Beginning in the 1980s, when figures like Wolfgang Puck and Marco Pierre White ushered in the era of the rock star chef, we've taken an outsize interest in what chefs eat when they're off duty. Anthony Bourdain turned this notion into a second career, of course, and countless shows during the age of peak food TV, from Chef's Table to Ugly Delicious, have cast an eye toward where cooks choose to eat when they're not in the kitchen,
Burgess is the 34-year-old host of Topjaw, a small but mighty internet chatshow with chefs and foodies' that, for better or worse, has changed the way Londoners and beyond eat out. Launched in 2023 with his friend Will Warr, who is also Prince and Princess of Wales's videographer (he made Kate's cancer statement video), it has now grown to almost a million followers.