Tom Aikens closes Tom's Kitchen

22 January 2020 by
Tom Aikens closes Tom's Kitchen

Chef Tom Aikens has closed Tom's Kitchen restaurant in Chelsea, blaming challenging market conditions, and staff and skills shortages.

Aikens said in a statement: "It is with regret that I confirm the closure of Tom's Kitchen Chelsea, as of 2 January 2020. Extremely challenging market conditions, coupled with staff and skills shortages, unfortunately meant that it was no longer viable to continue trading.

"Whilst this is obviously very sad news for myself and all involved in the business, I am hugely proud of everything that we have achieved over the 14 years since opening Tom's Kitchen on Cale Street in 2006."

Aikens opened Muse, his 25-cover fine dining restaurant in London's Belgravia, earlier this month.

He said: "I believe this [Muse] is a restaurant that responds to both the opportunities and challenges of today's restaurant industry and also makes sense for me professionally, after having decided to pause the fine dining offering five years ago."

Aikens continues to run Pots, Pans and Boards in Dubai and three outlets at the Abu Dhabi Edition, and is opening a restaurant and deli in Doha opening later this year.

The Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email

Start the working day with The Caterer’s free breakfast briefing email

Sign Up and manage your preferences below

Check mark icon
Thank you

You have successfully signed up for the Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email and will hear from us soon!

Jacobs Media Group is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Read more.

close

Ad Blocker detected

We have noticed you are using an adblocker and – although we support freedom of choice – we would like to ask you to enable ads on our site. They are an important revenue source which supports free access of our website's content, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

trade tracker pixel tracking