About Us

Bespoke Private Chef Dining, Crafted Just for You.

The Tailored Table Story

Founded in 2025 by Chef Stephen Bucalo, The Tailored Table was created to transform dining into a truly memorable experience. Chef Stephen blends timeless culinary techniques with modern flair, crafting menus that balance simplicity and excellence. Each event is designed in collaboration with the host, ensuring every detail feels personal and unforgettable.

We specialize in on-location private chef experiences, offering everything from four, six, or eight-course tasting menus (with optional wine pairing) to family-style dining, elegant buffets, or passed hors d’oeuvres for cocktail hours. With Chef Stephen’s expertise—and your imagination—we create events that leave a lasting impression. To complete the experience, our full-time party design team sets the perfect atmosphere so you can relax and enjoy.

From intimate weddings and birthday celebrations to yacht parties, seafood boils, and multi-meal service for rental homes, The Tailored Table has curated extraordinary gatherings of all kinds. Whether you want to avoid crowded restaurants or simply enjoy stress-free entertaining,

Bespoke Dining Experiences

Every menu is tailored to your tastes, ensuring an event that feels truly personal.
Private Chef Expertise

Chef Stephen blends timeless techniques with modern creativity for unforgettable meals.
Full-Service Event Design

From food to atmosphere, our team handles every detail so you can enjoy stress-free entertaining.

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Meet our Head Chef

Stephen
Bucalo

Chef Stephen Bucalo graduated from the Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon in 2002. Since then, he has devoted his professional career to working in kitchens all over the country, including working alongside some of the most influential chefs in the United States. Stephen also has extensive experience in restaurant consulting, which ultimately led him to becoming a managing partner in a successful restaurant group, which created 4 different food and beverage concepts and opened nine restaurant spaces in two states.There is no doubt that Chef Bucalo’s extensive and varied culinary experiences during his career, have shaped his culinary expertise, style, and his philosophy on food.

Although each restaurant experience was different, one commonality always prevailed: an immense love and respect for food. Beginning his chef career in California, Bucalo witnessed first hand the many food movements and kitchen philosophies such as farm-to-table, and head-to-tail. These principles greatly influenced his ideas of “People not purveyors, farmers not salesmen.”

Being a Georgia native, returning to cook in the south was a homecoming of sorts for Chef Stephen. Bucalo says of his time in Georgia “I will probably compare every steak I eat, to the ones I shared with the King of Krog st, and to my Fort Worth Brothers, thank you for teaching me the art of curing and smoking meat.”

Today Bucalo resides in Destin, Florida and after more than 20 years experience of working in someone else’s kitchen, coupled with being the operating partner in a restaurant group, Chef Bucalo is embarking on his first solo adventure, with the Tailored Table. A creative, chef inspired, unique, catering experience, that allows the customer to collaborate, customize and celebrate! The Tailored Table is made to match your taste!