About Us

Welcome to Palate Cuisine

What Makes Us Unique

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Our Philosophy

Our focus is placed on the customer. We put ourselves on the other side of the table and evaluate how to create a culinary experience that will make an impression and match your vision. While infusing all of our menus, preparation and execution with love, we cultivate a customer experience that is as unique as our flavors.

We aim to provide culinary experiences that are elevated to new heights.

Our goal is to delivers a level of joy and trust throughout the process that makes you feel well taken care of. We want you to enjoy everything from first contact to the mouth watering memories we provide for our clients.

The Team

Diana Rodriguez is the founder and visionary leader of Palate Cuisine, bringing a wealth of expertise to the world of fine dining and culinary arts. Thanks to her enduring passion for culinary excellence and her unwavering determination to ensure clients' expectations are exceeded, Palate Cuisine is committed to delivering an unforgettable dining experience to our clients.

Diana Rodriguez

CEO

Christopher Gebaide, our Chief Operating Officer, brings over 20 years of invaluable experience in kitchen management and logistics. His meticulous attention to detail and extensive background ensures the flawless execution of our culinary creations, delivering a seamless and exceptional catering experience to our clients.

Christopher Gebaide

COO

Eileen Feliciano, our Sales Manager, is the face of Palate Cuisine when it comes to building relationships with our clients. Eileen excels in cultivating and nurturing relationships with clients. She goes beyond simple transactions and strives to understand the unique needs and preferences of each customer. With her charm and expertise in event coordination,she collaborates closely with our customers & planner’s to create custom-tailored catering solutions that perfectly suit their vision.

Eileen Feliciano

Sales Manager

Behind the scenes, Marcela Beleno keeps the wheels turning smoothly as our Offices Manager. Marcela's primary responsibility is to maintain and enhance the efficiency of administrative tasks and procedures. Her organizational skills are unmatched, ensuring that all the administrative aspects of our business run like a well-oiled machine. With Marcela on board, clients can be confident that every detail is attended to.

Marcela Beleno

Offices Manager

At the heart of Palate Cuisine's culinary creativity is Chef Reydel Hernandez. With an adventurous spirit, and a commitment to producing the best quality food with only the finest ingredients, Chef Reydel crafts mouthwatering dishes that have kept us our reputation for exceptional taste and presentation. His culinary artistry brings your culinary dreams to life.

Reydel Hernandez

Chef

The Past

Diana Rodriguez was born in Panama in 1981. She had a love for food at a young age, her mother and grandmother were both chefs and some of her earliest memories include her learning how to cook from her grandmother. Even though both her mother and grandmother were chefs, she experienced some resistance when she expressed that she dreamed to be a chef. Her family continued to push for her to finish school and go to college to pursue a career that did not involve hospitality. Diana continued her schooling, graduated high school and started college. After a short time in college, Diana realized her desire to become a chef was calling her, about the same time her mom moved to the United States and Diana saw an opportunity to pursue her dream of becoming a great chef.

Diana's mother secured a job as a head chef. Her mom's career allowed Diana to work in a restaurant, where she started as a dishwasher. As luck has it one day the pantry chef did not show for work and Diana stepped in and the owner was very impressed. This was the beginning of Chef Diana's life dream. Diana enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts. She excelled in all the practical application, but her English was limited. As a person that never gives up, she spent long hours teaching herself English while being a wife and mother of three small children. Using this as energy she spent long hours day and night studying culinary and English to have her dreams come true.

In 2007 Diana graduated from Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts.
Diana decided to change from restaurants to catering and landed a job with Bauer Catering Group. She was a bit hesitant about the move but quickly realized that she could express herself more as a Sous-Chef in Catering than as an Executive Chef of a restaurant. Her ability to go from designing single plates to creating station designs to go with the theme of the party had clients and peers raving about her work. Her confidence level grew, and she started creating out of the box Hors d’ Oeuvres and knew that she had found her calling.

Bauer Catering Group was her stepping stone and she worked for them until 2013, at this time she decided to take the next step and become the executive chef for Tastebuds Catering. Accepting this position, she realized her talents were going to soar. Not only was she able to showcase her culinary skills, but now she could put her management skills into play. Her abilities to purchase effectively, hire talented staff and design a complete parties’ culinary experiences was proving to be successful. The company was taken to a new level. The long hours were taking a toll on Diana’s family. She knew it was time to find a new avenue to continue her career and have a family life balance.

The Present

Palate

In 2018 with the support of her family, Diana decided to take the leap of faith and start anew. At this time, she felt it was the perfect moment to start her own company.

Palate Cuisine. Her company vision from the beginning has been very clear. To provide culinary experiences that are elevated to new heights. Each menu is created for that particular client. Her secret to success is love. This secret has had her company take off and with each new client, Diana knows this road is all about living her dream.

Contact

12484 NW South River Drive

Medley, FL, 33178

+1 786 703 5476

[email protected]