chef

Definition

  • noun: a professional cook who usually is in charge of a kitchen in a restaurant
  • noun: a skilled cook who manages the kitchen (as of a restaurant)

Examples

  • The hotel's 'chef' trained at the finest culinary institutes in Europe.

  • He's the 'head chef' at a five-star restaurant.

  • a 'celebrity chef' with her own TV show

Movie quotes

  • (..) Perhaps if you told him I ran the second-largest bank in Amsterdam. The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef here. We have something to look forward to. And his father is the bellboy. Good! Excuse me. I'm sorry, sir. (..)
    1942 Casablanca