Palm Club | Williamstown, Melbourne
Full-time | Market-competitive salary based on experience

HEAD CHEF — BRING YOUR CREATIVITY TO A NEW CARIBBEAN-INSPIRED VENUE

SEEK highlights

- Shape the menu and kitchen culture of a brand-new Williamstown venue
- Create vibrant dishes with Caribbean flavour—without cooking the same menu every week
- Genuine creative freedom backed by supportive, hands-on owners

TIRED OF PREPARING THE SAME DISHES EVERY WEEK?

Let’s get creative.

Palm Club is a new island-inspired café and bar coming to Nelson Place in Williamstown—and we’re searching for a Head Chef who wants to build something with personality.

This is not a position where you’ll be handed a tired menu and told to reproduce it forever.

We want someone excited to explore bold flavours, develop new dishes and bring a modern Caribbean flair to Melbourne’s café and dining scene.

By day, Palm Club will serve quality coffee, breakfast favourites with an island twist, toasties and vibrant lunches. As the sun goes down, the venue will transition into an island social featuring share plates, cocktails, wine, live music and relaxed Caribbean hospitality.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

You’ll join Palm Club before opening and help shape the kitchen from the ground up.

Working closely with the owners, you’ll have the opportunity to:

- Refine and develop our launch menu
- Put your own creative stamp on future dishes and specials
- Introduce customers to exciting Caribbean-inspired flavours
- Build practical kitchen systems that deliver speed and consistency




- Select suppliers and help establish strong purchasing relationships
- Recruit, train and lead the kitchen team
- Create a positive, respectful and organised kitchen culture
- Influence how Palm Club’s food offering grows over time

We already have a clear direction and launch-menu foundation. Now we need the right chef to help turn that vision into food people will return for.

THE FOOD

Our menu will be focused, approachable and built for repeatability.

Expect breakfast dishes with a Caribbean twist, signature toasties, colourful lunches and evening share plates such as jerk wings, fish cakes, plantain, macaroni pie and other island-inspired flavours.

You don’t need to have spent your entire career cooking Caribbean food. What matters is that you respect the cuisine, understand flavour and are genuinely excited to learn, experiment and develop something different.

ABOUT YOU

You may be the right fit if you:

- Have experience as a Head Chef, Sous Chef or senior kitchen leader
- Can confidently manage preparation and service
- Understand recipe costing, margins, portion control and wastage
- Can create exciting food while remaining commercially disciplined
- Care about consistency, presentation and service speed




- Communicate clearly and lead people with respect
- Are organised, reliable and calm under pressure
- Enjoy developing staff and building effective kitchen systems
- Want genuine ownership rather than simply stepping into another routine role

Experience with Caribbean, Latin, African, island-style or flavour-driven cuisine would be highly regarded, but it isn’t essential.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

As Head Chef, you’ll take responsibility for:

- Menu development and ongoing seasonal specials
- Recipe documentation and food costing
- Ordering, stock control and supplier management
- Food safety, cleanliness and kitchen compliance
- Kitchen recruitment, training and rostering
- Preparation systems and service standards
- Labour, wastage and cost control
- Consistent quality across breakfast, lunch and evening service
- Building a kitchen culture people genuinely want to be part of

WHY PALM CLUB?

Palm Club is being created as more than another café or restaurant.

It will be a place where outstanding food, cocktails, music and community come together—somewhere guests can start with coffee, stay for lunch and return for sunset drinks.

You’ll be joining at the beginning, with the opportunity to influence the menu, establish the kitchen and help build one of Williamstown’s most distinctive new hospitality venues.

If you’re tired of cooking the same food every week and want the freedom to create something fresh, vibrant and memorable, we’d love to hear from you.

No passport required.

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