Sous Chef

House of Bungalow — Surry Hills, Sydney
Full-time | $85,000–$95,000 + super, based on experience

House of Bungalow opens in Surry Hills later this year, a daytime café, an elevated restaurant and a late-night basement, all under one roof. The cooking is modern Spanish × Asian: fire-led, produce-driven, precise.

We're looking for one Sous Chef to be the Head Chef's second, and to help build this kitchen from the first day.

The role

You run the pass. Prep levels, consistency, and the standard of everything that leaves the kitchen sit with you, and the kitchen is yours when the Head Chef is away. Away from service you'll be across recipe costing and standardisation, ordering and supplier quality, stocktakes, rostering and labour, and bringing the brigade along. You'll work closely with the FOH leads to keep service moving.

It's an opening role and a properly hands-on one. You'll have real say in the menu, the systems and the culture here — and you'll own them too.

What we're looking for

• 4–6+ years in professional kitchens, at least two as Sous, Junior Sous or senior Chef de Partie

• Someone who's led a pass through a full, busy service in a quality kitchen

• A commercial head: food cost, yield, waste, portion control, labour

• Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery or Diploma of Hospitality, plus a Food Safety Supervisor certificate

• Calm, credible leadership, the kind of chef junior cooks want to work for

• Full Australian working rights, and availability across days, evenings and weekends

Experience in openings, hatted or premium-casual environments, live-fire cooking, shared plates, or Spanish and Asian cuisine is a real plus.

What we offer

• $85,000–$95,000 + super, reviewed at six months

• A genuine second-in-command role, with input into menu development, kitchen systems and team culture

• The chance to set a kitchen's standards from scratch rather than inherit someone else's

• A clear path toward Head Chef within a growing group

• Staff meals, training and venue benefits

How to apply

Send us your CV and a short note — half a page is plenty:

• The kitchen you're proudest of running, and what the volume looked like

• How you take hold of a pass when service starts going wrong

• Why House of Bungalow

We read the note before the CV, so please don't skip it. And if you're one box short but the rest of this sounds like you, write to us anyway - we'd rather read it.