The De Beauvoir Deli is a fine food store and café on the Hackney-Islington border, open 7 days a week. We offer a wide array of artisanal groceries alongside homemade treats from our café. These include a seasonal salad bar, a daily soup and hot dish during the winter, savoury pastries such as quiches and sausage rolls, Pies, scotch eggs as well as an assortment of cakes and pastries.
We are recruiting a Pastry Chef to join our small kitchen team in a new role this September. To date, we have kept our baking simple, with a familiar range of homemade classics, but we are keen to build on this and grow the baking side of the business with a specialist chef. We’re looking for someone experienced in patisserie, and cake baking/decoration, perhaps looking to move away from the stress and hours of restaurant kitchens, with a view to expanding our offering in this area, including birthday and wedding cake orders.
Due to the small size of our team, the successful candidate must be willing to cover other kitchen roles during the annual leave of other chefs, up to 25 shifts per year, in the cooking of pre-made food (no service) including the savoury items mentioned above.
We close for 5 days over Christmas and Easter Sunday, but otherwise are open 7 days a week. For this role, we can be flexible about which shifts are regularly worked and may also be open to recruiting someone part-time.