ABOUT OUR BUSINESS
Who We Are
We founded Kaye's Gourmet with the idea of bringing our family's’ best recipes to the forefront of the local Afro fusion cuisine movement. We specialize in using farm fresh ingredients and old fashioned techniques to create meals that remind you of home. Delicious, healthful and oh so satisfying.
We can be hired to cater all types of events from private dinners, family meals, birthday celebrations and weddings. We pool our resources to create a memorable experience for you and your guests.
Get in touch to see what we can do for you.
MEET THE CHEF
We Love to Cook
Who we are at Kaye's Gourmet extends well beyond the founders. We are chefs, bakers, decorators, assistants, managers and above all joyful and passionate foodies. Meet the staff that makes Kaye's Gourmet the amazing company that it is, and feel free to contact one of our experts with any question. We will be happy to help you.
Morounkunbi Idowu
Founder / Executive Chef
Morounkunbi Idowu, popularly known as Chef Kaye, was born to Nigerian parents who run a family-owned restaurant/catering business (V. Ginis). She was raised in a fast-paced working kitchen in Lagos, Nigeria. While growing up, she spent most of her summer holidays assisting at the restaurant, which helped her form an appreciation for cooking and restaurant management. This quickly transformed into a passion.
Although Chef Kaye learnt the rudiments of cooking from her parents, her skills were sharpened after leaving the shores of Nigeria on her culinary voyage to the United States of America. In the U.S., she was trained in some of the country's best culinary institutes and was tutored by a number of top chefs. Upon graduating culinary school she then proceeded to further her education at the Conrad Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership; University of Houston. There she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management.
In the course of her studies and training, she mastered food production techniques and the workings of a professional kitchen as well as managerial skills. It's the kind of grueling education that can make or break an aspiring young chef. For Kaye, the experience was rewarding as it enhanced her natural ability to create ambitious, memorable cuisines. she is now an American Culinary Federation accredited chef.
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Kaye worked for top culinary and Hospitality companies such as Hilton, the George R Brown Convention Center and Minute Maid Stadium in her earlier years as a chef. She then she started her own Catering company called Kaye's Gourmet.
Kaye's Gourmet is a boutique catering company that specializes in Afro fusion cuisine, merging authentic African cuisine with contemporary flair.
In addition to running her catering company and working with prominent chefs, Kaye has cooked at numerous culinary events and competitions across the United States like the south belt Ellington Chamber of commerce; night of cuisine, Pasasadena taste of the town, the taste of Time's square serving signature fusion of her classical French cuisine training and her home grown West African cuisine. Her goal is to be an ambassador for African cuisine in the diaspora.
Outside the kitchen, her passions are event planning and traveling; activities that echo her culinary style, fusing adrenaline with diligence.
There is no doubt that Kaye's Gourmet would be completely different without Kaye.