The Canonbury Tavern is a short walk from Highbury and Islington tube station, on Canonbury Place. This historic pub with its large garden has been rapidly gaining a reputation for serving some of the finest British seasonal food in London.
The pub has a restaurant with a garden , bar area, beer garden and a private function room. We host a lot of weddings and private parties.
New opportunity not to be missed!
Young’s has a unique opportunity available for a Head Chef to join the team in The Canonbury Tavern The role is a full time, permanent position offering a salary of £36-38 k per annum plus excellent benefits. Pubs have been at the very heart of Young’s since the Company was established in 1831, and today we have over 170 pubs and hotels, from contemporary vibrant pubs to small warm and friendly traditional favourites at the heart of their community. Our pubs provide our customers with a well-balanced and exciting choice of both food and drink, and our award winning design approach is unique to each pub and hotel. Our food offer reflects our emphasis on high quality seasonal British food, locally sourced and prepared in-house. Our pubs deliver individual menus according to the needs of their community and customer base. We believe in developing our people to delight our customers.
What are the responsibilities of the Head Chef?
You will be responsible for the management of the kitchen team, ensuring service standards, food quality and compliance expectations are met at all times. You will be responsible for training the team to ensure they have the knowledge needed to delight our customers and deliver outstanding food. You will develop, implement and review the menu throughout the year, demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of our food strategy through delivery of freshly cooked, British seasonal dishes and pub classics. You will be responsible for delivering the budgeted food General Practitioner % through weekly stock management and manage kitchen performance against financial targets, business risk compliance and standards.
What do we look for in a Head Chef?
Our food offer reflects our emphasis on high quality seasonal British food, locally sourced and prepared in-house and our Head Chefs and their team have the autonomy to deliver their own individual dishes according to the needs and wants of our customers. We are looking for a natural leader with a passion and flare for producing quality fresh food in a fulfilling environment. You will have experience working in a similar environment and demonstrate a passion for leading and developing a team to deliver outstanding food every time. You will be an active team player with excellent communication skills and be responsible and able to manage the kitchen safely and effectively at all times. You will be able to demonstrate your creativity and ability by designing and delivering new dishes for our menus and daily specials, whilst demonstrating great planning and organisational skills to maintain effective controls with regards to both General Practitioner and labour. You will have a pro-active approach to driving sales and delivering growth through engagement with the kitchen and front of house teams.
We offer our Head Chef a fantastic benefits package! In return for your passion and commitment we offer £36K-38k per annum, 28 days holiday, 20% discount in all Young’s and Geronimo managed pubs and hotels, a fun and rewarding working environment and excellent career progression opportunities with our successful development programs and accredited Chef Academy.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join a multiple award winning company as our Head Chef.