Chef on Beautiful Farm, Barn Dinners Neversink Farm
- Date Posted December 26, 2019
- Location Claryville, NY
- Category Agriculture / Culinary
- Job type Full-Time
We are looking for a full time chef to take the creative lead for a series of dinners, private events, brunches and pizza nights on our farm in the 100 year old barn.
We are planning a series of epic "table at the farm" dinners. The farm and farmer are very well known and he is working with a person from Mas, Blanca and Robertas who will manage front of the house.
The present plan is for 8 dinners at the beginning of the season. All will take place on a Sunday. After which, the hope is to have more. The entire season might be filmed by a crew so candidate must ok with being on camera.
In between these dinners, the Chef will manage pizza nights on Friday and Saturday and some Brunches.
We will also host some private parties.
The chef would be utilizing what is grown on the farm. Anything else will be sourced locally when available.
Season: From May through September (Looking to extend the season into winter with a heated space in the barn)
Weekly Schedule: Thursday to Sunday with (3 days) Monday to Wednesday off.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the team to create interesting and exciting menus for the barn dinners, pizza nights, and brunches and put together food orders.
- For the Barn Dinners there is Prep on a Saturday and cooking on the day of the event.
- Cook for creative and interesting brunches
- Run the pizza night using farm ingredients. Make spectacular and interesting pizzas and anything else in the wood fired oven.
- Help with value added farm food, bake bread, and create storage items during downtime.
- Plan and cook for private events in the Barn.
We are looking for someone who is creative, and wishes to work with fire and primarily local ingredients to create the most incredible food experiences in the Catskills. Come spend the summer in the Catskills and create your mini faviken at the farm.