Chef de Partie (full time)

Cà Phê Mai, Double Bay

About the venue

Cà Phê Mai is a contemporary Vietnamese cafe by day and natural wine bar by night, on Kiaora Lane in Double Bay. We opened in June. In October the Sydney Morning Herald Positive Food Guide named us a finalist for New Restaurant of the Year, and listed us in both the 100 Essential Restaurants and the 10 Essential Cafes for 2027. The food is a big part of why. We would like you to help us keep earning it.

Hours

Monday: takeaway coffee only, kitchen closed
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am to 10pm
Sunday: 11am to 3pm

The food

The cooking is contemporary Vietnamese, seen through a Viet Kieu lens: the way the diaspora cooks here, with Australian produce and a wine list on the other side of the pass. Some of it is family recipe, the phở stock most of all. The rest pushes forward. Lunch is bánh mì, phở, laksa and vermicelli bowls. Dinner moves into wine bar territory: oysters, crudo, grilled prawns with sambal butter, a steak, plates to share and a short dessert list. The menu moves with the seasons and there are regular specials on top of it.

About the role

You run a section across lunch and dinner, working with our head chef and sous chef. Lunch is quick and busy. Dinner is plated, slower and built around the wine list. You prep your own section, cook to the spec every time and keep your bench tight when the dockets stack up. We care about a quiet Tuesday as much as a full Saturday night.

What you’ll do





- Run your section through lunch and dinner service

- Prep, label and rotate to the daily prep list

- Cook and plate to written specs, the same way every service

- Learn every section so you can cover the line

- Check in deliveries and keep storage in order

- Keep food safety and cleaning standards tight

- Open or close the kitchen as rostered

Who we’re after

- At least two years on a section in a busy restaurant, bistro or wine bar kitchen

- Cert III in Commercial Cookery or an equivalent trade qualification

- Clean, organised and consistent. The tenth plate looks like the first

- Interested in Vietnamese and South East Asian flavours. You do not need to have cooked them professionally, but you need to want to learn them

- Calm on the line and good to work next to

- The right to work in Australia in an ongoing full-time role

- Available Saturdays and Sundays. Sunday is a day shift and it is not negotiable

What’s on offer

- Full time, $75,000 to $80,000 plus super depending on experience, under the Restaurant Industry Award

- Public holidays paid at penalty rates on top of salary

- Kitchen closed Mondays. Last seating 9.30pm, bar closes 10pm

- Kitchen share of tips, paid weekly

- Staff meal on shift, coffee whenever you want it

- A head chef and sous chef who will teach you the food properly

- A kitchen that has already been noticed, and a menu that keeps moving

Instagram: instagram.com/ca.phe.mai
Website: caphemai.com.au

📌 Chef de Partie - Contemporary Vietnamese Cafe and Wine Bar, Double Bay
🏢 Ca Phe Mai
📍 Double Bay