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SOUS CHEF

Join the hospitality revolution as the full-time Sous Chef for Adventure Dinner!

Adventure Dinner is rewriting the script for what it means to be a 21st century chef, starting with a sustainable work lifestyle and emotionally intelligent leadership.The Sous Chef position includes a mix of daytime work and evening event execution and offers schedule flexibility: we work a Tuesday through Saturday schedule and each work 2 events a week. 

This practice is to afford a work/life balance for our team: it means more flexibility to do school pickups, keep your workout routines, maintain your friendships, and pick up hobbies. We believe this balance is crucial to employee satisfaction and forges a more sustainable hospitality industry. 

About The Role

The Sous Chef role requires experience in farm-to-table cuisine, open-fire cooking, managing diverse teammates, collaborative menu development, and innovative leadership. Each day holds creativity and collaboration as we work together to put on over 100 events a year.

Our kitchen embraces a diversity of viewpoints and cultural identities. Adventure Dinner’s culinary team is a place of learning, inclusion, and development where we foster a safe environment for hospitality professionals–a tone set and reflected in our Executive Chef. The ideal candidate should embrace teaching and creativity as part of our role in the hospitality industry.  

How We Cook

Adventure Dinner combines seasonally-driven fare with creative themes and concepts. We work directly with VT farms to source the highest quality meats, fresh produce, and unique ingredients that we transform into refined and approachable dishes and drinks. To reflect this approach, we seek a sous chef who has experience in a variety of different cuisines and techniques, including cooking over live fire.

Must haves:

  • Volume cooking production experience

  • Experience on a variety of stations in a restaurant setting

  • Passion for hospitality, food, and beverage 

  • Ability to lift 50 lbs and stand for a full shift 

  • Ability to take direction and receive constructive feedback  

  • Ability to work independently and also as part of a dynamic team 

  • Ability to maintain composure while under pressure 

  • Ability to communicate your feelings clearly

  • Eagerness to jump into new experiences

  • Leadership skills for effective kitchen teams

  • Ability to execute multi-course meals outside of a traditional kitchen setting

  • Tuesday - Saturday work schedule 

Nice to have:

  • Pastry experience

We’re not a good fit for:

  • Egos

  • Racists, Sexists, Homophobes

  • Pretentiousness

EVENT BARTENDERS

Do you love making people happy through delicious drinks? Do you like working in a variety of new experiences and settings? Adventure Dinner is looking for you to join our team!

Adventure Dinner is hiring bartenders to work at our Clubhouse event venue and our offsite Adventures.This is a part-time, flexible position but you must have availability on Fridays or Saturdays. 

This role is a great opportunity for hospitality folks looking for a fun, healthy environment to practice their craft. We approach work as a team, and support work life balance and wellness for our employees both on the clock and off. Additionally, Adventure Dinner seeks candidates that embrace a diversity of viewpoints and cultural identities.

Our guests clamour for our culinary-driven, creative cocktail and mocktail lists, which we serve alongside local brewers and hand-made wine from around the globe. Adventure Dinner’s drinks and food have been highlighted in Imbibe, Food + Wine, Travel and Leisure, The Washington Post and many more.

Must haves: 

  • Passion for hospitality, food, and beverage 

  • Cocktail bartending experience

  • Ability to clearly communicate your feelings

  • Ability to lift 50 pounds and stand for a full shift

  • Eagerness to jump into new experiences

  • Ability to take direction and constructive feedback  

  • Ability to work independently as well as on a dynamic team 

  • Ability to maintain composure while under pressure 

We’re not a good fit for:

  • Egos

  • Racists, Sexists, or Homophobes 

  • Pretentiousness

Adventure Dinner shares our tip pool equally across front of house and back of house teammates, and guarantees a livable wage ($25 per hour) for all employees. 

To apply, please fill out the form below! 

About Us

Adventure Dinner hosts creative, seasonally-driven dinners and events throughout Vermont. We are a woman-owned small business that values inclusivity, connection, and supporting our local food system. We seek candidates that embrace a diversity of viewpoints and cultural identities.

Adventure Dinner’s unique approach to cooking and gathering has been featured in Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine, NBC’s First Look, Imbibe, among others.

We are a proud member of the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, Wedding and Event Vendor Alliance, and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. 

“Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.”

—M.F.K. Fisher, Serve It Forth, 1937