Kade Mislinski is your go to personal chef and meal prep maestro
You know one of my favorite things to write about are my friends doing awesome things. Now that I have the total freedom to do that with this website, that’s what I’m going to do. Well, I mean, I’m going to do other stuff as well, but promoting pals and their cool endeavors will be a big part of it. Because its super fun. And because I can. So there.
Kade Mislinski and I go back well over a decade. If not longer. Not exactly sure the exact time and moment when we did become acquainted but I have a feeling it had something to do with food.
It was probably his time as co-owner of Café Passe down on 4th Ave. It had to have been. If I was ever on the avenue I’d usually pop in for an iced coffee or some kind of delectable nibble. Although if my cloudy cognizance will allow, I’m pretty sure I was at Café Passe one night because they had advertised an evening of drum n bass.
Drum n Bass and I got acquainted in the mid-90s back in San Francisco at some club called Liquid or Spackle or whatever. I had never heard anything like that before. Kinetic beats, sonic basslines, yet twinged with reggae chillness. Didn’t take long for me to get hooked on that sound. Ever since moving to Tucson in 2006, I had yet to find a space that played that line of frantic dance music.
But there it was. Café Passe. And none other than Kade Mislinski was behind the decks. Very cool.
During my time with the Weekly, I got to write about Kade when he operated a steamed burger concept on Grant Ave. It was delicious and an ode to two hamburger stands located in Connecticut. One being Ted’s Restaurant, in Meriden, CT, which has been said to originate the steamed burger concept. The other is Louis’ Lunch, in New Haven, which holds court as the oldest hamburger stand in the US. So it goes.
Now the line between oldest and steamed burg gets bleary in the greasy throes of American history. Some say Louis’ invented the steamed burger while others say “No! Louis just threw a meatball on the grill, smashed it up and served it to an impatient customer between bread.” Now as a mostly food writer, I don’t even know the case of the steamed burger. Its sort of like the original chimichanga. But that’s a dispute I need to put to rest because I do not want to get into some local trouble.
For some reason Kade’s steamed burger place just didn’t make it. I totally thought it would.
Then Covid hit and everything went ker-plunk.
Kade and I sort of lost contact with one another, except for the occasional social media like or comment. Then quite recently, here in late-early 2025, Kade hits me up and says he is now a personal chef doing meal prep and home delivery.
Kade is a one man culinary tour de force my friends!
We hung out one afternoon while he was cooking and prepping for a client and all I could do was gaze in hungry eyed wonder. Every dish he prepared was cooked juuuuust to order as the customer has to heat it up. So easy. So very very good.
Kade being a Tucson chef and restauranteur for many years now, knows exactly what he is doing. First thing is sourcing small and local. Our bountiful desert agronomy is basically like living in a farmers market, so the pickin’s are plentiful and the products near perfection. Kade will work with you to provide the meals you want with a knowledge of farms and facilities that earned Tucson the first city of gastronomy nod from UNESCO.
Vegan? He’s got you. Love you some steaks and seafood? Dude, Kade is so on it. Allergies, restrictions or Kosher? C’mon man! Yeah. You’re good.
Prices range depending on the level of difficulty or how exotic you want those meals to ascribe to. But know this! Its all about making you happy, easing up time on your end and providing healthy sumptuous repasts made with care by a well-seasoned Tucson chef.
Best thing is, Kade will deliver your fares to you, right to your door, when you want them and when you need them. Forget those premade “dinners” you find at the store. Even the ones you see in mom and pop health food shops are loaded with sodium and still contain ingredients you didn’t know existed. No thank you.
As Kade was packing up a weekly meal plan for a client, he set out a sample of the goods for me to try…that were left over! Gosh. You think he’d rob some bits of a paying customer to feed a food blogging dork like me? Yeah, no.
Absolute perfection. Real chicken from a real farm tastes really different in comparison to those that sit in Styrofoam trays sitting just a few clicks down from greeting cards and automotive lubricant.
The veggies were cooked and seasoned meticulously, as was the rice, the potatoes, the… Look. The man can cook. Let’s just put it that way and leave it there.
Kade is also available for private parties, catering and personal chef services.
You want to support local? You want to eat local? You want to eat food that is supported by local, like, everything? My man Kade Mislinski is your go to guy in the pressed chef’s coat. Have skillet will travel!
Sure Kade is a friend of mine but if I thought his food and service was subpar I would not take a chunk out my day to chat him up on this here website.
But he is a good man that serves up suburb food and provides an avail that goes above and beyond.
And he still DJs!
To hit up Kade, you can contact him via email:
kmislinski@gmail.com
Call/Text:
520-488-9339
Or better yet, to see him in action, follow Kade’s social media:
https://www.instagram.com/personalchef_kademislinski/
https://www.threads.net/@personalchef_kademislinski
Cheers!
Yeah Write Mark 