WE’RE HIRING: CHEF & CULINARY CREATIVE
We’re looking for a chef with vision, creativity, energy, and the drive to build something distinctive.
We’re developing a new hospitality concept centered around a high-craft café and private lounge, with a signature food menu built around creativity, quality, and memorable flavors.
We’re looking for a dynamic, hands-on female chef who thinks beyond the plate — someone with initiative, a strong palate, fresh ideas, and the ambition to help shape a new culinary identity from the ground up.
The Role
- Create and finalize a signature food program featuring 1–3 hero items and a bowl format.
- Build efficient prep systems optimized for speed, consistency, and quality.
- Establish recipes, specifications, portioning, and plating standards.
- Manage costing, yields, waste control, and vendor sourcing.
- Collaborate with the beverage lead on pairings, weekly specials, and creative food drops.
- Lead pre-opening tastings, kitchen operations, staff training, and SOP development.
- Help recruit and build the kitchen team as the concept grows.
- Maintain strict hygiene, food safety, and kitchen organization standards.
- Oversee the selection of small kitchen equipment.
Essential Qualities
- Creative, energetic, proactive, and passionate about food.
- Able to develop high-impact menus with a limited number of ingredients and SKUs.
- Strong palate and ability to create memorable dishes.
- Organized, reliable, fast, comfortable under pressure, and meticulous about kitchen hygiene.
- Commercially minded, with an understanding of food costing and margins.
- Comfortable working hands-on in a compact kitchen and wearing multiple hats during the first 18 months.
- Able to balance culinary creativity with consistency and efficiency.
Bonus Qualities
- Experience in modern Levantine cuisine, fine-casual dining, café food, or contemporary comfort food.
- Experience launching a new culinary concept.
- Interest in food styling, brand storytelling, and experience-led hospitality.
To Apply
Please send your CV, a portfolio of your dishes (photos), a short note describing one signature food item you would create for our concept, and your three favorite flavor pairings.
- We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just follow recipes, but brings ideas to life.
