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Thomas Straker

Thomas Straker is a British chef and food creator behind All Things Butter, Straker’s restaurants and the cookbook Food You Want to Eat, sharing seasonal cooking built around good ingredients.

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Overview

From: Raised on a smallholding in Herefordshire, England.
Work: Chef, restaurateur, food creator and cookbook author.
Training: Ballymaloe Cookery School, followed by kitchens including The Dorchester and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.
Breakout: Home-cooking videos during lockdown, followed by the All Things Butter series in 2022.
First restaurant: Straker’s, Notting Hill, opened in 2022.

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How it started.

Thomas grew up on a smallholding in Herefordshire, where fishing, foraging and farming helped shape his interest in ingredients. After Ballymaloe Cookery School, he worked at The Dorchester and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, later joining Phil Howard at Elystan Street as sous chef in 2017.

Finding an audience.

During lockdown, Thomas began sharing home-cooking videos. His publisher identifies the butter videos as a breakout trend in 2022. The playful flavour combinations became All Things Butter, a business he co-founded with Toby Hopkinson in 2023.

From screen to table.

Thomas opened Straker’s on Golborne Road in Notting Hill in 2022. His cooking centres on seasonal produce, straightforward techniques and Italian influences. The debut cookbook Food You Want to Eat arrived in 2025; by October 2026, he had also opened his first restaurant outside London, in New York’s SoHo.

Creditschronological, newest first

Books and publishing

2026Food You Want to Eat on SubstackWriter and recipe creator
2025Food You Want to EatAuthor

Restaurants and food businesses

2026Straker’s New YorkChef and restaurateur
2025Acre, Notting HillChef and founder
2023All Things ButterCo-founder with Toby Hopkinson
2022Straker’s, Notting HillChef and founder

Awards

Tasting Table’s best cookbooks of 2025Food You Want to Eat was included in the publication’s editorial selection.

Quotes

Use the best ingredients, keep things simple, seasonal, and focus on flavour.Thomas Straker, Food You Want to Eat on Substack

His cooking philosophy, in the welcome post published on 11 June 2026: https://thomasstraker.substack.com/p/intro

Trivia

His first lockdown recipe video was chicken schnitzel with burnt salsa and fennel slaw, according to his introduction to the recipe on Bloomsbury’s site.
The mussel flatbread has been on the London restaurant’s menu since it opened; Thomas brought it to the New York restaurant too.
Straker’s lager was first made at his uncle’s brewery. For New York, the same recipe is brewed at Great South Bay Brewery.