RATIONAL would like to congratulate the winner of The Craft Guild of Chefs National Chef of the Year 2021, Thomas Swaby. All finalists are equally deserving and should be proud. Thomas follows in the footsteps of Gordon Ramsey and Mark Sargeant, who also picked up the title. He impressed the judges with his outstanding and alluring 3-course menu Read more here:

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