Cookery Shows & Food Content

Here is how this works in practice. Irish food television sits at the intersection of a serious Michelin scene and a deep regional-custom larder, and we shoot both ends. Restaurant-Patrick-Guilbaud at the Merrion Dublin (two-Michelin, Ireland's longest-held), Aimsir at Cliff at Lyons Co. Kildare (two-Michelin, Jordan Bailey ex-Aimsir Wicklow), Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen (two-Michelin), The Greenhouse, Liath. Glovers Alley. Bastible, and Heron & Grey are the urban anchors; in the regions we work with Neven Maguire at MacNean House Blacklion Cavan.

Here is the short of it. JP McMahon at Tartare and Aniar Galway, and the Ballymaloe House / Cookery School lineage in Cork (the spiritual home of Irish farm-to-table). Custom-side briefs cover Irish stew, boxty, colcannon, Irish soda bread, the full Irish breakfast (rashers, sausages, black pudding, white pudding, eggs, beans. Toast. Grilled tomatoes. White-and-black pud), seafood chowder, Atlantic salmon (wild and farmed), Galway oysters in season (September Galway Oyster Festival), and Cobh wild-Atlantic seafood. For drinks heritage we shoot at the Guinness Storehouse Dublin (St James's Gate, the first 1759 lease site), Jameson Distillery Bow Street and Midleton, and Bushmills (Co.

Antrim — the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery, 1608).

Here is the breakdown. Production-side, every kitchen shoot runs against FSAI (Food Safety Authority of Ireland) compliance — we brief crews on cold-chain handling, allergen separation, and the HACCP protocols that working kitchens enforce during service. Open-kitchen filming during service needs sound-blanket-and-lavalier setups that don't interfere with line communication; closed-kitchen tests are scheduled around prep, often pre-service mornings or post-service late nights. We provide bilingual EN / Irish (Gaeilge) cuts for TG4 commissions and Foras na Gaeilge-funded content. We work with chef talent through the regular agency channels alongside food writers like Donna Hay and Niamh Shields (Eat Like a Girl).

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Format references span Top Chef Ireland and MasterChef Ireland (RTÉ + Virgin Media) on the competition side. The Neven's Irish Seaside Summer / Donal Skehan / Rachel Allen presenter-led custom on the cookery side. Post finishes at Dublin grades with food-safe color calibration (D65, accurate skin tones. Properly desaturated greens for vegetables) and sites-specific cuts for broadcast 16:9, social 9:16 recipe verticals, and 1:1 platter-overhead Instagram.