Kevin Dundon

Kevin Dundon
Born	Dublin
Residence	Dunbrody, County Wexford
Nationality	Irish
Education	Dublin College of Catering
Occupation	Chef
Employer	Self-employed
Known for	Heat, Guerrilla Gourmet, Dunbrody Country House Hotel
Spouse(s)	Catherine
Children	Emily, Sophie, Tom

Kevin Dundon is an Irish celebrity chef, television personality and author, known for featuring on television series such as Guerrilla Gourmet and Heat. He is the author of the book, Full on Irish: Contemporary Creative Cooking and his recipes have been featured in publications such as the Sunday Tribune and Weekend magazine in the Irish Independent. He has also cooked for a queen and both an Irish and a US President.

Dundon is the owner of Dunbrody Country House Hotel, in County Wexford, which also houses the Dunbrody Cookery School; the "signature chef" of an "Irish gastropub" located in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida; and the "face" of Las Vegas's Nine Fine Irishmen New York-New York Hotel located restaurant. He has appeared many times on Irish, British, Canadian and American television, including The Afternoon Show on RTÉ One, BBC One's Saturday Kitchen, UKTV's Great Food Live, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ESPN Cable and CBS's The Saturday Early Show.

Dundon was born in Dublin. He worked on a scholarship in Switzerland after finishing school and completing a course at Dublin Institute of Technology, graduating in 1986. He began his career by working in The Old Schoolhouse, a restaurant in Dublin. He then had a job cooking on a cruise liner in the Caribbean before furthering his career by spending eight years at the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts in Canada, at the age of twenty-two becoming the youngest ever executive head chef in the company's history. Dundon returned to Ireland in 1994 and was named the executive chef at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. He opened Dunbrody at the age of thirty, four years after this.

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