Private Chef in Aruba

Devendra Sharma was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and got his start as a sous chef at Mambo Grill Cafe in the late ’90s. From there the résumé moves around: a stint cooking at the Mirage casino, a job at Lindeboom Café, then twelve years as sous chef at the Loghouse restaurant long enough at one kitchen that it’s worth more than the other lines put together. He ran the kitchen at Callaway, the restaurant inside Aruba’s airport, from 2021 to 2023, then stepped out on his own as a private chef in 2024.

That range shows up on the menus. Dishes drawn from Korea, France, the American South, and the Caribbean all sit comfortably next to each other across the three cards, and the “international cuisine, Michelin star” branding isn’t just a tagline it matches a career that’s actually moved across cuisines instead of specializing in one. He’s also fluent in Dutch on top of native English, and gets by in Spanish and Portuguese, which covers most of the languages you’ll hear at an Aruba dinner table in a given week. The Asian menu even carries a set of large Chinese characters down one side, next to a pagoda silhouette cut into the page like a woodblock print a small design touch, but it tells you this isn’t a chef doing a generic “island resort” menu with a few Asian dishes bolted on.