab your neighbour, grab your friends, if you don’t have either of them grab some strangers from the street and make new friends.

T: 07742502799 BEFORE 11:30am

Another fun Tasting Thursday here at the SALT Cø. Chef’s Table!Last time L&A came we created the Roll The Dice game to d...
04/06/2026

Another fun Tasting Thursday here at the SALT Cø. Chef’s Table!

Last time L&A came we created the Roll The Dice game to decide the order which we serve the courses. So we did it again for everyone this evening too

The order we did tonight’s Menu:

- Palate Cleanser.
- Pan Roasted Smoked Ras Al Hanout Spice Duck Breast, Creme Fraiche Mash, Apple and Chive Dressing. (Photo 3 and 4).
- Sweet Potato Souffle, Roasted Carrot Sauce, Herb Dressing.
- SALT Cø. ‘Hot and Cold’ Egg.
- Goat’s Cheese and Blueberry ‘Magnum’. (Photo 2).
- “Vanilla” Slice: Savoury Cheddar Creme Patisserie, Crispy Puff Pastry, Caramelised Red Onion Chutney..
- Strawberry Tart, Vanilla Pastry, Roasted White Chocolate, Strawberry Cheesecake, Vanilla and Strawberry Pate de Fruit, Strawberry Consommé. (Photo 1)

When are we cooking for you?

SALT Cø. Tasting Thursday is happening TOMORROW!Three spaces left at our Chef’s Table here in Sunny Upton. A Menu Surpri...
03/06/2026

SALT Cø. Tasting Thursday is happening TOMORROW!

Three spaces left at our Chef’s Table here in Sunny Upton.

A Menu Surprise of hyper seasonal dishes I am trialling out. Be the first to try these dishes before they get released out on the general public.

£60pp for the 7 courses.

7:30pm arrival, to start when everyone gets here.

Come see what it is like being looked after by the Best Hospitality Business in Poole…

T: 07742502799

It’s that time of the month again!Tasting Thursday is a day in the diary that we use as Research and Development, with L...
02/06/2026

It’s that time of the month again!

Tasting Thursday is a day in the diary that we use as Research and Development, with LIVE Guinea Pigs!

By which I mean you, I do not do animal testing. Plus I find the feedback from actual humans is more constructive rather than a dog just saying “it tastes Ruff…”

Do you fancy a 7 course tasting menu where we trial out new dishes on you?

There may well be some dishes from my travels in May…

£60 per person. We only have 3 spaces left though so be quick!

T: 07742502799

For those of you who haven’t yet met this very talented lady yet:Officially her name is Marnie. (You may hear me call he...
01/06/2026

For those of you who haven’t yet met this very talented lady yet:

Officially her name is Marnie. (You may hear me call her “Margret”…this is because I asked a while ago if Marnie was short for anything, to which she said it could be used as short for Margret…and I find this utterly hilarious as I have the sense of humour of a 12 year old).

Anyway, Margret is leaving SALT Cø. 😱 if only for the summer. She is going to Washington DC to work for a family as an au pair.

Which means I will actually have to do some work again! As genuinely, I am not too shy to say, at the dinners we do together she does all the work.

Marnie leaves for the states on 16th June. If you want to experience the real reason why SALT Cø. Won BEST Hospitality Business in Poole then I would get yourself a dinner booked between now and the time she goes!

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12A Shore Lane, Upton
Poole
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Wednesday 11am - 11pm
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