When the chef can't leave the kitchen, the kitchen store comes to him.

The chefs would come by the table, help themselves to the samples, whisper something to each other and leave.

But on the eve of my third visit, I learned that the chef had left.

She became the dessert chef three years ago when the former chef left.

By then the first chef associated with the restaurant had already left, and certain patterns had been established.

The review was already written when the call came: the chef was leaving.

But more often, chefs de cuisine quickly leave to feather their own nests.

Now when talented young chefs leave jobs, they have no guarantee of finding better positions.

She will wonder when the chef left and why the portions have shrunk.

The chef leaves the kitchen at 22:00 to reveal their identity to the dining room.