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Unique opportunity to join a small, award winning team and realise your dreams of living in paradise! Pluvio restaurant + rooms in Ucluelet, BC (Tofino’s slightly less hipster neighbour) is hiring.

Our restaurant is a small, intimate space with an open kitchen, serving exceptional quality food, outstanding wines and creative cocktails in a fun and unique manner. Our four boutique hotel rooms are located behind the restaurant beside our rooftop kitchen garden, which allows us to provide our guests with a complete hospitality experience. Opened in April 2019, our contemporary West Coast fine dining restaurant was awarded 4^th Best New Restaurant in Canada by Air Canada’s enRoute Magazine (see full details here).

We realize terms like ‘small’ and ‘intimate’ are scary during these covid-19 times but we want to assure you that we are taking all the necessary precautions to best ensure the safety of our team, our guests and our community. Since reopening our restaurant at the end of May, we modified our dining format to offer a three or five course menu to a limited number of guests, ensuring physical distancing is in place between tables and putting our open kitchen and bar behind plexiglass. Our whole team was involved in developing our safe work plan, which is available on our website, and we are happy to discuss the steps we are taking with any applicants.

Now more than ever we aim to charm and delight our guests, and each other, through kindness, generosity, creativity and fun. We work with an exceptional group of passionate and driven hospitality professionals who work closely (metaphorically speaking at this time) as a team to support each other and our guests.

We are looking to grow our team by adding an experienced, passionate cook. Previous fast paced, from scratch cooking experience preferred. Motivation, drive and curiosity essential. 

What joining our team would look like:

Cooks can expect to work between 45-50 hours per week over 4 days.  This makes for long days but gives our kitchen team the opportunity to explore and enjoy the West Coast, whether that means fishing, foraging, surfing or camping. With the current covid-19 health requirements, cooks should expect to periodically work 5 days a week to cover sick leaves and will be compensated for this accordingly.

We are a small kitchen team, cooks work directly with Chef Warren Barr making everything from scratch and foraging local ingredients to use on our menu. We serve dinner only and have an ambitious culinary program. We are always looking for inspiration, ways to improve and grow our offering, and expect our whole team to participate in menu development and guest experience. This is a great opportunity to work with some of the best Canadian ingredients in a unique setting, learn from a passionate and driven Chef and make an impact on a nationally recognised culinary program.

Competitive salary, extended medical and dental coverage after 3 months, annual 3-6 week closure every winter, tip pooling, daily family meal, restaurant + room discount, family room rates, dinner service only, 3 days off per week, a great team + positive working environment.