Food You Want to Eat review: Bad boy chef Thomas Straker turns over a delicious new leaf

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Food You Want to Eat review: Bad boy chef Thomas Straker turns over a delicious new leaf

Saturday 31st May 2025, 5:00AM

Thomas Straker. Oh boy. Where do you know that name from? Pop quiz: is he a) the viral Instagram chef who fiddles with butter, b) the owner of an eponymous celeb-magnet restaurant, or c) a former pariah of the restaurant world, who in 2023 upset the internet’s collective apple cart by posting a celebratory picture of his all-male, all-white chef brigade?

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