Finding a Michelin Sommelier can be a big problem and jobs boards often produce the wrong people. In the green heart of Ireland, there’s a restaurant that’s quietly become a destination for serious food lovers, one of those rare places where the food, wine, and atmosphere all feel perfectly in sync. It has a reservation book full of diners for
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Walk past London’s bakeries, five-star Hotels or Michelin restaurants and desserts are now at the forefront of marketing as Instagram has pushed the pastry section to the front. The trouble is, while demand for patisserie is soaring, the people who make these items, pastry chefs—are becoming a rarer and rarer and harder to find. It’s not just a London problem,
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The Top 5 Ski Resorts with Michelin-Starred Restaurants Ranked Luxury travellers seek the perfect blend of exceptional skiing and michelin star dining. Since the days of Ritz and Escoffier during the winter seasons many of the best fine dining from the Riviera have de-camped to the European Alps for the season. In more modern times, ultra high net worth
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How do you create a dinner party to remember? How about by having the cooking overseen by the Head Chef from you favourite Michelin 3* restaurant or Sushi restaurant? This is a service thats becoming more popular offered by Gourmet Recruitment. To provide Signature Chefs for dinner parties and events, popular at Ski Chalets in the Winter and Italian, Greek and French
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Joël Robuchon, the King of Michelin Star restaurants who modernised the fine dining experience Joël Robuchon’s chef career was one of constant achievement. From being the youngest head chef in Paris to earning Three Michelin stars in record time, Robuchon’s restaurants eventually spanned three continents. After winning three Michelin stars Robuchon was awarded the prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France’s best
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Heading towards Christmas 2023, the Gourmet Recruitment team are finding the current hospitality jobs market still to be challenging and in drastically short supply of skilled staff. Many michelin restaurants and 5* hotels we work with have successfully brought in hospitality workers from the EU and beyond using skilled worker visas but still have roles to fill. There just don’t
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Average Private Chef Salary Guide This salary guide is an average salary calculated using placements made by Gourmet Recruitment in the last 2 years. In this time we’ve placed over 50 butlers to Private Chefs, HNWI homes, Yachts and Royal Residences. The salary guide provides an advantage not just for Private Chefs but for employers too, pay satisfaction enables the
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Average Butler Salaries This salary guide is an average salary calculated using placements made by Gourmet Recruitment in the last 2 years. In this time we have placed over 50 butlers to HNWI homes and Royal Residences. The salary guide provides an advantage not just for Butlers but for employers too, pay satisfaction enables the retention of current staff and
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Gourmet Recruitment were pleased to help a Ultra High Net Worth couple who love Michelin Star restaurants appoint a private chef from a 3 * Michelin restaurant background. The couple approached us with a brief to help find them a Private Chef with Michelin Star training and gave us a list of their five favourite Michelin restaurants which were: Alléno
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Gourmet Recruitment is a specialised restaurant and hotel recruitment agency based in the UK. We work with partners all over the world. Helping Hotels and Restaurants find the best Executive Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Director of Sales, Marketing Managers and many other Chef and hospitality positions from the bottom up . For many roles the best candidates are not actively looking
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