Tomfoodery Kitchen

Tomfoodery Kitchen

After 19 years of working for successful restaurants and chefs in Miami, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, Chef Thomas Tennant launched Tomfoodery Kitchen in 2019.  With his passion for food and 19 years in the culinary industry, Chef Thomas is ready to bring his ‘local-ish’ style of cuisine to Cayman.  Tomfoodery Kitchen offers a selection of services from locally made products and customized menus, to cooking classes and upscale private events.

Cooking started at an early age for Thomas when he began testing recipes from his family’s library.  His passion for cooking grew in his pursuit to bring satisfaction and joy to people through his food.  It was only after working for James Beard Award winner, Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in Miami, Florida in 2007 that Thomas learned to utilize local ingredients in an approachable manner.  In 2010 he became the Head Chef of Michael’s Genuine in Grand Cayman and was able to bring this ideology to the island.  In 2015 he became the Head Chef of The Brasserie, a restaurant known in Cayman for its dedication to using local products with its own fishing boats and garden.  He returned to working with Chef Schwartz in 2017 to open and head Fi’lia in the SLS Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas, where he brought his knowledge and experience from Miami, Cayman and lionfish to the island.  Upon returning to Grand Cayman, Thomas has launched his own company, Tomfoodery Kitchen, a concept centered on using local ingredients and flavours in combination with his knowledge of global influences and techniques.  In short, it’s Local-ish!