Restaurant Manager in City of London

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.
• Strong beverage knowledge; WSET Level 2 or above is desirable.
• 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:

• Balanced rota with a variety of daytime and evening shifts
• Paid development courses – WSET, Watershed and more
• Internal growth within an ambitious and award-winning restaurant group
• 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

We believe taking care of our team is not a perk — it’s our 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.