Broaden Your Culinary Experience
It’s our mission to broaden and elevate your experience with food in the comfort of your home.
Through our chef services, private event catering, and cooking classes, we introduce new flavors, cuisines, and specialty ingredients to your palate all within your comfort levels.
We provide daily opportunities to interact and connect over food in unique ways. Enjoy the diversity of the Charlotte culinary scene at your table, your way.
Our Values
Elevated Dining
We understand the difference a special ingredient can make in a meal. We obsess over hand-selecting the best to bring an unexpected twist to familiar dishes.
Personalized Experience
We believe the best culinary services are where you get to determine the menu and experience. Every meal is made for your dietary needs and palate preferences.
Craftsmanship
Our meals aren’t mass-produced. We’re a small, women-owned culinary lifestyle company that takes pride in helping you create a lifestyle around quality meals made with precision and passion.
Connection
An epicurean lifestyle is best shared with your favorite people. With the convenience of a personal chef cooking in your home, never miss a moment to connect, taste, and discover new ways of eating together!
Meet Chef Alicia
Executive Chef & Owner
Alicia Charolle, founder of Copper & Thyme, spent nearly two decades in the financial services industry, before making a bold career change to pursue her lifelong love for food and people. She graduated with her professional chef degree from The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in 2021. Shortly after graduation, she started her personal chef business in Boston.
Her passion for cooking was deeply rooted in her childhood experiences, where she developed an appreciation for diverse cuisines and cultures during her travels in Asia and beyond. Upon relocating to Charlotte, she discovered the vibrant culinary scene that the city had to offer, feeling an instant connection and sense of belonging.
As a personal chef, antique copper pots have always had a special meaning to Alicia, since they are often passed down from one generation of cooks to another. She hopes to bring a little bit of “home” and tradition to her clients.
Homestyle French, Italian and Mediterranean dishes are her signature style of cooking and using simple, fresh herbs like thyme to give a dish bold flavor.
You can catch Alicia always testing new recipes, and finding new gourmet stores and shops for the finest local ingredients to bring her clients custom meals that fit their lifestyle.
