Head Chef

Head Chef – Lotti’s

We're looking for an ambitious Head Chef with energy, passion and personality to join the team at The Hoxton, Amsterdam.

Lotti's is ever evolving and getting a fresh new look and feel later this year. We're keeping our European roots but turning up the heat with bold Latin-inspired flavours, colourful seasonal dishes and cocktails with a bit of spice. It's the neighbourhood hangout everyone knows and loves, just with a little more attitude.

We're giving the space a full refresh and launching a brand-new menu, making this the perfect opportunity for a Head Chef to put their own stamp on Lotti's. From building an exciting seasonal menu to leading a talented kitchen team, you'll have the freedom to shape the next chapter of one of Amsterdam's favourite neighbourhood spots.

If you love cooking with seasonal ingredients, creating dishes full of flavour, a perfect consistent plating, and leading a team that loves what they do, we'd love to meet you.

More about us…

Once the Mayor’s home, now our home, on Amsterdam’s Herengracht canal. The Hoxton, Amsterdam houses 111 rooms, The Apartment, our meetings and events concept, and our all-day restaurant and bar, Lotti’s.

The Hoxton is a series of open-house hotels, each in a neighbourhood that we love. Ever since we opened our first hotel in Shoreditch, we’ve never just been about offering a bed for the night. We want to be more than that: proving style doesn’t need to be sacrificed for good value and providing a place where guests can hang out alongside the locals and submerse themselves in the neighbourhood with vibrant, welcoming public spaces.

What you'll do

• Bring delicious flavours to our guests’ tables by managing our busy kitchen.
• Create, execute, and produce top-notch food with a constant eye on the highest quality standards, presentation, and flavour, with an eye on industry trends and neighbourhood demands.
• Own the coordination and creative process of seasonal and festive menu development and work together with our Director of F&B, our Sales team and London team on a commercially successful menu.
• Create visually appealing dishes ahead of or in line with current trends. Ensure consistency: perfect plating every time.
• Make sure things run smoothly, orders and deliveries are organized, our service is seamless and our food hygiene standards are sky-high.
• Nurture and develop the talent of the kitchen team, creating an environment that brings out the best in them and where they can be themselves.
• Work with the team on ideas and techniques that make our kitchen a creative, ever-changing environment where we’re always looking to come up with new, delicious combinations of tastes.
• Maintain good relationships with suppliers and have a clear overview of overall cost control.
• Keep well-organized storerooms and inventories to enable a smooth-running kitchen.
• Ensure statutory compliance in all food and drink related areas.

Qualifications

• You’re looking for a place where you can be you; no clones in suits here.
• Passion for hospitality, whether that’s a drink, a meal, an event or a bed for the night.
• You’re about having a positive impact on the people you interact with, leaving them with a memorable experience.
• You’re not precious. We leave our egos at the door and help get things done.
• You’re up for doing things differently and trying almost everything once.
• If we got stuck in a lift together we’d have a good time and share a few laughs.
• You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other and has fun along the way.
• Experience as a senior leader/head chef in a similar or transferable venture.
• You own your P&L; assume complete recipe and GP responsibility; supplier management and overall cost control.
• Passion for food is essential; a love for our particular flavours is a definite advantage.
• You value learning and development and are looking to join a hard-working team aiming to deliver the best food.
• You’ll live and breathe food and drink, knowing what’s hot, what’s not and who’s who.
• You make people feel good – your team, guests and colleagues alike.
• Methodical and process-driven, but you can work flexibly and calmly to meet deadlines.
• Ability to take ownership of important issues, solve problems and make effective decisions.
• Ability to work positively and collaboratively to achieve the highest standards of delivery.