CAN YOU MAKE IT TO HEAD CHEF?

International superchef Conrad Gallagher offers 8 kitchen hopefuls the chance of
a lifetime to becomes Ireland’s HEAD CHEF







Conrad Gallagher, the youngest chef to ever win a Michelin star, is seeking Ireland’s next Head Chef and will select 8 lucky contestants for a life changing experience.  

Are you considered an emerging chef, a stay at home parent or unemployed person that loves to cook? If you have the imagination flair and talent for cooking we want to hear from you! If you have a passion for food, want to fulfill your ambition or a change of career as a professional chef, dream of creating your own recipes or want to raise your game in the kitchen, Conrad Gallagher, the master chef for the stars, will take you on a journey and train you to be potentially Ireland’s next star Head Chef.

After selecting the final 8 contestants each subsequent episode will see our aspiring chefs challenged and encouraged by Chef Conrad who has a life long interest in training up new talent. As a chef that constantly pursues perfection, Conrad will set the 8 finalists tasks to test their cooking abilities as they demonstrate their skill, determination and passion to kick-start or seriously boost their culinary careers. The winner will win a month long paid training course in Conrad’s restaurants in Sligo or Dublin plus 5000 euros cash. If the new chef impresses Conrad they could be offered a full-time job. Other prizes and surprises to be announced.

As each episode reaches boiling point, one hopeful will hang up their apron as the others continue their journey to win the title of Ireland’s Head Chef. As tantrums simmer and egos burnt out, who can handle the heat or be evicted from the kitchen?

Many will apply but there can only be one winner - so apply now for your chance to be crowned Ireland’s Head Chef.

To download an application form visit: www.tv3.ie/headchef          

See also: www.facebook.com/tv3headchef

TV3 Press Office - Maureen Catterson - 01 419 4333
More about …

CONRAD GALLAGHER ….
Gallagher was raised in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. He joined a school punk band "Kakistocracy" but his main passion as a teenager was food and inspired by his grandmother's and mother's home cooking he decided to leave St Eunan's College age 15 and train as a chef at Killybegs Catering College.

After training in Ireland from such a young age, he went on to win 4 gold medals at Hotel Olympia and Chef Ireland. Later he gained invaluable experience with some of Ireland's top chefs before moving to New York to take on his dream of becoming a head chef. In New York he joined the team at the prestigious Plaza Hotel. The Waldorf Astoria's Peacock Alley later recruited him where he spent two years as Sous Chef under the legendary Laurent Manrique. While living in New York he went on to work in Restaurant Daniel and Park Avenue Café. The feedback from food lovers on the new brilliant Irish chef in New York was recognized when Gallagher was appointed personal chef for President Bill Clinton’s party on St Patrick’s Day 1996 in the White House.

As a chef Conrad has been awarded with many top awards such as Irish chef of the year in 1998 and 1999-2001. To top his rise Conrad became the youngest ever chef to receive a coveted Michelin Star for his Peacock Alley restaurant in Dublin. Regardless of being falsely accused of theft by his landlords, imprisoned in New York and cleared of all charges back home, Conrad let his extraordinary talents as a master chef do the talking. He won Restaurant of the Year, Best Service and Wine List and a number of other achievements including Conde Naste Traveler's Top 15 in the World. Whilst living in South Africa, Conrad Gallagher consulted for Sun International Group where he was appointed Group Executive Chef in 2004 designing restaurants, recipes and menus for some of the most prestigious dining establishments in South Africa.

After five years away Conrad returned to Ireland in summer 2009 along with his South African born wife Candice Coetzee and two young sons. The plan was to open a new Irish ‘tasting room’ Salon Des Saveurs on Dublin’s Aungier Street. Since it opened the restaurant has been a roaring success. Conrad also operates an international consulting business across the USA and the Far East. In 2010 the ever-busy super chef also opened Conrad’s Kitchen in Sligo again with ‘booked out’ signs nightly.

Conrad is a skilled writer, has published many cookery books and in late 2010 published his autobiography Back On the Menu.

www.conradgallagher.com