Chef de Cuisine

A family of three in Lower Manhattan is seeking a chef with a fine-dining or restaurant R&D background. This isn’t a typical private-chef role — it’s closer to running a personal test kitchen with the freedom to explore, refine, and create. The position suits someone who loves the craft and curiosity of cooking and wants to apply that discipline outside the grind of restaurant service.

You’ll have creative control and an environment designed for experimentation : exceptional ingredients, no menu repetition, and no service tickets — just time, focus, and freedom to make extraordinary food. The job offers saner hours, better balance, and stronger compensation than restaurant life, with every resource to do things properly.

About the Role

You’ll design and cook meals that are primarily seafood- and vegetable-forward, taking cues from ingredient-driven cuisines while freely exploring global influences. Health, balance, and creativity matter equally — meals should be delicious, nourishing, and original.

Because the family eats one or two meals per day (dinner and sometimes lunch), you’ll have time, and wide latitude to develop menus, experiment, and pursue culinary projects. The household values thoughtfulness, technical rigor, and curiosity over formality or showmanship.

Kitchen & Resources

The kitchen functions as a compact R&D lab :

• Dry agers, -80 °C freezer, Pacojet, laboratory equipment and fermentation gear
• Regular shipments of wild and pristine seafood from Toyosu and Amakusa, Spain and Portugal
• Produce from top local farms and specialty ingredients from an extensive network of foragers and suppliers
• An effectively unlimited ingredient budget for projects worth doing right

What You’ll Do

Who You Are

Schedule & Benefits

This is ideal for a chef who loves food R&D and wants a more sane pace — someone who finds pleasure in precision, experimentation, and craft rather than volume.

Competitive compensation, excellent ingredients, and an environment that values creativity, respect, and rigor.