Ucluelet’s Pluvio Restaurant + Rooms is Hiring for Two Key Positions

The Goods from Pluvio Restaurant + Rooms

Ucluelet, BC | Our award winning restaurant is a small, intimate space with an open kitchen, serving exceptional quality food, outstanding wines and creative cocktails in a fun and unique manner. Our four boutique hotel rooms are located behind the restaurant, beside our rooftop kitchen garden, which allows us to provide our guests with a complete hospitality experience. We are honoured to have been selected as Canada’s ‘Best Destination Restaurant’ for 2022 and 37th Best Restaurant in 2025 by ‘Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants’, Canada’s ‘Best Fine Dining Restaurant’ for 2022 by the Trip Advisor Community, and ‘4th Best New Restaurant in Canada’ in 2019 by Air Canada’s enRoute magazine at the ‘Canada’s Best New Restaurant’ awards.

The Pluvio team is an exceptional group of passionate and driven hospitality professionals who work closely to support each other and our guests. We work hard to ensure our team stay happy and healthy, making sure that our team have a good work – life balance. Pluvio is a positive workplace with opportunities for growth and development. We offer competitive wages with extended health and dental benefits, a daily family meal, longevity rewards, restaurant + room discounts and so much more.

We are currently looking for candidates to fill the roles of Server and Cook (full descriptions below). Both positions are full time, year round. To apply, email [email protected] with your resume and a cover letter explaining what you will bring to our team and what you are looking to get out of the experience.

Server

What joining our team would look like:

We serve dinner only and have an ambitious culinary and service program. We are always looking for inspiration, ways to improve and grow our offering, and expect our whole team to participate in the continued development of the restaurant and the guest experience. Our wine program is constantly evolving and focuses on small, interesting producers from BC and around the world. Our cocktail program is driven by a passion for great drinks and local ingredients. This is a great opportunity to work with some of the best Canadian ingredients in a unique setting, learn from a passionate and driven team and make an impact on a nationally recognized restaurant.

Applicants should possess the following:

A passion for the food & beverage industry
Curiosity and excitement to learn
The desire to deliver great guest service and to create memorable experiences
A strong work ethic and teamwork mentality
Previous high level service experience
Wine knowledge to WSET/ISG Level 2 or equivalent an asset but not a requirement
The ability to work in a professional, clean, organized and efficient manner

In this role, you will be:

Bringing your own unique experiences and ideas to the Pluvio team
Working as part of a team to continue to improve the working environment and to build on an already exceptional service program
Working full time (4 evenings per week), with shifts typically 8 hours long starting at 3:30pm
Interacting with guests in a warm, genuine and professional manner
Guiding guests through the dining experience with food, wine and cocktail recommendations
Serving our five course Chef’s Tasting Menu in our small (26 seat), modern fine dining restaurant
Responsible for the opening, closing + cleaning of the restaurant, and working with the team during service to maintain the cleanliness + preparedness of the restaurant with side duties

Compensation / benefits:

$21 per hour starting wage
Tip pooling
Extended medical and dental benefits
Daily family meal
Long term, private room rental in shared house available
Annual continued education bonus
Annual wage increase
Annual team appreciation events
Annual winter closure (usually 6 weeks)
Longevity rewards
Restaurant + room discount
Family room rates
Dinner service only
A great team + positive working environment
Long term housing available, private room in a shared house in Ucluelet

Start date: June 2026

Cook

What joining our team would look like:

We are a small kitchen team, led by Chef Warren Barr. We serve a dinner only tasting menu and have an ambitious culinary program, making everything from scratch and foraging local ingredients to use on our menu. We are always looking for inspiration, ways to improve and grow our offering, and expect our whole team to participate in menu development and guest experience. This is a great opportunity to work with some of the best Canadian ingredients in a unique setting, learn from a passionate and driven Chef, and make an impact on a nationally recognized culinary program.
Our kitchen team can expect to work between 45-50 hours per week over 4 days. This makes for long days but also the opportunity to explore and enjoy the West Coast, whether that means fishing, foraging, surfing or camping.

Applicants should possess the following:

A passion for food
Curiosity and excitement to learn
Previous high level, fast paced, from scratch cooking experience
Desire to create memorable experiences and to inspire our team to do the same
The ability to work in a clean, organized and efficient manner and hold others accountable to those same high standards
The ability to take and give direction, follow and develop recipes, give instructions and adapt as needed

In this role, you will be:

Bringing your own unique experiences and ideas to the Pluvio team
Working directly with Chef Warren Barr + the kitchen team with the best local ingredients, to prepare food to a very high quality
Collaborating with Chef and the team to continue to improve the working environment and to build on an already exceptional culinary program
Working 4 days, 45-50 hours, per week, in our small 24 seat modern fine dining restaurant in the role of sous-chef
Responsible for the opening, closing + cleaning of the kitchen, and working with the team during service to maintain the cleanliness, safety + organization of the kitchen
Responsible for upholding the high standards of food service and delivering an exceptional dining experience to our guests

Compensation / benefits:

Competitive wages: $53,000 per year starting salary, (based on 10.5 month working year with 1.5 month annual winter break)
Extended medical and dental benefits
Tip pooling
Daily family meal
Long term, private room rental in shared house available
Annual continued education bonus
Annual wage increase and longevity rewards
Annual team appreciation events
Restaurant + room discount
Family room rates
Dinner service only
A great team + positive working environment

Start date: May/June 2026