Clos des Sens, a 5-star Relais & Châteaux hotel with a 3-Michelin-starred and green-starred gastronomic restaurant, is seeking a Resident Chef for Le Cortil, its summer restaurant located in the garden. The role involves developing and designing a menu aligned with Clos des Sens' culinary identity, overseeing culinary production, managing orders and stock, leading and training the kitchen team, and ensuring hygiene and safety standards. The establishment is known for its authentic, plant-based, and lake-inspired gastronomy, emphasizing local producers and permaculture.

Must Have

• Develop and design a menu in line with Clos des Sens' culinary identity
• Supervise and coordinate all culinary production
• Manage orders and monitor stock to control costs
• Manage, train, and support the kitchen team
• Ensure the application of hygiene and food safety standards
• Confirmed experience as a chef de partie or sous chef in a similar establishment
• Passion for local products and mastery of culinary techniques
• Excellent team management and organizational skills
• Rigor and demanding standards in hygiene and quality

Good to Have

• Sense of creativity and ability to innovate while respecting the restaurant's identity

Perks & Benefits

• Work continuous hours, service only in the evening
• Closed on Wednesdays
• Relais Team program offers discounts on stays in Relais & Châteaux establishments
• Numerous team activities to meet local artisans and explore local know-how
• Consciousness of good eating extends to both clients and teams

Company Description

HÔTEL* Relais & Châteaux with 11 rooms.

RESTAURANT GASTRONOMIQUE*** Michelin and green star, Member of Les Grandes Tables du Monde.

"Discovery" menu offered in 4, 7 or 9 flavors.

CELLAR

1500 references, including 500 aging and 200 from the Alpine arc.

Company Description:

A few bends from Lake Annecy, facing the Bauges massif, Thomas Lorival and Franck Derouet sign an authentic and committed plant-based and lake-inspired Gastronomy. Inspired by vital essentials, Mother Earth and conviviality at heart, the singular gastronomy of the House reflects both the inspiration of their permaculture garden and that of a pantry nourished by ultra-short circuit producers and artisans. An expression of a rich and wild territory sublimated on the plate, the culinary proposal reaches its peak in food & juice pairings in total fusion to the ultimate.

Just as cuisine merges with sommelier, at Clos des Sens, the entrepreneurial will of a united collective prevails.

Thus, everyone is given the opportunity to reveal their own talent and contribute their potential to the edifice, like water bringing it to the mill, to become one, together.

Do you wish to work at the heart of a participatory spirit, in the construction and evolution of a 3-star House with a natural and asserted identity?

Are you open to curiosity, reflection, questioning, and the desire for common evolution around the same theme?

Do you love the earth, pure tastes, and the expression of vital essentials?

Joining Clos des Sens means entering a demanding and benevolent, rigorous and creative, courageous and energetic family, a reassuring core carried by the transmission of a common philosophy of life.

Kitchen, dining room or hotel reception, enter the heart of a committed House.

Job Description

Resident Chef for Le Cortil (summer restaurant) located in the heart of the Clos des Sens garden

• Develop and design a menu in line with Clos des Sens' culinary identity
• Supervise and coordinate all culinary production.
• Manage orders and monitor stock to control costs.
• Manage, train, and support the kitchen team.
• Ensure the application of hygiene and food safety standards.

Qualifications

• Confirmed experience as a chef de partie / or sous chef in a similar establishment
• Passion for local products and mastery of culinary techniques.
• Excellent team management and organizational skills.
• Sense of creativity and ability to innovate while respecting the restaurant's identity.
• Rigor and demanding standards in hygiene and quality.

Additional Information

BENEFITS: (Highlight your benefits)

• Work continuous hours, service only in the evening. Closed on Wednesdays.

The Relais Team program allows you to benefit from discounts on your stays in Relais & Châteaux establishments.

Numerous team activities allow you to meet our local artisans and extend your curiosity to local know-how.

Our consciousness of good eating extends to both our clients and our teams.

Position to be filled from May 2026