Performance Chef in Detroit: Meal Prep for Athletes, Executives and Founders
The short answer
Elevated Eats is a performance chef and meal prep service in Detroit. A trained local chef cooks meals designed for you by a nutritionist, using 100% organic ingredients and no seed oils, and delivers them fully cooked in glass each week. Elevated Eats serves professional athletes, executives, founders, investors and their families across Detroit, Oakland County and Ann Arbor, including Detroit, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield and Grosse Pointe.
Meal prep for professional athletes in Detroit
Detroit is one of the few cities where all four major league teams play downtown, within a few blocks of each other. The Lions train in Allen Park, and many players across the four teams live in the northern suburbs: Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Troy and Northville.
Elevated Eats covers the city and those suburbs, the Grosse Pointes to the east, and Ann Arbor to the west. Every meal is cooked fresh by a performance chef in the Detroit area and delivered in glass.
For executives, founders and investors in Detroit
Metro Detroit is still the center of the American auto industry, with the engineering, supplier and finance leadership that comes with it. For executives in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills or Grosse Pointe who want their food handled to a professional standard, Elevated Eats provides the full team: nutritionist, performance chef, chef manager, naturopathic doctor, client success and ingredient sourcing.
Where Elevated Eats delivers in Detroit
Elevated Eats delivers across Detroit, Oakland County and Ann Arbor. Towns covered include:
Detroit, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield, Grosse Pointe, Northville, Novi, Plymouth, Rochester, Royal Oak, Troy, Allen Park and Ann Arbor.
These are not the only places covered. Elevated Eats confirms coverage by zip code.
Limited places in Detroit
Elevated Eats holds capacity per city, and every menu is designed from scratch, so plan on a 2 to 3 week lead time.
Your place in Detroit is held the day you commit.
How Elevated Eats works in Detroit
- You complete a 30 question intake. Favorite meals and cuisines, allergies, goals, training and travel, and the details most services never ask about.
- A nutritionist designs your menu. Menus are built a month at a time from a library of 800+ recipes, and sent to you to review before anything is cooked.
- A performance chef in Detroit cooks it fresh. Your meals and snacks are delivered each week, fully cooked, in glass, with reheating instructions. Your chef swaps the empty containers at the next delivery.
- A client success team stays on it. You text them to change a menu, adjust portions or plan around travel, and they handle it with your chef.
- Lab testing is available. Blood, micronutrient and gut testing with a consult from a naturopathic doctor, after which your menu is customized to your results.
A private chef in Detroit vs. Elevated Eats
Most people who find Elevated Eats in Detroit are weighing it against hiring a private chef. The food can be excellent either way. The difference is what stands behind the chef.
| A private chef | Elevated Eats | |
|---|---|---|
| Who cooks | One chef you find, hire and manage yourself. | A vetted, trained performance chef in Detroit, managed by Elevated Eats. |
| Who designs the menu | The chef, or you. | A nutritionist, around your goals, schedule and preferences, from a library of 800+ recipes. |
| Who else is involved | No one. A private chef is one person. | A chef manager, a naturopathic doctor for optional lab testing, a client success team and an ingredient sourcing team. |
| Ingredients | Depends on the chef and on what you ask for. | 100% organic, grass-fed and pasture-raised proteins, wild-caught seafood, no seed oils, delivered in glass. |
| Feedback and changes | You give it to the chef directly. | You text the client success team, and they handle it with the chef. |
| What you pay for | The chef's time, with groceries usually billed on top. | One all-in price: the chef, every ingredient, the nutrition team and the glassware. |
For the full comparison, including delivery apps and standard meal prep services, read the real cost of your food.
The Elevated Eats standard
- 100% organic. Gluten-free, soy-free and free of refined sugar, by default.
- No seed oils. Elevated Eats cooks with avocado oil, coconut oil, grass-fed ghee and butter, and tallow.
- Grass-fed, grass-finished, pasture-raised protein. Seafood is wild-caught. An ingredient sourcing team vets every supplier.
- No plastic. No plastic containers or cutting boards, and no Teflon or aluminum cookware. Every meal arrives in glass.
- Built for performance. Meals and snacks include functional ingredients, including NSF Certified for Sport supplements, chosen for your goals.
400+ professional athletes cooked for | 50+ cities with Elevated Eats performance chefs | 800+ recipes in the Elevated Eats library |
Elevated Eats has been featured on ESPN, NHL Network and The Hollywood Reporter.
Questions about Elevated Eats in Detroit
Does Elevated Eats deliver to Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Ann Arbor?
Yes. Elevated Eats covers Detroit, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield, Royal Oak, Troy, Rochester, Novi, Northville, Plymouth, Grosse Pointe and Ann Arbor.
Is Elevated Eats a private chef service in Detroit?
Elevated Eats is a performance chef service. A trained local chef cooks your meals fresh each week and delivers them fully cooked in glass. Behind that chef is a nutritionist who designs your menu, a chef manager, a naturopathic doctor for optional lab testing, a client success team and an ingredient sourcing team. With a private chef you hire and manage one person. With Elevated Eats the team is managed for you.
How much does a performance chef cost in Detroit?
Elevated Eats charges one all-in monthly price that covers the chef, every ingredient, the nutrition team and the glassware. The price depends on how much food you want each week and how many people you are feeding.
How soon can I start with Elevated Eats in Detroit?
Plan on 2 to 3 weeks from the day you commit to your first delivery. Every menu is designed from scratch, and Elevated Eats holds a limited number of client places in each city. Coverage is confirmed by zip code.
What food standards does Elevated Eats cook to?
100% organic ingredients. Gluten-free, soy-free and free of refined sugar. Grass-fed, grass-finished and pasture-raised proteins, and wild-caught seafood. No seed oils: Elevated Eats cooks with avocado oil, coconut oil, grass-fed ghee and butter, and tallow. No plastic containers: every meal is delivered in glass.
Can Elevated Eats cook for my whole household?
Yes. Plans are sized by how much food your household needs each week, from one person to a family.
What happens when I travel?
Menus are planned a month at a time around your schedule, with more food when you are home and less when you are away. Elevated Eats has performance chefs in 50+ cities across the United States and Canada.
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Performance nutrition in Detroit
A performance chef in Detroit,
with a full team behind them.
Elevated Eats accepts a limited number of new clients per city.
Every application is reviewed individually.
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