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Sous Chef

The Straw Kitchen
Whichford, Cotswolds

Posted: 28 May 2025

Deadline: 5 Jul 2025

Compensation: £13.60 per hour

Paid Flexible hours Permanent

Job description

The Straw Kitchen is one of the most exciting places to eat in the Cotswolds right now. We were voted Best Cafe in the 2024 Slow Travel Awards. We are a female-led cafe/ restaurant serving over 200 covers daily, with a strong focus on seasonality, sustainability and foods from around the world.

We are looking for a dedicated Chef to join our kitchen team asap. If you want to work in a restaurant that strongly values:

• The best seasonal, local, well farmed produce
• Culinary creative challenges
• Foraged, fermented and preserved foods
• A collaborative minded, female-led, low-ego kitchen
• Very busy service
• Muddy hands growing and digging in our kitchen garden
• Good pay, 100% tips + 1 full month’s holiday pay + yearly bonus
• Day time working hours only - genuine work-life balance respected
• Sundays off
• Free monthly sauna session @ The Wild Sauna

You will be working alongside our existing female-led kitchen team, take part in daily prep for service and run a very busy service. 

We expect you to:

• Have experience working a busy service 
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• The usual understanding of kitchen operations - stock rotation and inventory levels
• In-depth knowledge of food safety practices
• Concern for and understanding of sustainable kitchen practices

Tuesday - Saturday (Thursday Off)

Daily hours - 8am-5.30pm Working year - March - December - January & February off

Open to a job share - Flexible holidays

Experience is necessary but we are ready to train entry level chefs if you love food and are a quick learner. Pay will vary accordingly.

Application information

If this is for you, please send us your CV and a bit about yourself to thestrawkitchen@gmail.com

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