Specialist recruitment for chefs, front-of-house & management

cairnity

Exceptional chefs, and the front-of-house and managers who run great rooms, for private households, luxury hotels, fine dining, estates and yachts. Placed by someone who has run the pass.

20 years in professional kitchens Founder-led from Royal Deeside Three AA Rosettes earned at the pass

What we do

One standard. No compromise.

cairnity places permanent talent at the top of the market: for private and household kitchens, luxury hotels, fine-dining and Rosette restaurants, country estates and sporting lodges, and yachts.

Chefs

From senior chef de partie through sous, head and executive level, the lead of everything we do, and every candidate assessed by someone who has done the job.

How we work →

Front-of-house & management

General managers, restaurant managers, maître d’, sommeliers, house and estate managers and F&B directors, the people who run great rooms.

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Why cairnity

Built on twenty years in professional kitchens.

cairnity is founder-led from Royal Deeside. Every brief is taken by someone who has run the pass, planned the rota, and knows what a great kitchen, and the room it serves, actually needs, because the difference between a CV that reads well and someone who stays is something you learn in service, not from a database. Every search is handled with discretion.

About cairnity

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