Head Chef - Lead Menus & Kitchen Excellence (Live-in)
Posted 2 days 3 hours ago by Only Chefs Ltd
Competitive salary + tronc + live-in accommodation Permanent, year-round
Y Bryncynan is a stone-built food pub on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, recently taken on under new ownership and being repositioned as one of the region's leading food destinations. We're looking for a Head Chef to lead the kitchen and help us get there.
This is a serious role for a serious chef. You'll have real input of the menu and the direction of the business, and a working relationship with directors who care about food, listen to your voice, and want you to push standards as far as they'll go.
The foodFresh, modern British, built around local Welsh produce. The current menu already runs proper craft - 48-hour braised beef ragu, dry-aged Welsh pork belly with cider and wholegrain mustard, house focaccia and sourdough, fresh chicken & wild mushroom gnocchi, Menai mussels, slow-cooked Welsh beef, Welsh rarebit crumpets. Made in-house, no shortcuts, no freezer-to-fryer.
Your job is to take it further. We want a Head Chef who'll shape menus, drive standards, develop the brigade, and treat the kitchen like it's their own.
What you'll own- Full ownership of the kitchen-service, sections, pass, and standards
- Menu development, seasonal specials, and supplier relationships
- GP management, food cost control, ordering and waste
- Recruiting, training and developing the brigade
- Health & safety, food safety, and HACCP compliance
- Working directly with the directors on the food direction of the business
- Proven Head Chef or strong Senior Sous experience in a fresh-food pub, gastropub, or rosette-level kitchen
- Real menu development and creative flair
- Strong commercial head-GP, food cost, labour control
- Calm, fair leadership style that builds and retains good teams
- Genuine ambition to grow with the business
- Competitive salary, negotiable based on experience
- Tronc on top
- Live-in accommodation available - quality room on-site, walking distance to the kitchen
- Permanent, year-round contract- we trade 12 months
- Company pension
- Free meals on shift, staff discount off duty
- Free on-site parking
- Single site now, with more planned - real progression for the right person
One of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the UK - coast, surf, mountains, proper Welsh community, and a strong regional food scene with the likes of Plas Bodegroes, Dylan's and Porth Tocyn on the doorstep. Quality of life is genuine here, not a line in a job ad.
If you're a Head Chef who wants to be involved in building something proper, with directors who'll back you and a business with room to grow, this is the role.