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    Chef

    Tommy Banks

    Head Chef & Proprietor, The Black Swan at Oldstead; Co-Proprietor, Roots York

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    Based in
    Oldstead, United Kingdom
    Portrait of Tommy Banks

    i. Biography

    Tommy Banks (born 3 June 1989) is a British Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur from North Yorkshire who became Britain's youngest Michelin-starred chef at age 24 in 2013 when he took over as head chef of The Black Swan at Oldstead, his parents' pub-turned-destination restaurant. He operates two Michelin-starred establishments—The Black Swan at Oldstead and Roots in York (opened 2018)—alongside The Abbey Inn at Byland and a food box business called Made In Oldstead, all built on a philosophy of local sourcing, foraging, and seasonal cooking rooted in his family's five-generation farming heritage.