Social media is a cruel mistress. Just ask Thomas Straker, a plummy young chef who made his name making drool-inducing butter videos for TikTok, and who put up some pictures of his Notting Hill restaurant’s kitchen team on Instagram this week.
The backlash was swift. That’s because the snaps showed eight white men who all looked eerily alike. The optics weren’t helped by the fact that Straker’s restaurant is on the diverse Golborne Road, and its website claims it’s “a hub of cultures”, specialising in flatbreads.
