Family-owned since 2001
Our Story
Not the Philadelphia Personal Gourmet
Search results sometimes mix us up with a Philadelphia-area business that also uses the Personal Gourmet name (often found at personal-gourmet.com). We are a different company.
Personal Gourmet on personalgourmet.net is a Southern California family-owned freezer delivery company founded in 2001. We stock households with individually portioned, restaurant-quality meats, seafood, and prepared meals — then hand-deliver into your freezer on a seven-county SoCal route.
What we are not: an East Coast restaurant reservation, a Philly catering inquiry, or a mail-order shipper whose box sits on a hot porch. Federal food-safety guidance for perishable meal kits and mail-order meat is blunt about temperature abuse; our answer is in-person freezer placement, not a better ice pack story for a region we do not serve the same way.
Service area (free in-person delivery): Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego counties. Nationwide shipping options may exist as a separate product — this brand story is the SoCal freezer route. See service area and products.
If you found us while looking for Philadelphia dining, we cannot take that reservation. If you want a SoCal freezer stocked without DoorDash logic, you are in the right place. Call 1-888-870-FOOD for personal pricing — no minimums, no contracts.
A quarter century of bringing restaurant-quality food to Southern California dinner tables — one family, one freezer, one delivery at a time.
Personal Gourmet began in 2001 with a simple observation: the “fresh” food most families were buying wasn’t fresh at all — and the truly fresh food was going to restaurants, not homes. So we set out to change that, sourcing the same restaurant-quality meats and seafood that five-star kitchens use and delivering them directly to Southern California families.
Our method hasn’t changed in 25 years, because it works. Every cut is trimmed, portioned and flash-frozen once — with a USDA inspector present — then sealed so that nobody touches your food again until you open it in your own kitchen. Nutrients stay locked in. Flavor stays locked in. And because everything is individually packaged, a family of four can enjoy four different dinners from the same oven on the same night.
We’ve never advertised on TV or radio, never opened a retail store, and never published a coupon. Instead, we grew the old-fashioned way: a delivery specialist you know by name, food your family looks forward to, and neighbors telling neighbors. Twenty-five years later, more than 70,000 Southern California customers have welcomed us to their door — and we still deliver every order in person, seven days a week.
Family-Owned & Local
We’re not a chain or a franchise. The same family that started delivering in 2001 still runs every part of the business today.
Restaurant Quality
The exact cuts and catches that top kitchens serve — trimmed, portioned, and flash-frozen once under USDA inspection.
Delivered in Person
Seven days a week, on your schedule, handed to you — never left on a doorstep. That’s been our promise from day one.
25
years serving Southern California
70,000+
customers welcomed us in
7
counties delivered — free
Almost 100
gourmet products to explore
Taste the difference for yourself
No contracts. No minimums. Satisfaction guaranteed — since 2001.