Chefs from Northern Ireland

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Jenny Bristow

Jenny Bristow

Jennifer Ann Bristow BEM is a Northern Irish cook and cookery writer. She is best known for her cookery television series produced by UTV.

Bristow was brought up on her family's dairy farm near Coleraine. Before her broadcasting career, Bristow worked as a home economics teacher. She has three children.

Bristow made her first television appearance on Ulster Television's Farming Ulster in 1989 demonstrating how to cook with potatoes, which led a producer at the station to offer Bristow her own series.

All of the above series were produced by UTV, and were filmed in a converted barn at Bristow's farm near Cullybackey. Bristow's series have been transmitted in other ITV regions (Border,Central,Grampian,Granada and LWT, and on television stations in the United States and Australia.

Ratings for Bristow's series have peaked at 215,000 viewers in Northern Ireland.

Bristow has so far published twelve cookery books. Books accompanying Bristow's most recent series have been published by Belfast-based publisher Blackstaff Press. Recipes from Bristow's books have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life newspapers.

As well as her television and writing work, Bristow takes part in cookery demonstrations and corporate and charitable events. Bristow has taken part in corporate events such as the Balmoral Show and Women on the Move, as well as fundraising events for UNICEF, Macmillan Cancer, the British Heart Foundation and Northern Ireland Hospice Care. Bristow has also been involved in awareness campaigns encouraging people to consume less salt and getting children to practice healthy eating.

In 2007, a Ballymena-based company introduced a biscuit range using recipes created by Bristow.

Bristow was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and the food industry in Northern Ireland.

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Michael Deane

Michael Deane

Michael Deane (born 19 March 1961) is a chef from Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

Deane started his career at Claridge's in London. In 1993 he moved back to Northern Ireland and opened Deane's on the Square with his cousin, the entrepreneur, Haydn Deane in Helen's Bay, County Down. It was there they first won their Michelin Star.

In 1997 he opened a two storey establishment in Belfast's city centre. It comprises Deane's Brasserie on the ground floor and Restaurant Michael Deane on the first floor. In the same year the restaurant was awarded a Michelin Star. In 2007 the name of the restaurant was changed to the simpler Deanes. It held this for 13 years, making it the longest running and only Michelin Star holder in Northern Ireland however lost this accolade in 2011, because of a temporary closure due to frost- and water damage. Deanes has also been awarded four Automobile Association Rosettes. The Brasserie holds a Bib Gourmand from Michelin. He also owns Deanes Deli in Belfast., and has opened Deanes at Queens and Simply Deanes at the Bridgewater Outlet in Banbridge.

In 2010 Deane joined the University of Ulster as a visiting professor.

Deane is married to UTV Live presenter Kate Smith and they have an adopted son, Marco.

Roger Moore is a fan, having eaten lunch and dinner at the restaurant for three days straight during a trip to Belfast. Other clients of the restaurant are U2, John Rocha, Lloyd Grossman and Jean Kennedy Smith and Cliff Richard.

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Noel McMeel

Noel McMeel is an Irish chef who is executive head chef at Lough Erne Golf Resort and Hotel in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. He describes his cooking as "modern Irish cuisine".

He studied at the Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College before training in a number of restaurants, including working for the well known Irish Chef Paul Rankin. He then earned a scholarship to attend Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. Following this he worked in a number of establishments, including the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. and Chez Panisse in San Francisco. He opened his own restaurant Trompets in the late 1990s.

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Robbie Millar

Robbie Millar (26 April 1967 – 13 August 2005) was a head chef and restaurateur from Ballycarry in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Millar started his career at restaurants in Corfu, Zurich and London before returning to Northern Ireland to work in Paul Rankin's Roscoff restaurant in Belfast. While at Roscoff he met his future wife Shirley, who managed the restaurant. In 1994 he opened Shanks Restaurant at the Blackwood golf centre, part of the Clandeboye Estate in Bangor.

In 1996 the restaurant was awarded a Michelin Star, an award it held for ten years. Other awards include the Egon Ronay Guide Newcomer of the Year in 1995 and three Automobile Association rosettes. Millar was columnist for the Belfast Telegraph and made regular television appearances as a judge on the BBC's MasterChef programme with Lloyd Grossman.

Influenced by Rankin, Shanks had a Californian style. The interior of the restaurant was designed by Terence Conran.

In August 2005 Millar was killed in a car accident on the Ballysallagh Road near Holywood, County Down. His Maserati left the road, hitting a fence and killing him instantly. The road is an accident blackspot, with two other deaths in April 2006. His funeral was attended by other prominent local chefs Paul & Jeanne Rankin and Michael Deane. On 31 May 2006 the coroner's report into Millar's death was released. It found that he died of multiple injuries, mainly caused by the fence he crashed into. A road accident expert stated that if the fence had met new safety standards, Millar might have survived the crash. While his blood alcohol level was found to be marginally over the legal limit, the coroner did not find this to be a significant cause.

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Paul Rankin

Paul Rankin

Paul Rankin (born 1 October 1959 Glasgow, Scotland) is a celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. Rankin's parents moved back to Ballywalter, where he grew up, some time after he was born. This was stated when he was the subject of an episode of a short programme named Proud Parents on Channel 4, made in 2006. On the episode of Ready Steady Cook first broadcast on Tuesday 26 February 2008, he himself stated he was born in Scotland.

In 1989 Paul Rankin opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in Northern Ireland. Soon after opening, it became the favourite meeting place for the Belfast business and arts community, and people travelled from Dublin simply to experience what was considered to be the best cooking in Northern Ireland at the time. It closed in March 2013, with Rankin blaming, according to the Belfast Telegraph, the "Union Flag protests and bleak economy." The influence of Paul and Jeanne Rankin on Irish cuisine continues today, with many of the chefs in restaurants in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland having started their careers in the kitchen of Roscoff.

His first foray into television was in the series Gourmet Ireland, produced by Irish company Waddell Productions, and shown on both BBC and RTE. Both Paul and Jeanne starred in the show that was noted for the banter between the two. Jeanne is a successful pastry chef. He has since been a regular chef on the BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook. In 1999 Rankin was the first chef from Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin Star. He has written five cookery books & ran The Rankin Group chain of restaurants & cafés, including Cayenne and Roscoff in Belfast. His Canadian wife Jeanne introduced him to cooking and is co-owner of their business.

In 2006 Rankin competed in the Northern Ireland heat of the BBC's Great British Menu, a competition to cook for the Queen on her 80th birthday.

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Clare Smyth

Clare Smyth MBE (born 1978) is a Northern Irish chef who was Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay from 2012–16. She became the first female British chef to hold and retain three Michelin stars. Before returning to London in 2007 as Head Chef for Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Clare worked at Le Louis XV by Alain Ducasse in Monaco. Along with winning Chef of the Year 2013, She also achieved the perfect score 10/10 in the 2015 edition of the Good Food Guide. She regularly appears on TV shows such as Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen.

Smyth grew up on a farm in County Antrim. She was the youngest of three children to her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.

At the age of fifteen, Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef. Clare left school at sixteen to study catering at Highbury College in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

While at culinary college, she served an apprenticeship at Grayshott Hall, Surrey. She left that post to work full-time at Terrance Conran's restaurant at Michelin House, London. She followed this with a six-month period in Australia to work for a catering company, and on her return to the UK she staged at a variety of restaurants including The Waterside Inn and Gidleigh Park. She worked at the restaurant of the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, Cornwall, first as sous chef and then afterwards as head chef. While there, she won the title of Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year.

In 2002 Gordon Ramsay offered her a post at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay.

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