‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant

Plates in east London is a meat and dairy-free space, but its chef and owner hates the word ‘vegan’Kirk Haworth, the owner and head chef of the east London restaurant Plates, hates the word vegan. “At least seeing the word on a menu,” he says. “​Plant-based cooking ​i​s not a trend. Not for me, anyway. I’ve been doing it for eight years and it’s just in my soul now.” And yet this week, Haworth became the first UK chef to win a Mic