Tom Aikens also named Tom Aitkens, 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.
Aikens’s current restaurants include Michelin-starred London restaurant Muse, which 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.
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.
Aikens won the Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 Catey Awards for his newly established eponymous restaurant. Among the top 100 most influential figures of the UK hospitality industry, The Caterer ranked Aikens 71st in 2005, 97th in 2006, 94th in 2010, and 89th in 2011.
Tom Aikens Children: Does Tom Aikens Have Kids?
Aikens married his partner of nine years Justine Dobbs-Higginson, a former Goldman Sachs banker, in Corsica in the summer of 2018. They have two daughters.
Tom Aikens’ daughter Violette is already au fait with the small matter of international travel.
The chef has just returned from Mauritius with his family and when I ask about whether he was nervous about a 12-hour flight with such a young tot, he reveals he was actually quite relaxed about the journey.
“She is quite a well-travelled baby, we went to the Maldives when she was six months old,” he says with a hint of pride.