Senior Restaurant Manager | The Barbary Notting Hill

Bringing the spirit of The Barbary to West London, The Barbary Notting Hill celebrates the elemental flavours and open-fire cooking of the Barbary Coast — from Southern Europe to Northern Africa — centred around our iconic horseshoe kitchen counter and vibrant dining room.

We are looking for a truly exceptional Senior Restaurant Manager — a seasoned hospitality professional, a real restaurateur.

This is a role for someone who lives and breathes service. Someone who commands the floor, understands the rhythm of the room instinctively, and thrives in the theatre of a busy dining room.

The Role

As Senior Restaurant Manager, you will be a key part of the leadership team, working closely with the other Front-of-House managers and senior kitchen team to ensure excellence across every service.

You will:

•  Lead from the floor — visible, present, composed and in control.
• Run the room with energy and precision, understanding pace, flow and guest experience in real time.
• Coach and develop the FOH team, both in and out of service.
• Drive standards of hospitality that feel generous, warm and instinctive — never scripted.
• Take ownership of service execution, guest recovery and operational detail.
• Support the GM on financial performance, rota strategy, team development and compliance.
• Bring personality, humour and humanity to the leadership of the restaurant.

This is a role for someone who understands that great restaurants are built in the details — the tone of a greeting, the way a section moves, the energy of a briefing, the calm control at peak pressure.

You’ll be:

• A highly experienced hospitality professional, ideally with several years running high-calibre dining rooms.
• A confident floor leader who commands respect without ego.
• Someone who thrives in high-energy, high-volume, high-standard environments.
• Deeply passionate about service — you notice everything.
• Commercially aware, with a strong understanding of profitability, labour control and targets.
• Experienced in coaching and developing teams.
• Have a strong background and interest in wine. We are very proud to have a qualified WSET wine educator as our Head of Wine and we are looking for someone to help deliver this to the rest of the team.
• Organised, strategic and proactive — but first and foremost, a natural host.

You should be equally comfortable inspiring a pre-service briefing, handling a VIP table, troubleshooting a service bottleneck, or mentoring your junior team.

Our Benefits:

• Excellent opportunities for progression and development. Many of our teams move around the Studio Paskin group as they grow through their career with us.
• Balanced rota with a variety of daytime and evening shifts
• Paid development courses – WSET, Watershed and more
• Up to £2,000 Employee Referral Scheme
• Generous staff discount of up to 50% across all Studio Paskin venues
• Cost price wine and supplier discounts
• Enhanced parental leave package
• Emergency Cash via PayCaptain
• Partnership with Kelly’s Cause and automatic enrolment onto Hospitality Action’s Employee Assistance Programme
• Free staff meals and proper breaks

As one of CODE’s Top 25 Hospitality Happiest Places to Work in the UK 2025, we see looking after our team not as a perk, but as a responsibility.

About Us:

The Barbary Notting Hill is part of Studio Paskin, alongside The Palomar, The Barbary Neal’s Yard, The Blue Posts, Evelyn’s Table and The Mulwray.

Our success is underpinned by an open-minded, compassionate and enthusiastic belief in the power of heartfelt hospitality. We create places where we want to go — places of elegance, professionalism, generosity and warmth.

If you are an experienced operator who feels most alive in the middle of service, who loves the craft of restaurants and wants to help shape the next chapter of The Barbary Notting Hill, we would love to hear from you.