About the Artyst
We're a café, bar, and events venue on Chesterton Road. Opened September 2025. We are the only dedicated Syd Barrett heritage venue in the world, operating with Barrett estate approval and exhibiting Mick Rock photography. We're a seated, table-service, cultural venue — not a pub, not a nightclub. Our evenings run on wine tastings, talks, small concerts, and the gatherings of the Invysible College.
The basement — fully insulated, acoustically designed, waiting for its final fit-out — opens in 2026 as a multi-purpose arts and community hub and the home of the CURE Club. This role leads the bar side of that opening.
What you'll do
- Run our existing ground-floor bar — day-to-day service, quality, the customer experience, the culture of the bar.
- Lead the opening of the basement bar — feed into its final design and fit-out, spec the kit, build the drinks offer from scratch.
- Own bar operations — stock, ordering, supplier relationships, margins, compliance, training.
- Build and lead a small bar team across two floors.
- Collaborate with our events programme — wine tastings, launches, Invysible College nights, ticketed events.
- Represent the Artyst's tone and values. This venue has a particular cultural identity, and the bar is the front line of it.
Who we're looking for
- Experienced bar operator. You've managed a bar in a venue that took quality seriously.
- Good with wine specifically. We run wine tastings as a core evening activity — this is not background knowledge for you.
- Culturally engaged. You belong in a venue that programmes talks and music as much as it serves drinks. The Syd Barrett connection means something to you, or quickly will.
- Builder's mindset. You enjoy the idea of spec'ing a bar from an empty basement more than inheriting a working one.
- Personal Licence holder — or ready to become one.
What you get
- A full-time, permanent role in a venue that has both cultural weight and a clear commercial plan.
- Genuine creative authority over the bar programme — we're looking for a collaborator, not an operator-in-a-box.
- First-in on the basement — your name is in the story of how this space opened.
- Salary commensurate with experience. Details in conversation.
How to apply
Send your CV and a short note — a paragraph or two — telling us why this role, and what you'd want the bar at the Artyst to be. We read these properly, and the note matters more than the CV.
Applications are considered as they arrive. We aim to meet shortlisted candidates promptly.
