Chefs for Hire London. Experienced Kitchen Professionals Who Hit the Ground Running.
Temporary Chefs Trusted by London's Leading Caterers, Hotels and Venues Since 2014.
A kitchen without the right chef is not a kitchen. It is a problem.
It does not matter how good your menu is, how well your front of house performs or how much your client is paying for the evening. If the person behind the pass is not up to the standard the occasion demands, every other element of your event suffers for it.
Cube places experienced, vetted temporary chefs across London for events, hotels, catering companies and venues that cannot afford to get this wrong. Whether you need a head chef to lead a kitchen for a single high-profile dinner, a sous chef to support your permanent team through a busy period, or a full brigade for a large-scale catering operation, we have the people.
Temporary Chefs for Every Kitchen and Every Occasion
We place chefs across every level of a professional kitchen. Every person we send has worked in a real hospitality environment and can step into a role and perform without needing to be carried through it.
Chefs de Partie
Section chefs with real experience running a specific part of a kitchen independently. Sauce, larder, pastry, grill. You tell us the section, we find someone who has worked it properly.
Commis Chefs
Motivated, trained junior chefs who can work accurately under direction, support senior chefs effectively and handle the pace and pressure of a professional kitchen without it being their first time.
Event and Outdoor Catering Chefs
Chefs with specific experience working outside a fixed kitchen environment. Pop-ups, marquees, festival catering, outdoor events and temporary kitchen setups where adaptability and experience in non-standard conditions are as important as classical training.
Private Dining Chefs
Chefs who are equally at ease cooking for twelve guests in a private home, a corporate dining room or a yacht as they are in a restaurant kitchen. Discreet, skilled and used to working directly with clients.
Every Chef We Place Has Been Properly Vetted
There is a version of chef agency that works like this. Someone lists their experience on a form. The agency adds them to a database. A client needs a chef. The agency sends whoever is free.
That is not how Cube works.
Every chef on our books has been through our vetting process. Their experience has been verified. Their references have been checked. We know their strengths, their specialisms and the environments they have actually worked in before we ever put them forward for a booking.
When we tell you a chef has worked in a Michelin-starred kitchen, they have worked in a Michelin-starred kitchen. When we tell you someone can handle a 500-cover banquet, they have handled a 500-cover banquet. No embellishments. No crossed fingers.
Who Hires Chefs Through Cube?
Catering Companies
Additional resource for a large contract, cover when a team member is off, a specialist for a specific menu requirement. We are the chef agency that London catering companies call when the stakes are too high to take a chance on the wrong person.
Hotels
Banqueting kitchens running short, a section chef unexpectedly absent before a busy weekend, additional brigade members needed for a large conference. We work with hotels across London on both a planned and emergency basis.
Private Members Clubs and Restaurants
Environments where the culinary standard is part of the identity. We place chefs who understand the expectation before they arrive and perform to it without needing to be told twice.
Event Venues
In-house kitchens staffing up for a run of events, a venue with catering coming in-house for the first time, or simply a team that needs strengthening for a particularly large or complex booking. We have covered all of these situations for venues across London.
Is always a pleasure to work with Michal and the Cube team. Quick and efficient, always trying to help and accommodating any request whenever necessary. Nothing is too much for them!
Why London's Best Kitchens Trust Cube for Their Chef Staffing
Consistency you can build on. The chefs who perform well for you come back. Mark any chef as a favourite and they will be offered your future bookings first. Over time you build a reliable pool of trusted kitchen professionals you can call on repeatedly.
Real availability, real speed. We do not promise what we cannot deliver. When you need a chef at short notice, we tell you what we have and we get them to you fast. Last year 92% of last-minute chef bookings were filled in under two hours.
Around the clock support. Our team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Kitchens do not operate between nine and five and neither do we.
One platform, full visibility. Book online, track every request in real time, approve timesheets and manage everything from one place. Or pick up the phone. We work however suits you best.