Want to Give Your Diners a Memorable Experience? Go Off the Grid

Picture this: in the morning you receive a text message containing GPS coordinates. The drive takes you past Greater Zion’s rugged landscape where a dinner table has been set up on a cliff-side with a view of southern Utah’s iconic red rocks and no civilization in sight. There’s salmon on a cedar plank cooking over a campfire and berry cobbler in a Dutch oven.

Jeff Crosland, a restaurant-turned-private-chef, specializes in serving...