This has been key in enabling the company to develop a customer portfolio that includes some of the UK’s best chefs, restauranteurs and hotels. With quality being the LDF byword, it has been crucial to scale up the business slowly so that the core elements of the LDF ethos are not lost.
These relationships have been, and still are, crucial in enabling LDF to become synonymous with producing some of the best quality, breed specific meat available. With a strong team around them, Dan, Hayden and Sales Director, Russell Dodd, are able to continue to nurture the relationships they have established with the LDF farmers and their animals.
This is the first star for Muse, his newest restaurant and the opening of which marked his return to fine dining.Lake District Farmers work with over 50 Cumbrian farms. His eponymous restaurant, Tom Aikens, was also awarded a star in its first year, in 2003, followed by ‘Rising-Two-Star’ status in 2008. Tom still holds the title as the UK’s youngest chef to gain two Michelin stars, aged just 26, at London’s Pied- à-Terre. Dishes champion just a couple of key ingredients, use carefully selected produce – a vast majority of which is from Norfolk, Tom’s home county – and aim to simultaneously intrigue and scintillate guests. For example, a dish titled ‘The love affair continues’, is inspired by Tom’s French mentors Joël Robuchon and Pierre Koffmann, honouring Robuchon’s signature mashed potato and Koffmann’s renowned method of cooking fish in goose fat. With six and ten-course tasting menus, each dish harks back to something or someone who has influenced Tom, paying subtle and artful culinary homage. Through Tom’s take on experience-led dining, Muse invites guests on a culinary journey that has been designed to create lasting memories. Muse’s menus are inspired by nostalgia and the pivotal moments and key people from Tom’s personal life and career. Interiors are by Rebecca Korner who worked closely with Tom to create Muse’s memorable and distinctly intimate setting. Housed in a converted Georgian townhouse on a cobbled mews, the restaurant seats 25 guests over two floors, with dramatic open kitchens with interiors which allow guests to be immersed in the experience. The restaurant opened in January 2020 to critical acclaim (9/10 – The Guardian (Grace Dent), 4* – The Telegraph (Kathryn Flett)) and has been heralded as a must-visit destination restaurant amongst London’s dining scene. Despite the current circumstances, we sincerely hope and believe that we will all be able to get back to doing what we love soon – our journey has only just begun and we have a lot more in store for you all… We’ll be back with a bang as soon as we can!” Every cloud has a silver lining, thank you Michelin! Myself and my team are absolutely chuffed, and grateful to Michelin for awarding this to us so soon. On receiving the award Tom Aikens says: “ After what has been an unimaginably challenging year for everyone, this is the most thrilling news we could have hoped for. It has been a turbulent time for the industry, and receipt of its first Michelin star is a hugely welcome accolade. Tom and team are thrilled with the recognition of their work through receipt of this iconic award, especially after having only been able to trade for just over four months. Only having opened in January 2020, and following months of enforced closure, this is a huge achievement for Tom and his team of 15 front and back of house staff. Muse by Tom Aikens – the experience-led, 25-seater townhouse restaurant – has been awarded its first Michelin star. Muse – one of London’s newest fine dining restaurants (January 2020) – has been awarded its first Michelin Star
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