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About the Role
A prestigious private family in New York is seeking an exceptional Private Chef with extensive professional culinary experience to oversee all culinary requirements of the household and manage the kitchen end to end. The role requires the preparation of exceptional daily cuisine tailored to the family's preferences, lifestyle, and dietary requirements, with particular strength in healthy, flavorful, and nutritionally balanced cooking. Expertise in Indian cuisine is a top priority, alongside the ability to handle frequent VIP entertaining and private dinners. The Chef must maintain the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, and hygiene.
Responsibilities
- Prepare exceptional daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and other meals.
- Create healthy, flavorful, and nutritionally balanced cuisine tailored to the family's dietary requirements and preferences.
- Bring strong expertise in Indian cuisine alongside broad knowledge of international cuisines.
- Develop seasonal and bespoke menus using premium and specialty ingredients.
- Maintain consistently high standards of taste, presentation, creativity, and execution.
- Adapt menus seamlessly to changing family preferences, dietary requirements, schedules, and ingredient availability.
- Design bespoke menus and multi course meals for private dinners, VIP entertaining, and formal events.
- Cater confidently for high profile, business, and diplomatic guests.
- Execute both intimate family meals and larger scale private events to the same high standard.
- Collaborate with household and service teams to ensure seamless event execution.
- Source and procure the highest quality ingredients from trusted suppliers.
- Manage kitchen inventory, food costs, equipment, and kitchen organization.
- Maintain impeccable food safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards.
- Coordinate seamlessly with household staff as the team continues to grow.
- Accompany the family during domestic and international travel as required, with occasional extended trips of up to 3 weeks.
- Adapt culinary operations to different locations, kitchens, schedules, and ingredient availability.
- Maintain complete confidentiality and discretion regarding the family, guests, schedules, and household affairs.
- Adhere strictly to household privacy, security, and access protocols.
- Willingness to undergo comprehensive pre-employment background and health screenings, including medical, psychological, and toxicology assessments, along with mandated annual vaccinations.
Requirements
- Full legal eligibility to work in the United States, independent of sponsorship requirements.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including trips of up to 3 weeks.
- Comprehensive understanding of national food safety protocols and hygiene standards, accompanied by a valid ServSafe credential.
- Strong verifiable references, subject to reference and background verification.
Skills
- High end restaurant experience
- Private family experience
- Michelin starred or recognized kitchen experience
- World class fine dining experience
- Healthy, flavorful, and nutritionally balanced cooking
- International cuisines
- Indian cuisine expertise
- Menu planning
- Food procurement
- Inventory management
- Kitchen organization
- Food safety
- VIP entertaining
- Private dinners
- Formal events
- Professionalism
- Discretion
- Hygiene
- Service
- Creativity
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Composure under pressure
- Working seamlessly within a private household
- Working alongside household management and service staff
- Flexibility
- Family first mindset
- Health conscious approach to cooking
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full time
- 5 days per week
- Approximately 50 to 60 hours weekly
Experience Level
- Minimum of 8+ years in world class fine dining or equivalent high caliber environments
- A decade of professional expertise is highly desired
Education Level
- Formal culinary degree or a recognized standard of professional gastronomic education
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 to $180,000 per year
About the Company
- A prestigious private family in New York