Restauranteur
Everything in Head Chef, plus a consulting chef for your restaurant or pub. Link your own venue’s website and any benchmarks, such as competitors or places that inspire you. Malcolm reviews each one’s cuisine, style, menu and positioning, then builds original sample menus with you — ready to share or export as an immaculate PDF.
£29/month
or £290/year — save 16%
What you get
🔗 Website reviews & benchmarks
Link several websites, each labelled My restaurant or Benchmark. Malcolm reads each site and its menu pages. For your restaurant, he reports on cuisine, style, price point, strengths and gaps. For benchmarks, he shows where you can differentiate and suggests original ideas. He never copies their menus.
📄 Sample menu import
Use a menu from any linked website, upload a sample menu (a text-based PDF or text file, with photo menus on a best-effort basis), or paste one in. It can be yours or a benchmark. Malcolm develops your own menus further and treats benchmark menus as inspiration only.
📚 Cookbook benchmarks
Upload recipe books by any chef for private reference. You’ll need to confirm you own the book or have the right to use it. Uploads stay private to your account: they’re never shared, never made public and never used for anyone else, and you can delete them at any time. Malcolm studies only the style, techniques, flavour pairings, structure and themes. He never reproduces recipes or text in menus, PDFs or share links, and he credits each book as inspiration.
🧭 Smart recipe search
Pick dishes from your own account history and favourites. Filter and sort by appeal, variety, taste profile, dietary needs, season and food-cost target.
🍽️ Menu Builder
Set your venue type (restaurant, pub or gastropub, bar, café, hotel and more) and description, then choose the menu type. Restaurant formats include à la carte, tasting, set, prix fixe, banquet, small plates, brunch and private dining. Pub formats include pub classics, bar snacks, Sunday roast, a specials board, set lunch, a seasonal carvery and sharing platters. Then set the cuisines and style, the number of courses and the dishes per course.
✨ Intelligent refinements
Choose the appeal (broad, adventurous, classic or family), the variety and the taste balance. Add dietary cover in every course, the season, a food-cost target, suggested prices, drink pairings (wine, ale or cider, as suggestions only) and your own personal brief.
📖 Every dish, a full recipe
Each dish on a generated menu opens its full recipe, with ingredients, method, timings, yield, UK-14 allergens, food-safety notes and Health Benefits where they apply. Recipes are saved with the menu and in your account history.
🖨️ Save, share & export
Every menu is saved to your account. Share it with your team through a private link, or download a print-ready A4 PDF in classic fine-dining, pub chalkboard or rustic kraft style, designed around your venue’s details. You can add an optional Kitchen pack of full recipe and prep sheets for every dish, with clickable recipe links. Guest pages stay clean.
Built on Head Chef
- Unlimited AI chef searches and up to 5 ranked recipes
- Favourites, history and shopping lists
- The AIchef.food Magazine, included
- Priority Malcolm AI
- Medicinal cuisine inspired by Dioscorides (historical food lore only)
- Optional: a Yes/No setting that blends your chosen linked sources into everyday recipe searches (off by default)
Restauranteur is a single-user professional plan. Household seats stay with Gastronomique, and the restaurant tools aren’t part of Gastronomique.
Who it’s for
Restaurant and pub owners, landlords, general managers, and head and executive chefs who want a fast, expert second opinion: new dish ideas, seasonal changes, launch menus, Sunday roasts and specials boards, events and private dining, and polished menus to share before service.