Dining Experiences With Points: Chef's Table Auctions
Some of the best tables in the world are not on any reservation platform. Loyalty programs quietly list them on their member marketplaces instead: chef's tables, kitchen tours, tasting menus, cooking classes, and private dinners you bid points on rather than paying cash. It is one of the most underrated corners of the points world, partly because the inventory is scattered across a dozen different program sites.
PointAuctions.com tracks all of them, and there are 214 live dining listings right now, 89 of them chef-led. The lists below are pulled live and refresh throughout the day, so this page stays current no matter when you land on it.
The depth here surprises people. Hyatt's FIND and Marriott Bonvoy Moments run the deepest culinary shelves, with Hilton Honors Experiences close behind, and airline programs like American AAdvantage, KrisFlyer, and Delta SkyMiles adding chef-driven dinners of their own. Recent shelves have ranged from cooking classes in Singapore to dinner and kitchen tours at Michelin-starred New York restaurants. Hotel programs also like to bundle the meal with a night's stay, so a single lot can cover both the table and the room. For the wider view of which programs run the strongest experience shelves, our roundup of which loyalty programs have the best experience auctions ranks them side by side.
Chef-led experiences live right now
Chef's tables, kitchen tours, and chef-hosted dinners, closing soonest first. Identical packages are folded into one row with a count.
Michelin-starred dining
For the bucket-list tier, here is every live listing that mentions a Michelin star:
What dining lots actually clear at
Live prices tell you what a lot might cost; closed prices tell you what people actually paid. Most dining marketplaces do not publish their results, so a reliable archive is hard to come by. The exception is Marriott Bonvoy Moments, where we verify winning bids after each auction closes. Across its culinary lots the median verified winning bid is 100,000 points, with closes spanning 15,000 to 1,097,508 points across 84 verified auctions (verified as of July 2026, and self-updating as new ones close). In our tracking, the spread is wide because "dining" covers everything from a weeknight cooking class to a once-in-a-lifetime chef collaboration, so the median matters less than knowing which tier a given lot sits in.
Median: 100,000 points
84 verified closes · median 100,000 points · updated monthly
Here are some of the most recent Marriott Bonvoy culinary lots to close, with verified winning bids:
Hyatt FIND and the airline marketplaces do not release closing data, so for those programs treat the live bid as your only signal and lean on the cents-per-point math below. For a deeper read on how Marriott's dining and event lots clear, see what Marriott Bonvoy Moments actually clears at.
How to bid on these
Each experience lives on the loyalty program that offers it, and you bid or buy with the points in that account: World of Hyatt points on FIND, Bonvoy points on Moments, miles on the airline marketplaces. PointAuctions.com aggregates the listings and links you straight to the source.
A note on formats: dining is a mix of true auctions and fixed-price buy-now listings, and the rules differ by platform.
On most auction platforms you set a maximum bid, the system proxy-bids for you, and points only leave your account if you win. That makes bidding low-risk: you are naming a ceiling, not spending on the spot. The exception is any fixed-price buy-now lot, where you commit the points immediately.
Hyatt FIND has its own quirks worth reading up on first: our Hyatt FIND beginner's guide covers how that marketplace works before you commit points to it, and if you hold Globalist status the FIND credits and gifting playbook shows how to stretch those points further. For the general mechanics across every platform, start with how points auctions work, and run any big bid through the cents-per-point guide so a once-in-a-lifetime dinner does not turn into a regrettable redemption.
Never miss a chef's table
Dining inventory is thin at any one moment and turns over fast, so the winning move is to be told when a new lot appears rather than refreshing this page. Set a free alert and we will email you when new culinary auctions go live:
Keep this page bookmarked
Dining inventory turns over constantly: classes fill, event dates pass, and new chef collaborations appear weekly. Since this page updates itself, checking back is always worth it. If you are chasing rarer bucket-list stays and experiences, the Maldives on points guide is a good companion read. From here, browse everything live in culinary, explore the World of Hyatt program page for the rest of the FIND shelf, or see what past Marriott lots closed at in the Marriott closed-auction archive.