Farm Experience Chef

About the role

Guka & Cũcũ's Farm is a family coffee farm in Kabati, Murang'a, about an hour from Nairobi, established in 1981. It offers farm lunches, brunches and private events where guests pick and roast coffee, meet the goats and chickens and eat in the kitchen garden. The resident chef owns the whole dining experience: menu, plate, pace of service and atmosphere. The post is full-time, farm-based and six days a week, reporting to the Managing Director, with a budget of KES 40,000.

Key responsibilities

• Design and run seasonal menus for farm lunches, brunches and private celebrations based on what is in the garden each week.
• Develop dishes using goat-milk feta and mozzarella and the farm's coffee, in food and drinks.
• Introduce the menu, explain where each ingredient comes from and read the table.
• Keep standards on temperature, plating and food safety, cost every dish and control waste.
• Train and lead the kitchen team and work with the farm restaurant and operations manager on timing and covers.
• Bring fresh ideas such as tasting menus, themed dinners and sundowner food.

Required profile

• Culinary training plus real kitchen experience; the employer cares more about what you can create than how many years you have.
• A genuine passion for cooking and a belief that you could run your own restaurant.
• Natural host who is warm with guests, disciplined with a plan and a budget, and calm when service is busy.
• Willing to live and work at the farm in Kabati, six days a week including weekends and event days.

To apply, send your CV and a cover letter with a sample farm-to-table menu (tasting menu, lunch, brunch or other) by 10 November 2026. The menu must use the listed ingredients, include at least one dish with goat-milk feta or mozzarella and one coffee element, and state a rough cost per guest and the total menu price. Applications without a sample menu will not be considered.