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Number 1 on the 2025 list
Adejoké Bakare is a chef and owner from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for taking Chishuru to 40th in the UK's National Restaurant Awards top 100.
In June 2025 Chishuru, Adejoké Bakare's West African restaurant in London, ranked 40th in the UK's National Restaurant Awards top 100. The same year it stayed in the Michelin Guide's Great Britain and Ireland results, now listed in Soho with Bakare named as chef. She opened Chishuru at Brixton Village in 2020 and in 2024 became the first Black woman chef in the UK to win a Michelin star.