{"id":358884,"date":"2026-06-13T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358884\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:34:08","slug":"le-petit-chef-immersive-dinner-arrives-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358884\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Petit Chef immersive dinner arrives in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento diners can experience dinner and an immersive digital show projected on their plates at the Hyatt Centric Downtown Sacramento starting on June 18.<\/p>\n

Le Petit Chef is a traveling dining experience where guests sit and watch a 3D projection of a tiny chef preparing a multi-course meal at their table. But while the visuals are a projection, the food is real, and prepared by (presumably) regular-sized chefs at the 7th Street Standard, the Hyatt Centric\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n

What is Le Petit Chef?<\/p>\n

Le Petit Chef was a project developed in 2015 by Belgian artists Filip Sterckx and Antoon Verbeeck at their artistic studio Skullmapping. Their video of a six-centimeter (2.4 inch) chef projected onto a table and cooking a virtual steak on the plate of each diner went viral<\/a>. Restaurants, often hotel restaurants, around the world host \u2018Le Petit Chef\u2019 dinners in their dining rooms. According to the Skullmapping website, half a million people attend a Le Petit Chef experience every year.<\/p>\n

What is on the Le Petit Chef menu, and how much does it cost?<\/p>\n

For the Le Petit Chef experience in Sacramento, four menus are available<\/a>. At the top end is the Le Grande Chef menu, which includes a burrata and tomato salad, bouillabaisse (a seafood stew) with scallops, truffled roast chicken with summer risotto, coffee-rubbed New York steak with buttered lobster, and lemon verbena cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e. The Le Grande Chef menu is $189 dollars per person plus tax and tip.<\/p>\n

The Classic menu comes in at a lower price point at $159 plus tax and tip. It includes the same main menu items but fewer premium ingredients, such as the lobster, truffles, and scallops.<\/p>\n

The Le Petit Chef Vegetarian menu is $139 dollars plus tax and tip, and consists of a burrata and tomato salad, corn chowder, ratatouille lasagne, roasted hen of the woods mushroom with summer succotash, and lemon verbena cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

The Junior Chef menu, for children 6 to 12, is $79 dollars plus tax and tip. It includes waffle fries, a fruit bowl, macaroni and cheese, grilled chicken, and a brownie with ice cream.<\/p>\n

According to the Le Petit Chef website, requests for vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, or fish-free menus can be requested when making a reservation.<\/p>\n

How can you make a reservation for Le Petit Chef in Sacramento?<\/p>\n

Reservations are available online at the Hyatt Centric Downtown website,<\/a> or by calling at 916-898-1100. Currently, the Le Petit Chef experience is dinner-only and takes place Thursday through Sunday, with multiple seatings on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n

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Anne Ewbank<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Anne Ewbank is a service journalist and food reporter for The Sacramento Bee. Previously, she worked as a writer and editor for the New York-based travel website Atlas Obscura, where she covered food and culture. A California native, she is a graduate of Occidental College and Yale University.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento diners can experience dinner and an immersive digital show projected on their plates at the Hyatt Centric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-358884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}