About Dragonfly
Food is comfort, connection & craft
What happens when a career fine-dining chef decides the best table in town should be yours.
Chef Matthew Stone
A restaurant career, brought to your table
Chef Matt is classically trained, with more than twenty years working across private clubs, formal steakhouses, and modern clean-eating cuisine. His career includes The Capital Grille and True Food Kitchen. His final restaurant role before 2020 was Executive Chef of Top Chef Quickfire Philadelphia.
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In 2020, Dragonfly was founded on a simple idea: the care of a great restaurant kitchen belongs at personal gatherings too. Food is love.
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About Our Founder and Executive Chef
Chef Matthew Stone is a classically trained culinary professional whose career spans private clubs, formal steakhouses, and modern clean-eating cuisine. He led high-volume and concept-driven kitchens in Boston, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, including The Capital Grille and True Food Kitchen. His final restaurant role before Dragonfly was Executive Chef of Top Chef Quickfire Philadelphia, where he helped shape the branded dining experience from concept through execution.
In 2020, amid the uncertainty of the pandemic, Dragonfly Catering began serving the community through comfort, connection, and culinary craft. Home-delivered meals grew into full-service catering, private chef experiences, artisan pop-ups, and curated events. Dragonfly evolved from a home kitchen into a shared collaborative space at Artisan Exchange before establishing its current home in Downingtown.
Today, Chef Matt leads Dragonfly's Downingtown catering and event-space operation. From elegant plated dinners and immersive tastings to bourbon pairings and interactive cooking classes, his approach remains rooted in integrity, flavor, sustainability, and community. The goal is always larger than the meal: to create thoughtful moments and make food feel like love made visible.
The story
From restaurant kitchens
to your table
The restaurant years
Classically trained, with experience spanning private clubs, formal steakhouses, and modern clean-eating kitchens.
The kitchens
Leadership roles at The Capital Grille and True Food Kitchen, followed by Top Chef Quickfire Philadelphia, his final restaurant role before 2020.
The leap
Dragonfly Catering was founded in 2020 on the belief that food is comfort, connection, and craft.
Today
Dragonfly Catering in Downingtown serves weddings, private dinners, corporate events, and the Chester County community.
How Dragonfly began
A restaurant standard, made personal.
Food is love.
Matt's restaurant career led directly to Dragonfly. After his final restaurant role at Top Chef Quickfire Philadelphia, Dragonfly Catering was founded in Chester County in 2020.
What began with meals for local families grew through the relationships built along the way. Weddings, private dinners, corporate events, and community work followed, not from a fixed package, but from listening to what each gathering needed.
Today, Dragonfly pairs chef-led catering and bartending with an intimate event space in Downingtown. The team still approaches every event the same way: make the food personal, take care of the details, and give the host time to be present.
Rooted here
A Chester County company, on purpose
Cooking for local families, businesses, nonprofits, first responders, and healthcare workers.
Food Is Love.
Cook with us
Whether it's a private dinner for two or a celebration for fifty, Chef Matt would love to hear what you're planning.