Sous Chef - Monday to Friday in City of London, London

£50,000 + PAID OVERTIME | 40 Hours | 6:30am-3:30pm | NO EVENINGS

Are you a Sous Chef looking for a role that combines restaurant-quality food, creativity and international cuisine with genuine work-life balance?

We're recruiting for an experienced Sous Chef to join one of London's most exciting and progressive premium contract catering operations, delivering high-end corporate dining, vibrant street food concepts and globally inspired cuisine.

And importantly, this is not your typical B&I kitchen.

You'll be working in a dynamic, food-led environment where the offer genuinely rivals the high street, with multiple street food concepts, live cooking, restaurant-quality dining and constantly changing international menus.

This is a premium corporate dining operation built around great food, creativity and current food trends.

The kitchen delivers a varied food offer including:

• Global and international cuisine

• Rotating street food concepts

• Live cooking stations

• Restaurant-quality staff dining

• Seasonal and fresh food

• Modern, trend-led menus

• High-volume retail service

• Premium hospitality and events

Chefs are encouraged to bring ideas to the table, influence menus and help develop new concepts rather than simply following a set menu.

If you're passionate about street food, global flavours and modern food trends, this is a kitchen where you can genuinely use that creativity.

As Sous Chef, you'll work closely with the Head Chef to lead a busy, high-volume, multi-offer kitchen.

You'll play a key role in maintaining standards, developing the team and ensuring the food offer remains exciting, consistent and commercially successful.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Head Chef with the day-to-day running of the kitchen

• Leading a high-volume retail food operation

• Delivering creative street food and global cuisine concepts

• Supporting menu development and seasonal food concepts

• Helping introduce new dishes and food trends

• Leading, training and developing the kitchen team

• Maintaining exceptional food quality and presentation

• Managing service in a fast-paced environment

• Supporting GP, stock and waste control

• Ensuring food safety and hygiene standards are maintained

• Driving creativity, innovation and continuous improvement

This role could suit an experienced Sous Chef from premium contract catering, particularly someone with strong retail food experience.

Equally, we'd love to hear from restaurant, hotel or hospitality Chefs who have a strong passion for international cuisine and are looking to move into a premium B&I environment without compromising on food quality.

You'll ideally have:

• Previous experience as a Sous Chef, or be a strong Junior Sous Chef ready to step up

• Experience within contract catering, retail catering, restaurants, hotels or high-volume fresh food kitchens

• A genuine passion for global cuisine, street food and modern food trends

• Experience working with fresh, seasonal and quality ingredients

• Strong leadership and team management skills

• Confidence working in a high-volume kitchen

• Good commercial awareness, including GP, stock and waste control

• A hands-on approach and strong work ethic

• Creativity and a desire to contribute ideas

• Excellent organisation and communication skills

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who is passionate about food, enjoys leading a team and wants to work somewhere that actually encourages creativity.

• £50,000 salary

• Paid overtime

• Monday-Friday

• 40-hour contract

• 6:30am-3:30pm

• No evening service

• Genuine work-life balance

• Premium corporate dining environment

• Opportunity to work with global cuisine and street food concepts

• Real creative input into menus and food concepts

• Opportunity to work alongside an experienced senior kitchen team

• Strong training and development

• Genuine career progression opportunities

• A supportive, people-focused culture

• A food-led operation where quality is genuinely taken seriously

If you've worked in restaurants and love food, creativity and the buzz of service, but you're ready for a better work-life balance, this could be the ideal move.

Equally, if you're already working in premium contract catering and want to step into a more creative, progressive food operation, this is an opportunity worth exploring.

You'll get the Monday-Friday lifestyle and daytime hours of a corporate role, without sacrificing the quality, creativity and variety you'd expect from a high-end restaurant environment.

If you're an experienced Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef with a passion for fresh food, global cuisine, street food and modern food trends, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the role.

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