Hargrave Street Market located in True North Square-242 Hargrave Street is looking for a passionate and talented Sous Chef who thrives in a fast-paced kitchen and enjoys leading and inspiring a team. In this role, you'll work closely with our culinary leadership team to support daily kitchen operations and deliver an exceptional dining experience through creative, high-quality, and consistently executed dishes, including tapas and small plates.
What to be excited for in this role:
- Support daily kitchen operations, including preparation, line setup, service, and closing duties.
- Lead by example during busy service periods, ensuring efficient workflow and consistent food quality.
- Coordinate with front-of-house team members to deliver timely, accurate, and memorable guest experiences.
- Ensure tapas and small plates meet established recipe, portion, and presentation standards.
Inspire and Develop the Team
- Supervise, coach, and support cooks and other culinary team members.
- Assist with onboarding, station training, and ongoing skills development.
- Help coordinate station assignments, preparation priorities, and service coverage.
- Foster a positive, respectful, and accountable kitchen culture built on teamwork and professionalism.
Maintain Culinary Excellence
- Support menu updates, seasonal features, specials, and recipe testing.
- Maintain high standards for flavor, presentation, consistency, and portion control.
- Accommodate approved dietary requests and follow established allergy-management procedures.
- Identify opportunities to improve kitchen organization and service execution.
Support Inventory and Cost Control
- Assist with ordering, receiving, inventory counts, and proper product storage.
- Monitor food usage, portioning, waste, and spoilage to support food-cost goals.
- Ensure products are properly labelled, dated, rotated, and stored using FIFO practices.
- Communicate shortages, equipment concerns, and product-quality issues to culinary leadership.
Champion Food Safety and Cleanliness
- Maintain food-safety, sanitation, and workplace safety standards.
- Ensure kitchen stations, equipment, tools, and storage areas remain clean and organized.
- Follow safe food-handling practices, allergen controls, temperature monitoring, and cleaning schedules.
What we need from you:
- Several years of progressive professional kitchen experience, with previous supervisory or leadership experience preferred.
- Experience in a tapas, small-plates, or high-volume restaurant environment is an asset.
- Strong culinary fundamentals, knife skills, cooking techniques, and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, allergen management, and safe kitchen practices.
- A working understanding of inventory management, ordering, portion control, waste reduction, and food costs.
- Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.
- The ability to stay composed, organized, and detail-oriented in a fast-paced environment.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required.
- The ability to stand for extended periods and safely lift and carry kitchen supplies.
- Valid food-safety certification, or willingness to obtain it as required.
- Positive attitude, and commitment to delivering outstanding guest experience.
Accommodations are available upon request throughout all aspects of the selection process. Candidates requiring accommodations may contact, in confidence, joinourteam@hargravestmarket.com
Do you have a culinary diploma, certificate, or other relevant qualification?
Do you have a valid food safety certificate?
Are you legally entitled to work in Canada?
