About the Sharp Chef

The New and improved Sharp Chef 2.0 is up and running!

As of January 1st 2026 we are back. This time with renewed focus on simplicity. As before we are a family run business we intend to grow and nurture with passion and care increasing our ranges and improving our services as we grow.

We offer a solid range of carefully selected, high quality knives and accessories. Our knives come from a select group of Japanese makers, from single artisans to high volume workhorses, everything is of the utmost quality and authenticity. 

As we begin our new journey we are only able to run this business part time and so will offer shipping twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, and so delivery may take a week. 

Everytime you buy from us you contribute to our growth and make us stronger, and so we are immensely grateful every time you choose to buy from The Sharp Chef!

For those who don't know, following several successful years of our little family run business since opening in 2017, in 2023 things started to turn downwards with increasing costs and stronger competition. At the same time we experienced some changes in our families circumstance which made running this business the way we wanted to impossible and eventually closed our doors in September 2025. 

Well, I am very pleased to say that our family circumstances are now strong and thriving and we are ready for version 2.0.

Our Journey so far:

We opened in 2017 with a limited selection of knives, working from our little kitchen and grew our business slowly working with professional chefs and our growing customer base to expand our products and improve our service. In 2019 we moved to an office in the garden and improved our delivery times.

During Covid, with more people shopping online and getting into cooking at home we thrived and outgrew our space so we moved into a nice new office and expanded our ranges, brought on new suppliers and offered next day delivery.

In 2023 we started to feel the pinch as more shops opened and sale prices got squeezed while knives went up in price for us to buy. As a result our sales began to decline and we had to return to a home office. Sadly this pinch became more of a tight squeeze and we struggled to find the balance between competitive prices and profitability, but we couldn't find the right balance for a business of our size. We also struggled with some difficult family circumstances between 2023 and 2025 which prevented us from being able to give our family run business the attention to find a profitable path forward.

In September 2025, after a significant scaling back, we eventually closed our doors.

Happily, due to some good fortune our family circumstances have recovered, and The Sharp Chef reopened in January 2026.