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Create an accountEstela is a restaurant in downtown Manhattan from chef Ignacio Mattos. Set one floor above Houston Street, it is a bistro at heart, taking familiar ideas like tartare, ricotta dumplings, burrata on toast, fried rice, and steak, and presenting them in new, satisfying ways. The bar is open late, and you can come in for just a glass and a small bite, should you feel like it. Now in its 8th year, Estela has earned numerous accolades, including a place on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List, a Michelin star and two stars from both New York Magazine and the New York Times.
The Bar Assistant is responsible for receiving, organizing, storing, and restocking beer, soda, and liquor in accordance with the restaurants’ bar program. This position will be responsible for bar set up and preparation for daily service. The Bar Assistant will also be responsible for maintaining the bar and stocking essential bar items as well as assisting service staff for daily service.
Key Focus
- Receiving, organizing, storing, and restocking in accordance with the bar program
- Bar setup and preparation for daily service
- Bar maintenance during service
- Assist Bar Director and General Manager with bar related tasks
Personnel:
- Ensure compliance with occupational, health, and safety standards.
- Participate actively in bar trainings and meetings to develop bar knowledge as well as understand the bar program.
- Communicate beverage needs efficiently to Bar Director and Management.
- Demonstrate ability to aid service team and management while successfully maintaining responsibilities.
Bar Preparation
- Support the Bar Director in receiving, organizing, storing, and restocking beverage items in accordance with the restaurant’s bar program.
- Assist with counting of product and organization for monthly inventory.
- Prepare fresh garnish for daily service.
- Fill batch, cheaters, and dasher bottles.
- Make batches, syrups, cordials, tinctures, etc.
- Juicing lemon and lime in addition to any seasonal juices.
- Ensure beverage section in walk-in, liquor shelves, and LDR cabinets are organized.
- Assist in bar setup for daily service.
- Ensures consistent execution of company policies and procedures including recently created and evolving COVID guidelines.
Bar Service & Maintenance
- Refill ice, bottles, syrups, batches.
- Wash, polish, and restock glassware.
- Receive trays of glassware and ensure glass fridge is stocked.
- Assist in maintaining the bar by bussing dirty dishware and glassware as well as wiping down the bar.
- Ensure backbar is neat, clean, and organized during service.
- Maintain garnishes.
- Assist in making coffees and bread set up for service.
- Restock setups such as silverware, plates, napkins.
- Bring filled bus tubs to dish pit and replace with empty bus tubs.
- Assist servers with bottle by the glass wine as needed.
- Assist with sidework as needed.
- Maintain the high standards of cleanliness and appearance throughout all areas of the restaurant.
- Follow all company policies and procedures including recently created and evolving COVID guidelines.
- Follow all Department of Health (DOH) standards.
