Head Chef

• Hospitality Head Chef - Canary Wharf
• Hospitality | Fine Dining | Contract Catering

We are looking for an experienced, creative and highly organised Head Chef to lead the kitchen.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate chef who thrives on delivering high-quality food, creating memorable dining experiences and managing a varied hospitality offering. With a growing focus on fine dining over the next year, this role offers the chance to bring fresh ideas, elevate menus and help shape the future of the food offering across both sites.

From beautifully presented fine-dining dishes to corporate conferences, sandwich platters and large-scale events for up to 350 guests, no two days will be the same.

What you'll be doing as Hospitality Head Chef

• Lead culinary operations across two sites, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, presentation and service.
• Deliver exceptional fine dining, including menu development, creative plating and meticulous preparation
• Oversee conference and corporate catering, delivering high-quality food for meetings, conferences and business events.
• Manage large-scale events of up to 350 guests, ensuring smooth planning, preparation and execution.
• Develop menus and concepts across fine dining, event catering, conference dining and sandwich platters, balancing creativity with commercial awareness.
• Lead and develop the kitchen team, working closely with the Sous Chef and supporting a brigade of six.
• Build strong client relationships, understanding client requirements and delivering a consistently excellent service.
• Manage kitchen logistics, including staffing, ordering, stock control, food costs, preparation schedules and service delivery.
• Maintain the highest standards of food hygiene, health and safety and kitchen organisation.
• Bring new ideas and innovation to the food offering, helping drive the evolution towards a more premium, fine-dining-led experience.

We are looking for a confident and creative Head Chef who combines culinary flair with strong organisational and logistical skills.