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Tom Aikens

January 01, 1970

For the Queensland politician, see Tom Aikens (politician).

Tom Aikens (born 1970), also named Tom Aitkens,[1] is an English Michelin-starred chef. Aikens briefly worked for chefs in London and Paris restaurants. Under his tenure from 1996 to 1999 as head chef and then chef patron, Pied à Terre earned its two Michelin stars in January 1997.

Tom Aikens
Aikens in 2012
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Norwich, England
EducationHotel School at City College Norwich
Culinary career
Cooking styleBritish cuisine
Rating(s)
Current restaurant(s)
  • Muse by Tom Aikens
Previous restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
  • Trouble at the Top
    Saturday Kitchen
    Iron Chef UK
    Great British Menu
Websitewww.tomaikens.co.uk

Aikens's current restaurants include Michelin-starred London restaurant Muse, opened in January 2020, and three hotel eateries in Abu Dhabi. He appeared on television, including Great British Menu as one of its contestants and then one of its veteran chef judges.

Early life and education edit

Tom Aikens was born in Norwich in 1970 to his family who have been wine merchants.[2][3] His twin brother Robert was born earlier. Tom weighed just over three pounds at birth and was treated in an incubator for two months.[4]

Tom and Robert started attending Hotel School at City College Norwich at age 16.[3] Tom earned a two-year Advanced Catering Diploma in 1989.[5] Robert eventually became a chef also.[2]

Early cooking career and Pied à Terre edit

Aikens started working at three-Michelin-starred La Tante Claire under Pierre Koffman.[3] Then he worked at Pied à Terre, a London restaurant located at Charlotte Street, as a sous-chef in 1993.[2][6] Some time later, he worked for Joël Robuchon in Paris.[7]

Aikens returned to Pied à Terre in 1996 and was appointed head chef in May of the same year.[2][6][8] Then, under him as its chef patron and co-owner, Pied à Terre earned two Michelin stars in January 1997, branding Aikens the youngest to earn them since Harveys under Marco Pierre White (age 27) in 1990.[2][7]

On 10 December 1999, a 19-year-old chef Marcus Donaldson was burned with a hot knife, and Aikens was accused of causing the incident. Within a week, Pied à Terre's board of directors advised Aikens to take a break from work during the Christmas period. However, Aikens decided to leave Pied a Terre and establish his own restaurant, which was decided some time prior and unrelated to the incident. Its sous-chef Shane Osborne replaced Aikens.[9][10] Aikens's then-wife Laura Vanninen[3] resigned as its assistant manager.[10]

After his departure from Pied à Terre, Aikens worked for Pierre Koffman again at La Tante Claire of The Berkeley hotel for nine months and then as a private chef for rich clients like Anthony Bamford in Gloucestershire and Andrew Lloyd Webber.[5][11]

First eponymous restaurant edit

Main article: Tom Aikens (restaurant)

In April 2003, Aikens opened his eponymous restaurant Tom Aikens (also called Tom Aikens Restaurant and Restaurant Tom Aikens) at 43 Elystan Street, Chelsea, a former site of a pub, the Marlborough Arms, with his then-wife and co-owner Laura Vanninen.[3][5][11] In January 2004, Aikens's eponymous restaurant received four rosettes from AA plc and then its first Michelin star.[12][13]

The restaurant earned its second Michelin star in January 2008.[14] Then it was closed from July 2011 to 11 January 2012 for refurbishment, causing it to lose its Michelin stars. It was reopened the following day.[15] In late 2012, the restaurant regained its first Michelin star.[16] It permanently closed in late January 2014.[17] Due to closure, it lost its Michelin star in September 2014.[18]

Tom's Kitchen edit

On 2 November 2006, Aikens opened a newer restaurant Tom's Kitchen, which occupied a former site of a defunct pub The Blenheim, located at Cale Street near Aikens's other eponymous restaurant.[19][20][21][22] In contrast to Aikens's first eponymous restaurant, Tom's Kitchen was not a fine dining restaurant but rather a gastropub.[23] Ollie Couillaud, the previous head chef of Chiswick restaurant La Trompette, co-owned by Nigel Platts-Martin and Bruce Poole, held the role of head chef from the opening to May 2007.[22][24]

Aikens and his eponymous restaurant group, Tom Aikens Group, opened another iteration at Westferry Circus of Canary Wharf on 29 June 2013[25] and then the Mailbox Birmingham iteration in December 2016.[26]

Aikens closed the Birmingham and Canary Wharf iterations on 30 May 2019.[27] He closed the Chelsea location on 2 January 2020, citing "extremely challenging market conditions [and] staff and skills shortages".[28] To this date, there have been no iterations remaining.

Other restaurant groups edit

In October 2008, Aikens's companies T&L Ltd and Tom Aikens Ltd, both of which suffered from £3 million debt, fell into property administration.[29][30] He sold his two remaining eponymous restaurants to TA Holdco Ltd, owned by Peter Dubens and David Till, leaving his suppliers (many of them small businesses) with unpaid bills.[30]

In March 2011, the Istanbul Doors Restaurant Group bought out Peter Dubens and acquired 80-percent shares of Aikens's restaurants, leaving Aikens with the remaining 20 percent.[29]

Other eateries edit

Aikens operated a fish-and-chip restaurant Tom's Place, which only lasted from 6 February to August 2008 due to financial issues, like debt, and negative feedback primarily toward high price.[30][31] Its head chef was Yves Girard.[31]

Aikens opened a 25-seater fine dining restaurant Muse, located at Belgravia, on 11 January 2020,[32] six years after backing away from the fine dining scene. One year later, in January 2021, Muse earned its first Michelin star.[33]

As of January 2020, Aikens runs three eateries at The Abu Dhabi Edition hotel.[28]

Television edit

Aikens appeared on the long-running cooking show "Great Chefs of the World" in the fourth episode of the fifth season, filmed at his Pied à Terre restaurant. He presented a starter course of roasted scallops with celeriac puree and glazed pork belly. It aired on September 28, 1998.

Aikens and his first eponymous restaurant appeared in the 25 March 2004 episode of a BBC series Trouble at the Top.[34] He also appeared in Saturday Kitchen (first on 18 November 2006)[35] and then Iron Chef UK in late April 2010, competing against Judy Joo, Sanjay Dwivedi, and Martin Blunos.[36][37]

In the sixth series (2011) of Great British Menu, Aikens lost to Tom Kerridge in the judging round of the London and South East heat.[38][39] In its eighth series (2013), alongside four other winning chefs (Aiden Byrne, Michael Smith, Daniel Clifford, and Richard Davies), Aikens served his winning dish (Chicken egg, egg chicken) as the starter course of the 2013 Comic Relief banquet at the Royal Albert Hall.[40] He later has reappeared in the series as a veteran chef judge for regional heats. He also competed in the seven-episode 2020 Christmas special of the series.[41]

Accolades edit

Aikens won the Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 Catey Awards for his newly established eponymous restaurant.[42][43] He also won the New 5 Rosette Award at the 2007–2008 AA Hospitality Awards in September 2007.[44]

Among top 100 most influential figures of the UK hospitality industry, The Caterer ranked Aikens 71st in 2005,[45] 97th in 2006,[46] 94th in 2010, and 89th in 2011.[47]

Aikens has been awarded up to two Michelin stars for his restaurants. He currently holds one for his restaurant Muse, located in Belgravia.

Personal life edit

Aikens's marriage to his then-business partner Laura Vanninen lasted from 1997 to 2004, one year after they established his first eponymous restaurant.[3] His second marriage to Amber Nuttall, daughter of the late engineer Nicholas Nuttall, lasted from June 2007 to November 2010.[3][48]

Aikens married his partner of nine years Justine Dobbs-Higginson, a former Goldman Sachs banker, in Corsica in summer 2018. They have two daughters.[49]

Bibliography edit

  • Cooking, 2006 (eBook: ISBN 9781448177196)
  • Fish, 2008 (ISBN 9780091924928; eBook: ISBN 9781448146925)
  • Easy, 2011 (ISBN 978-0091924935)
  • 5 Minute Feast, an Only a Pavement Away charity cookbook, 28 July 2021[50]

References edit

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  3. ^ a b c d e f g Conti, Samantha (1 October 2007). "Cooking with Gas". W. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ Devine, Cate (11 November 2006). "Who the Hell Is Gordon Ramsay?". The Herald. Glasgow. ProQuest 332997747.
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  6. ^ a b "Tom Aikens". BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Chef's Walkout, with Staff, Sets London Abroil". The New York Times. 30 July 1998.
  8. ^ Finn, Gary (16 December 1999). "'Branding' of a junior lands chef in the soup". The Independent. ISSN 0951-9467. ProQuest 311629847. Republished online on 23 October 2011.
  9. ^ Gillan, Audrey (15 December 1999). "Branding row chef quits top restaurant". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b Lee, Adrian; Wilkinson, Paul (16 December 1999). "Top chef quits after 'branding' kitchen worker". The Times (5L ed.). ISSN 0140-0460. ProQuest 318207883.
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Further reading edit

  • Hancock, Tiffany (18 March 2006). "Keep on running". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. ProQuest 321341420. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  • Coren, Giles. "Restaurant review: Giles Coren at Oslo Court and Tom Aikens". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. ProQuest 319864880. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  • Kühn, Kerstin (22 April 2010). "Tom Aikens and Compass to launch two restaurants at Somerset House". The Caterer. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  • Stretton, Mark (23 September 2010). "Tom Aikens abandons Paramount restaurant purchase". Big Hospitality. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  • Hanly, Catherine (17 February 2011). "Tom Aikens talks about this year's Great British Menu". Hot Dinners. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  • "Restaurants: Tom Aikens Launches Events Service at Somerset House". Caterer and Hotelkeeper. Vol. 201, no. 4662. 28 January 2011. p. 8. ISSN 0008-7777. ProQuest 856109194.
  • Rowbotham, Gemma (21 April 2011). "Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens to reopen Tom Terrace". The Caterer. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  • Sturgess, Emma (26 May 2011). "Pop-up restaurants: here today, gone tomorrow". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  • Hirschmiller, Stephanie (25 June 2013). . The Handbook. Archived from the original on 6 September 2013.
  • Aikens, Tom (18 August 2013). "Routine Is Key to Creating Quality Cuisine". The New York Times (Interview). Interviewed by Julia Werdigier. ProQuest 2214777985. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  • Hipwell, Deirdre (23 May 2014). "Tired of dry land? Live on the water". The Times. p. 6. ISSN 0140-0460. ProQuest 1527302820. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  • Alano, Katherine (8 October 2014). "Chef Tom Aikens to open Hong Kong restaurant". The Caterer. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  • Divecha, Devina (27 July 2015). "Tom Aikens outlet opening set for September 2015". Hotelier Middle East. ISSN 1997-7786. ProQuest 1778806327. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  • Simpson, Leah (18 January 2016). "Celebrity chef Tom Aikens to open second Dubai outlet". Arabian Business. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

External links edit

 
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January 01, 1970
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For the Queensland politician see Tom Aikens politician Tom Aikens born 1970 also named Tom Aitkens 1 is an English Michelin starred chef Aikens briefly worked for chefs in London and Paris restaurants Under his tenure from 1996 to 1999 as head chef and then chef patron Pied a Terre earned its two Michelin stars in January 1997 Tom AikensAikens in 2012Born1970 age 53 54 Norwich EnglandEducationHotel School at City College NorwichCulinary careerCooking styleBritish cuisineRating s Michelin stars 2004 2008 2012 2014 2021 present 2008 2011 Current restaurant s Muse by Tom AikensPrevious restaurant s Tom Aikens Tom s KitchenTelevision show s Trouble at the Top Saturday Kitchen Iron Chef UK Great British MenuWebsitewww wbr tomaikens wbr co wbr uk Aikens s current restaurants include Michelin starred London restaurant Muse opened in January 2020 and three hotel eateries in Abu Dhabi He appeared on television including Great British Menu as one of its contestants and then one of its veteran chef judges Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early cooking career and Pied a Terre 3 First eponymous restaurant 4 Tom s Kitchen 5 Other restaurant groups 6 Other eateries 7 Television 8 Accolades 9 Personal life 10 Bibliography 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksEarly life and education editTom Aikens was born in Norwich in 1970 to his family who have been wine merchants 2 3 His twin brother Robert was born earlier Tom weighed just over three pounds at birth and was treated in an incubator for two months 4 Tom and Robert started attending Hotel School at City College Norwich at age 16 3 Tom earned a two year Advanced Catering Diploma in 1989 5 Robert eventually became a chef also 2 Early cooking career and Pied a Terre editAikens started working at three Michelin starred La Tante Claire under Pierre Koffman 3 Then he worked at Pied a Terre a London restaurant located at Charlotte Street as a sous chef in 1993 2 6 Some time later he worked for Joel Robuchon in Paris 7 Aikens returned to Pied a Terre in 1996 and was appointed head chef in May of the same year 2 6 8 Then under him as its chef patron and co owner Pied a Terre earned two Michelin stars in January 1997 branding Aikens the youngest to earn them since Harveys under Marco Pierre White age 27 in 1990 2 7 On 10 December 1999 a 19 year old chef Marcus Donaldson was burned with a hot knife and Aikens was accused of causing the incident Within a week Pied a Terre s board of directors advised Aikens to take a break from work during the Christmas period However Aikens decided to leave Pied a Terre and establish his own restaurant which was decided some time prior and unrelated to the incident Its sous chef Shane Osborne replaced Aikens 9 10 Aikens s then wife Laura Vanninen 3 resigned as its assistant manager 10 After his departure from Pied a Terre Aikens worked for Pierre Koffman again at La Tante Claire of The Berkeley hotel for nine months and then as a private chef for rich clients like Anthony Bamford in Gloucestershire and Andrew Lloyd Webber 5 11 First eponymous restaurant editMain article Tom Aikens restaurant In April 2003 Aikens opened his eponymous restaurant Tom Aikens also called Tom Aikens Restaurant and Restaurant Tom Aikens at 43 Elystan Street Chelsea a former site of a pub the Marlborough Arms with his then wife and co owner Laura Vanninen 3 5 11 In January 2004 Aikens s eponymous restaurant received four rosettes from AA plc and then its first Michelin star 12 13 The restaurant earned its second Michelin star in January 2008 14 Then it was closed from July 2011 to 11 January 2012 for refurbishment causing it to lose its Michelin stars It was reopened the following day 15 In late 2012 the restaurant regained its first Michelin star 16 It permanently closed in late January 2014 17 Due to closure it lost its Michelin star in September 2014 18 Tom s Kitchen editOn 2 November 2006 Aikens opened a newer restaurant Tom s Kitchen which occupied a former site of a defunct pub The Blenheim located at Cale Street near Aikens s other eponymous restaurant 19 20 21 22 In contrast to Aikens s first eponymous restaurant Tom s Kitchen was not a fine dining restaurant but rather a gastropub 23 Ollie Couillaud the previous head chef of Chiswick restaurant La Trompette co owned by Nigel Platts Martin and Bruce Poole held the role of head chef from the opening to May 2007 22 24 Aikens and his eponymous restaurant group Tom Aikens Group opened another iteration at Westferry Circus of Canary Wharf on 29 June 2013 25 and then the Mailbox Birmingham iteration in December 2016 26 Aikens closed the Birmingham and Canary Wharf iterations on 30 May 2019 27 He closed the Chelsea location on 2 January 2020 citing extremely challenging market conditions and staff and skills shortages 28 To this date there have been no iterations remaining Other restaurant groups editIn October 2008 Aikens s companies T amp L Ltd and Tom Aikens Ltd both of which suffered from 3 million debt fell into property administration 29 30 He sold his two remaining eponymous restaurants to TA Holdco Ltd owned by Peter Dubens and David Till leaving his suppliers many of them small businesses with unpaid bills 30 In March 2011 the Istanbul Doors Restaurant Group bought out Peter Dubens and acquired 80 percent shares of Aikens s restaurants leaving Aikens with the remaining 20 percent 29 Other eateries editAikens operated a fish and chip restaurant Tom s Place which only lasted from 6 February to August 2008 due to financial issues like debt and negative feedback primarily toward high price 30 31 Its head chef was Yves Girard 31 Aikens opened a 25 seater fine dining restaurant Muse located at Belgravia on 11 January 2020 32 six years after backing away from the fine dining scene One year later in January 2021 Muse earned its first Michelin star 33 As of January 2020 Aikens runs three eateries at The Abu Dhabi Edition hotel 28 Television editAikens appeared on the long running cooking show Great Chefs of the World in the fourth episode of the fifth season filmed at his Pied a Terre restaurant He presented a starter course of roasted scallops with celeriac puree and glazed pork belly It aired on September 28 1998 Aikens and his first eponymous restaurant appeared in the 25 March 2004 episode of a BBC series Trouble at the Top 34 He also appeared in Saturday Kitchen first on 18 November 2006 35 and then Iron Chef UK in late April 2010 competing against Judy Joo Sanjay Dwivedi and Martin Blunos 36 37 In the sixth series 2011 of Great British Menu Aikens lost to Tom Kerridge in the judging round of the London and South East heat 38 39 In its eighth series 2013 alongside four other winning chefs Aiden Byrne Michael Smith Daniel Clifford and Richard Davies Aikens served his winning dish Chicken egg egg chicken as the starter course of the 2013 Comic Relief banquet at the Royal Albert Hall 40 He later has reappeared in the series as a veteran chef judge for regional heats He also competed in the seven episode 2020 Christmas special of the series 41 Accolades editAikens won the Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 Catey Awards for his newly established eponymous restaurant 42 43 He also won the New 5 Rosette Award at the 2007 2008 AA Hospitality Awards in September 2007 44 Among top 100 most influential figures of the UK hospitality industry The Caterer ranked Aikens 71st in 2005 45 97th in 2006 46 94th in 2010 and 89th in 2011 47 Aikens has been awarded up to two Michelin stars for his restaurants He currently holds one for his restaurant Muse located in Belgravia Personal life editAikens s marriage to his then business partner Laura Vanninen lasted from 1997 to 2004 one year after they established his first eponymous restaurant 3 His second marriage to Amber Nuttall daughter of the late engineer Nicholas Nuttall lasted from June 2007 to November 2010 3 48 Aikens married his partner of nine years Justine Dobbs Higginson a former Goldman Sachs banker in Corsica in summer 2018 They have two daughters 49 Bibliography editCooking 2006 eBook ISBN 9781448177196 Fish 2008 ISBN 9780091924928 eBook ISBN 9781448146925 Easy 2011 ISBN 978 0091924935 5 Minute Feast an Only a Pavement Away charity cookbook 28 July 2021 50 References edit A brief history of haute cuisine The Observer The Guardian 9 March 2003 Retrieved 8 March 2021 a b c d e Boseley Sarah 23 January 1997 Young chef s labour of love breaks British two star record Michelin man s taste of success The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 ProQuest 245086606 Accession no 04424186 a b c d e f g Conti Samantha 1 October 2007 Cooking with Gas W Retrieved 21 February 2021 Devine Cate 11 November 2006 Who the Hell Is Gordon Ramsay The Herald Glasgow ProQuest 332997747 a b c Aikens Tom 2006 Introduction Cooking London Ebury Publishing ISBN 9781448177196 a b Tom Aikens BBC Retrieved 21 February 2021 a b Chef s Walkout with Staff Sets London Abroil The New York Times 30 July 1998 Finn Gary 16 December 1999 Branding of a junior lands chef in the soup The Independent ISSN 0951 9467 ProQuest 311629847 Republished online on 23 October 2011 Gillan Audrey 15 December 1999 Branding row chef quits top restaurant The Guardian Retrieved 21 February 2021 a b Lee Adrian Wilkinson Paul 16 December 1999 Top chef quits after branding kitchen worker The Times 5L ed ISSN 0140 0460 ProQuest 318207883 a b Moir Jan 3 May 2003 This week Tom Aikens The Daily Telegraph p 18 ISSN 0307 1235 ProQuest 316851328 Wood Joanna 9 January 2004 AA awards rosettes ahead of next guide The Caterer Retrieved 22 February 2021 Afiya Amanda 22 28 January 2004 Blumenthal s Fat Duck awarded its third star Caterer amp Hotelkeeper Vol 193 no 4307 p 10 ISSN 0008 7777 ProQuest 222830731 Kuhn Kerstin 31 January 2008 2008 the year the Michelin stars stood still The Caterer ProQuest 222766921 Retrieved 23 February 2021 Kuhn Kerstin 12 January 2012 Tom Aikens reopens flagship restaurant today The Caterer Retrieved 6 March 2021 Kuhn Kerstin 3 October 2012 Leaked results reveal record number of Michelin stars The Caterer Retrieved 6 March 2021 Gerrard Neil 2 January 2014 Tom Aikens Restaurant to close The Caterer Retrieved 9 March 2021 Manzoori Stamford Janie 25 September 2014 Nobu and Nobu Berkeley Street both lose long held Michelin stars The Caterer Retrieved 15 March 2021 Print edition ProQuest 1616165634 ISSN 2055 7817 2055 7825 Gunn Jessica 10 February 2006 Tom Aikens diversifies with new opening The Caterer Retrieved 22 February 2021 Russell Jacob Hale 2 September 2006 PURSUITS Fall Restaurant Preview Chefs Check In The Wall Street Journal Eastern ed p 1 ISSN 0099 9660 ProQuest 398992449 Just Opened Caterer amp Hotelkeeper Vol 196 no 4451 16 22 November 2006 p 16 ISSN 0008 7777 ProQuest 222772553 a b Wood Joanna 1 7 February 2007 Menuwatch Tom s Kitchen Caterer amp Hotelkeeper Vol 197 no 4461 p 32 ISSN 0008 7777 ProQuest 222772553 Manson Emily 10 August 2006 Aiden Byrne to head the Grill at the Dorchester The Caterer Retrieved 22 February 2021 Ollie Couillard set to open own restaurant The Caterer 16 May 2007 Retrieved 28 February 2021 New London restaurant and bar openings June 2013 Telegraph co uk 11 June 2013 ProQuest 1366434779 Pathiaki Katie 14 July 2016 Tom Aikens announces two new restaurants The Caterer Retrieved 18 March 2021 Wood Vincent 3 June 2019 Tom Aikens closes kitchen offshoots in Birmingham and Canary Wharf The Caterer Retrieved 19 March 2021 a b Price Katherine 22 January 2020 Tom Aikens closes Tom s Kitchen The Caterer Retrieved 19 March 2021 a b Walsh Dominic 25 March 2011 Turks open door for chef s expansion Tom Aikens gets new backer for his brasseries The Times p 50 ISSN 0140 0460 ProQuest 858426052 a b c Tweedie Neil 25 October 2008 Tom Aikens leaves a sour taste in the mouth The Daily Telegraph p 31 ISSN 0307 1235 ProQuest 321677260 Retrieved 23 February 2021 a b Kuhn Kerstin 5 February 2008 New Tom Aikens restaurant opens on Wednesday The Caterer Retrieved 23 February 2021 Armstrong Hilary 29 December 2019 Where to eat in 2020 the new openings and old revivals not to miss The Daily Telegraph ProQuest 2331173327 Retrieved 18 March 2021 England Scotland and Ireland s New One Michelin Star Restaurants Michelin Guide 25 January 2021 Retrieved 19 March 2021 Business on the box Sunday Times 21 March 2004 p 15 ISSN 0956 1382 ProQuest 316806847 Saturday Kitchen 18 11 2006 BBC 18 November 2006 Retrieved 26 February 2021 Chater David Alex Hardy Mike Mulvihill 24 April 2010 David Chater s choices The Times p 36 ISSN 0140 0460 ProQuest 320486823 Jeffries Stuart 9 September 2010 Tom Aikens a chef back from the brink The Guardian Retrieved 25 February 2021 Great British Menu Series 6 Episode 36 of 45 London and South East Starter BBC Retrieved 25 February 2021 Great British Menu Tom Aikens BBC Retrieved 25 February 2021 Shaw Monica 29 March 2013 Great British Menu 2013 The Final Banquet Great British Chefs Retrieved 25 February 2021 Price Katherine 11 November 2020 Great British Menu reveals all star line up of former chef winners for Christmas special The Caterer Retrieved 25 February 2021 Shrimpton David 6 July 2004 2004 Catey award winners unveiled The Caterer Retrieved 22 March 2021 Newcomer of the Year Tom Aikens Caterer amp Hotelkeeper Vol 193 no 4331 8 14 July 2004 p R13 ISSN 0008 7777 ProQuest 222763014 Afiya Amanda 18 September 2007 Roux brothers win AA s Lifetime Achievement award The Caterer Retrieved 26 February 2021 Tom Aikens The Caterer 12 May 2005 Retrieved 22 March 2021 CatererSearch 100 the full list The Caterer 20 September 2006 Retrieved 6 March 2021 Caterer and Hotelkeeper 100 Tom Aikens 1 July 2011 Retrieved 22 March 2021 a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a Cite magazine requires magazine help Walker Tim 30 March 2011 Aikens breaks silence on split The Daily Telegraph p 6 ISSN 0307 1235 ProQuest 859030468 Wallop Harry 16 January 2020 Tom Aikens I was definitely y know a psycho I looked like I was gonna kill someone The Times ProQuest 2338901803 Retrieved 23 February 2021 Tom Aikens 5 Minute Feast Charity Cook Book Only a Pavement Away 2021 Retrieved 5 August 2021 Further reading editHancock Tiffany 18 March 2006 Keep on running The Daily Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 ProQuest 321341420 Retrieved 22 February 2021 Coren Giles Restaurant review Giles Coren at Oslo Court and Tom Aikens The Times ISSN 0140 0460 ProQuest 319864880 Retrieved 21 March 2021 Kuhn Kerstin 22 April 2010 Tom Aikens and Compass to launch two restaurants at Somerset House The Caterer Retrieved 27 February 2021 Stretton Mark 23 September 2010 Tom Aikens abandons Paramount restaurant purchase Big Hospitality Retrieved 23 March 2021 Hanly Catherine 17 February 2011 Tom Aikens talks about this year s Great British Menu Hot Dinners Retrieved 25 February 2021 Restaurants Tom Aikens Launches Events Service at Somerset House Caterer and Hotelkeeper Vol 201 no 4662 28 January 2011 p 8 ISSN 0008 7777 ProQuest 856109194 Rowbotham Gemma 21 April 2011 Michelin starred chef Tom Aikens to reopen Tom Terrace The Caterer Retrieved 5 March 2021 Sturgess Emma 26 May 2011 Pop up restaurants here today gone tomorrow The Guardian Retrieved 5 March 2011 Hirschmiller Stephanie 25 June 2013 Tom s Kitchen Cooking on the Wharf The Handbook Archived from the original on 6 September 2013 Aikens Tom 18 August 2013 Routine Is Key to Creating Quality Cuisine The New York Times Interview Interviewed by Julia Werdigier ProQuest 2214777985 Retrieved 8 March 2021 Hipwell Deirdre 23 May 2014 Tired of dry land Live on the water The Times p 6 ISSN 0140 0460 ProQuest 1527302820 Retrieved 9 March 2021 Alano Katherine 8 October 2014 Chef Tom Aikens to open Hong Kong restaurant The Caterer Retrieved 23 March 2021 Divecha Devina 27 July 2015 Tom Aikens outlet opening set for September 2015 Hotelier Middle East ISSN 1997 7786 ProQuest 1778806327 Retrieved 16 March 2021 Simpson Leah 18 January 2016 Celebrity chef Tom Aikens to open second Dubai outlet Arabian Business Retrieved 18 March 2021 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tom Aikens Official website Tom Aikens at IMDb Tom Aikens and Tom s Kitchen London England at GreatChefs com Tom s Kitchen at the Wayback Machine archived 11 May 2008 Additional archives 31 January 2010 23 June 2010 7 December 2011 23 May 2013 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tom Aikens amp oldid 1186055331 Tom s Kitchen, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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