Culinary Development Chef

Employment type: FULLTIME. Requisition: 8479881. Do you want to make your culinary mark on Donna? We are looking for a highly skilled chef with experience, strong opinions and a genuine passion for Italian food.

You may have worked as a Head Chef or Sous Chef for several years and still love being hands-on with the food – developing dishes, tasting, adjusting and constantly making things better – but would now like to spend more of your time on food and culinary development and less on administration and people management. At Donna, you will play a central role in the restaurant’s culinary development.

Your role

Together with our Head Chef and culinary team, you will help develop Donna and take the food to the next level.

Your responsibilities will include

- developing new dishes and menus - improving existing dishes - testing ingredients, techniques and recipes - sourcing specialist suppliers and ingredients - ensuring that dishes both taste exceptional and work in a busy restaurant environment - training the kitchen team in new dishes and ensuring consistent quality - following dishes all the way from initial idea and testing through to service and the guest’s plate - contributing to Donna’s long-term culinary direction For us, development should never happen in isolation from the day-to-day operation1 …