Toby Burrowes

The Path

A London kitchen career tends to be built on repetition, standards, and the ability to hold pace without losing detail. Toby Burrowes came up through that discipline at D'Amicos, then moved into The Square, where training translated into pressure-tested habits. From there, the progression was direct: Head Chef at Elystan Street in London (2016–2020), then Head Chef at Zuma London (2021–2022). The thread through those rooms is consistency under scrutiny, with ZUMA Restaurants, Miro Mayfair, and Cream Group each adding another layer of senior kitchen leadership in London. Since 2023, Toby Burrowes has held the Group Executive Chef role at Restaurant Ours / Cream Group, a position built around wider culinary direction rather than a single pass on the line. The work asks for the same control that marks any strong chefing career: standards held across rooms, timing kept tight, and decisions made at scale without losing the hand of the kitchen.

The Work Today

Group-level chef roles shift the emphasis from individual plates to the shape of the operation itself. It is the sort of appointment that follows years of London kitchen leadership, where consistency is the real output.

Signature

The listed signatures point to a kitchen language that moves between luxury, contrast, and a deliberate sense of fun. Sunken caviar chest, watermelon sashimi, lobster Thermidor, and Grandmas Baked vanilla chocolate chip cookies & ice cream each land differently, but together they show a chef working with recognizable signals of indulgence and comfort. The range matters: polished dishes sit alongside dessert that reads plainly and directly, which suggests confidence in balancing scale with ease.

In Their Words For the Mayfair project, Toby Burrowes framed the brief without padding it out: “I am really over the top so that’s what it will be – something really fun and opulent for Mayfair.” That line sets the tone for the room he was describing. When he added, “There’s no set theme. It will just be sexy and delicious,” the message was even clearer: direction over doctrine, pleasure over concept for its own sake.