Head Chef

Confidential Opportunity | Chef de Cuisine – Gourmet Café & Bakery A renowned standalone gourmet café and artisan bakery in the heart of Dubai is looking for a passionate and creative Chef de Cuisine to lead its culinary team. This is an opportunity to join a premium dining destination known for its handcrafted bakery offerings, exceptional café cuisine, and elevated guest experience. Key Responsibilities: • Lead all kitchen operations, ensuring exceptional quality, consistency, and presentation. • Create and refresh seasonal menus featuring artisan breads, viennoiserie, pastries, desserts, brunch, breakfast, and contemporary café dishes. • Drive culinary innovation while maintaining the outlet's unique identity and brand standards. • Oversee food cost, purchasing, inventory management, and labor productivity. • Train, mentor, and develop a high-performing culinary brigade. • Ensure full compliance with HACCP, food safety, and hygiene standards. • Collaborate closely with the Operations team to deliver an outstanding guest experience and achieve commercial objectives. We're looking for someone who has: ✔ Proven experience as a Chef de Cuisine, Executive Sous Chef, or Senior Sous Chef in a premium standalone café, artisan bakery, all-day dining concept, or upscale casual restaurant. ✔ Strong expertise in artisan bread, pastries, desserts, and modern café cuisine. ✔ A creative approach to menu development and food presentation. ✔ Solid experience managing kitchen operations, food cost, and team leadership. ✔ Experience in high-volume premium dining concepts is highly desirable. This is a confidential search on behalf of our client. Further details will be shared with shortlisted candidates. Due to the high volume of applications, only candidates whose experience closely matches the requirements outlined above will be contacted. Show more Show less

Proven experience as a Chef de Cuisine or equivalent (Executive Sous Chef/Senior Sous Chef) in premium standalone café, artisan bakery, all-day dining concept, or upscale casual restaurant; Strong expertise in artisan bread, pastries, desserts, and modern café cuisine; A creative approach to menu development and food presentation; Solid experience managing kitchen operations, food cost, and team leadership.

Lead all kitchen operations, ensuring exceptional quality, consistency, and presentation; Create and refresh seasonal menus featuring artisan breads, viennoiserie, pastries, desserts, brunch, breakfast, and contemporary café dishes; Drive culinary innovation while maintaining the outlet's unique identity and brand standards; Oversee food cost, purchasing, inventory management, and labor productivity; Train, mentor, and develop a high-performing culinary brigade; Ensure full compliance with HACCP, food safety, and hygiene standards; Collaborate closely with the Operations team to deliver an outstanding guest experience and achieve commercial objectives.