In the heart of historic Westminster, Old Queen Street Café (OQSC) is a British brasserie offering refined food in a relaxed, elegant setting. OQSC comprises a 50-cover restaurant, events space, and private members’ club and is located moments from Parliament within a beautifully restored townhouse.
Lantana leads the creation and delivery of this unique hospitality experience on behalf of our client, political and cultural magazine UnHerd.
We are looking for a Head Chef to join our Executive Head Chef in leading the kitchen team. You must have experience in a Head Chef role within a quality, event driven, high-volume hospitality environment and be passionate about food and hospitality.
What You’ll Be Doing
Working with our Executive Head Chef to create and deliver seasonal menus
Inspiring and developing the kitchen team through coaching, structured feedback, and clear expectations
Maintaining high operational standards across cleanliness, safety, and compliance
Ensuring all food is delivered to spec and with consistency in the restaurant, for events and private dining
Supporting recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing training to build a confident, capable team
Managing stock control to deliver strong gross profit, minimising waste and shrinkage
Monitoring labour and flexing the rota to maintain productivity targets
Ensuring accurate reporting and adherence to all financial procedures
Working closely with your GM to unite FOH and BOH
What We’ll Be Doing In Return:
Offering a quarterly performance bonus of up to 20% of your salary
Paying overtime!
Developing your skills for whatever your future career might be; with us or elsewhere
An extra day off on your birthday (or the day after….)!
Serving team meals that are always from the menu
Providing an annual CODE app subscription
Giving 50% discount in any of our restaurants
Enrolling you onto the Hospitality Action Support Group
Celebrating with you at team parties
You must have proof of right to work in the UK to join us.
Lantana is proud to be a London business and wishes to support the communities that it operates in. It will do this by giving priority to those that live within London or Greater London, which will also have additional environmental benefits.
Lantana values a diverse workforce and believes that people from different backgrounds can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
