Communal dining - Sabrina Gidda & Thom Bateman

14th July 2025

Thom Bateman is a restaurant owner and fine dining chef who has become known for his social media content. Thom’s first solo project ‘The Flintlock at Cheddleton’ opened in 2020. The restaurant is set alongside the canal in North Staffordshire and quickly rose to popularity and critical acclaim receiving 2 AA rosettes. Thom has amassed a huge 2.5 million followers TikTok. Sabrina Gidda is a Chef, Hospitality Consultant and Author. She twice competed in the prestigious Roux Scholarship competition in 2014/15, to the final 6 contestants nationally on both – the only woman to do so in the competition’s history at the time. She went on to open Bernardi’s Restaurant in Marylebone and was instrumental in their culinary accolades. Her debut book Modern South Asian Kitchen was published in 2023.