Lead Kitchen Sous Chef: Elevate Menu & Guest Experience

Barcelona Wine Bar; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barcelona Wine Bar is seeking a Sous Chef to work under the Executive Chef, directing and coordinating food preparation in a high-volume kitchen. The role emphasizes hospitality, quality, and precise execution from kitchen to table.

The candidate will supervise staff, maintain hygiene standards, and support menu development while handling pressure with poise, and ensuring consistent, rustic dishes that showcase authentic flavors.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of high-volume kitchen experience.
• Culinary degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Commit to passionately, intensely, uncompromisingly humble hospitality and high-quality guest experience.
• Work with the executive chef to produce diversified menu items in accordance with the restaurant’s policy and vision.
• Monitor the hygiene and food safety standards of all stages of food preparation, starting with the ingredients and ending with the finished dish which leaves the kitchen.
• Handle volume and stress with poise and finesse.
• Organize and manage the expo process in the kitchen.
• Uphold the standard of high-quality food above all else.
• Understand that simple, rustic, authentic food takes as much - if not more - talent as dainty colors pooled in the middle of a big plate.

Skills

Passion for food

Wine knowledge

Guest experience

Supplier relationships

Time management

Active listening

Teach techniques

Menu software

Education

Culinary degree

Job description

Barcelona Wine Bar is seeking a Sous Chef to work under the Executive Chef, directing and coordinating food preparation in a high-volume kitchen. The role emphasizes hospitality, quality, and precise execution from kitchen to table.

The candidate will supervise staff, maintain hygiene standards, and support menu development while handling pressure with poise, and ensuring consistent, rustic dishes that showcase authentic flavors.