We're Ten Years Old!

Dinner Elf was founded in 2014 by a wife and husband team (Nicole and Jesse) in Austin, TX. The company started when Nicole sent me an email. We decided to use professional chefs without kids. 😀 We asked for business feedback on Facebook. We asked for recipe feedback from co-workers. We

New recipes and AI

The press is full of possibilities using AI or ChatGPT to write a paper, cure cancer, etc. How can this growing technology help Dinner Elf? One bottleneck to creating new recipes for Dinner Elf has been creating great photos. Back in 2015, I took the photos myself (ugly). Then we

Dallas Expansion

We're excited to now be cooking in North Dallas! Know anyone in South Lake, Flower Mound, Little Elm, Prosper, Frisco, The Colony, or Plano who might like some home-cooked love? Let 'em know! More areas in Dallas - Ft. Worth are coming soon.

1,000th 5-Star Review!

We're so excited to announce that we received our 1,000th 5-star review [https://dinnerelf.com/reviews/] today! To put this achievement in context, to get a single 5-star review is really, really hard. People are busy. Here's what has to happen... * A customer books an

Price change

To keep our amazing chefs and to help add new ones, we're increasing our service fee to $135 from $124. All of this increase will go directly to chef pay. Through technology and low overhead, we work hard to keep our prices low, so we don't

Expansion to Denver!

I'm excited to announce Dinner Elf is now cooking in Denver. 🎉 Why did we choose Denver? * It's an amazing city. * I moved to Denver a few years ago from Austin and I want a chef. 😀 We'll be cooking from Boulder to Denver to Littleton.

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Pineapple Party

We're excited to kick off the first of several new upcoming main dishes to our large menu [https://dinnerelf.com/customers/#/menu-list/all/New]! Make next week a Pineapple Party with any of these three tasty tropical dishes: Pineapple chicken thighsShaved pork and pineapple tacosOrange roughy with pineapple

New dinners!

We're excited to announce new dinners that the kiddos (and you) will enjoy! NEW MAINS * Everything bagel breakfast casserole * Ham and eggs breakfast roll-ups * Creamy tomato pasta soup NEW SIDES * Cheesy stuffed garlic bread sliders * Breakfast apricot hand pies * Breakfast strawberry hand pies

5 Incredible Time-Saving Services for Busy Moms

You’re busy. Between all you do at work and at home, it can feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. As a working mom, I have learned to embrace the motto: “Work smarter, not harder.” For me, that looks like using some of my disposable income

Family Dinner

11 Fun Dinner Conversation Starters

Do you need to spice up your family dinner conversations? Download [https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinnerelf.webassets/lm/DinnerElf-11_Conversation-Starters.pdf] and print our fun conversation starters! * What would you say to everyone on Earth in 1 minute? * What would you do if you stayed up all night tonight? * If

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Customer Faves

We're excited to announce 15 new recipes to our large menu [https://dinnerelf.com/customers/#/menu-list/all/New] based on customer requests. Come home to some novelty waiting in your fridge! Paleo+ Salsa chicken stew and Pork and pesto zoodlesTraditional favorites Chicken enchiladas verdes and Turkey mini meatloavesKid-friendly

Company news

New pricing

Today we're announcing an increase in our pricing to $124 (from $99) + ingredients for a chef to grocery shop, cook three nights of family size dinners in your home, and clean up. Why? We work hard to keep our prices low, but this increase is necessary to create

COVID

COVID-19 Safety Protocols

😷NEW SAFETY PROTOCOLS Since 2014, our customers, from busy families to immunocompromised patients, have trusted Dinner Elf to fix dinner. Safety has always been our top priority, and we’ve added extra precautions. 👩‍🍳ELVES Your Elf will wear a mask to grocery shop and in your home. Upon entry, they’

Group Gifts

Home-cooked Love From Near And Far

$23,000 Raised For Families In Seasons of Need Let’s hear it for the aunties, besties, out-of-town family, neighbors and co-workers who have collectively contributed over $23,000 so far this year to group gifts [https://www.dinnerelf.com/giving/] of home-cooked love! Our group gifts make it simple

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Summer Salads

Keep Your Cool With Summer Salads Our newest summer salads are right on time for rising temperatures. These new mains and sides include hearty main dish salads, naked burgers over greens, cold pasta salads, as well as fresh dips and slaws. Come home, don’t turn the oven on, and

Austin Startups

Five Years Of Home-cooked Love

We just turned five! Five years ago this month, Dinner Elf launched in Austin. Looking back on how we’ve grown made us think back on why we started [https://www.dinnerelf.com/about/]. We’re even more passionate about offering a time-tested service that gives busy families a resource

Family Dinner

Could Dinner Elf Work For My Big Family?

A guest post by Kristin Schell [https://theturquoisetable.com/about/] The couple that started Dinner Elf [https://www.dinnerelf.com/] live in my neighborhood. I’ve heard loads of my girlfriends rave about using them to take care of weekday dinners.  I’ve gifted Dinner Elf meals to friends who

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Keto Is Here

Going Keto? We’ve got your back. We know that sticking with a keto eating plan requires planning and preparation. Our new menu makes that as simple as booking an appointment and opening a fridge filled with low-carb goodness! What’s Keto? A ketogenic diet (or keto diet, for short)

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Go Back To School Like A Boss

Our new menu helps you ace back to school However you are coming Back To School, Dinner Elf has your back. Maybe you: * are just totally over packing lunches every night. * are balancing work with rotating camp schedules, and need a break of your own. * really don’t like to

Group Gifts

When Stopping By Isn't A Help

How Dinner Elf Helped One Adoptive Family In 2010, we adopted a beautiful baby boy from Ethiopia. As a second-time parent, I felt prepared to add another little person to our family but I also knew it would be different with a baby that we didn’t bring home as

Group Gifts

The Priceless Gift of Time

Carolyn is an Austin-based attorney, who already had a busy life as a working mother when she found out she was expecting another baby. She knew navigating the newborn phase with her job and all of the activities of her older kids would mean delegating some of the normal things

Group Gifts

Austin Mamas Rally Around A New Mom Far From Home

Meredith is an attorney who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She was six months pregnant with her first baby as she headed to Austin for a quick work trip, never anticipating the home away from home our city would become for her and her growing family. After going into

Edible San Antonio Covers Dinner Elf's Launch In Alamo City

In their 2018 Fiesta Issue, Edible San Antonio [http://ediblesanantonio.com/] shares Dinner Elf [http://dinnerelf.com/]‘s San Antonio expansion and writes about what makes our “chef-driven” approach to food delivery unique. Dinner Elf provides affordable, in-home meal preparation services in both Austin and San Antonio. Learn more at:

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: Our New Moms Menu

Dinner Elf adds meals designed for new moms Do you have a new or expectant mom in your life who could use a little help with dinner? Tell them about our specialty menu of dinners [https://dinnerelf.com/customers/#/menu-list/New%20mom/New] designed to support adequate and nutritious milk

Menu Additions

New On The Menu: The Healthiest Diet You Haven't Heard Of

Dinner Elf adds the DASH Diet to our menu For the 8th year in a row, health experts from US News & World Report [https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/dash-diet] have ranked the DASH Diet [http://dashdiet.org/] as the best diet overall.  Research has shown that the DASH Diet