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A Guide for Chefs Seeking Work in Ireland: Navigating the Visa Process

Introduction For Chefs Seeking Work In Ireland

Are you a talented chef from outside the EU or UK, dreaming of working in Ireland? You might be wondering about the legal and technical hurdles you need to overcome. This guide is specifically designed for chefs seeking work in Ireland and will provide you with the information you need.

Cliffs of Moher for Chefs Seeking Work in Ireland

Understanding the Irish Work Permit System

As a chef recruitment agency, we often receive interest from chefs from outside both the European Union and the United Kingdom looking to work as a chef in Ireland. Very often, the curriculum vitae and backgrounds of the applicants are very strong. Yet, very often we cannot offer them any assistance whatsoever. Why is this, you might ask? The answer is straightforward: unless they hold a European Union passport or, should I say, a passport from a European Union nation state, or a United Kingdom passport (thanks to the Common Travel Area), they do not have an automatic right to work in the Republic of Ireland. For more information, you can visit the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) website.

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Chef Trial Shifts – 12 Steps To Winning Big

As a chef recruiter, I always appreciate when a restaurant offers chef trial shifts to candidates of mine. A chef can showcase their skills while using the event as an opportunity to determine if the restaurant/hotel/caterer is a good fit for them and their career goals. It’s also, equally, an opportunity for a client to “check out the goods” and help them determine if the chef is a good fit for their business and to see how they fit in. Either way the workflow towards chef jobs these days is increasingly likely to encompases trial shifts.

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Don’t Make These 8 Chef Job Hunting Mistakes

In the post pandemic or mass staff shortages a lot of hospitality professionals, especially chefs, have forgotten what a “buyers market” in jobs feels like. Well I’m going to stick my neck out a bit and predict that this huge undersupply in staff isn’t here to stay. The time to care about whether you make chef job hunting mistakes, unfortunately, is soon to be upon you. So now might be a good time to make sure you’re not one of the losers in the

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Chefs call for June 25th to be made international Bourdain Day

Celebrity chefs and authors Jose Andres and Eric Ripert are calling on chefs the world over to make June 25th International Anthony Bourdain day.

Ripert, who is the chef and the owner of Le Bernardin in New York, used his Twitter account to tweet a video of himself and fellow culinary icon Andres. Both Ripert and Andres were close friends of Bourdain and both were deeply impacted by Bourdain’s suicide last year. This is especially true in the case of Ripert whose misfortune it was to discover Bourdain’s body in his hotel room.

Ripert: ”On June 25th, we all are going to celebrate the birthday of our dear friend and beloved Anthony Bourdain.”

The world after Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain took his own life on June 9 2018, while filming an episode of Parts Unknown in Strasbourg, France, leaving colleagues, ex-colleagues, and fans the world over confused and devastated.

Bourdain’s reputation as a chef was cemented at New York’s Brasserie Les Halles while it was his kitchen memoir “Kitchen Confidential” which first brought him international acclaim as an author while catapulting him into a highly successful career as a broadcaster.

His other books, including; A Cook’s Tour and The Nasty Bits were international bestsellers and his shows; the Nasty Bits, No Reservations, The Layover and Parts Unknown between 2002 and 2018 were massive hits.

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José Andrés to become first Nobel Peace Prize winning chef?

Winning a Michelin star is nice! Winning a Nobel Peace Prize is something else and José Andrés  looks poised to become the first chef to win one. Andrés has just been nominated by politician John Delaney (D-Md.) who confirmed the nomination to the Washington Post.

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Clare Smyth trashes restaurant critic

Surely there can be few ventures to induce both anxiety and fear to the extent of a new restaurant opening. Clare Smyth  is more than one of Britain’s greatest chefs, having helmed restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Michelin Three Star, for so many years she can justifiably claim to be one of the world’s greatest chefs. You would think, that this would buy Clare Smyth some breathing space from restaurant critics? Well, as you’re about to find out, when you watch this video, nothing could be further from the truth.

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