Neven Maguire: Home Chef

Following the success of Neven Maguire's first two popular series' which featured small and medium sized producers, and the great success of Irish exports respectively, the top chef and restaurateur now turns his attention to some of Ireland's most popular and recognisable brands.

In this third 10-part series, Neven visits some of Ireland's best known brands and, in some cases, the farmers that supply the raw ingredients. Many of these brands are still owned by the original families, and some of the companies are the oldest privately owned companies in Ireland. As before, Neven will cook dishes that are adapted from dishes he serves in his restaurant.
Some of these recipes will be shot on location using a mobile kitchen, in front of a small crowd, enabling Neven to interact with the audience and give them the opportunity to try out his delicious dishes. Other recipes will be filmed in his kitchen at home in Blacklion.

Introductions to most of the programmes will be filmed, as before, in Neven's hugely popular McNean's restaurant kitchen in Blacklion Co Cavan.

This new series will see Neven visiting the people and companies behind some of Ireland's most popular and best known food brands including Myrtle Allen, founder of Ballymaloe; Patrick Bewley, grandson of the man who founded Bewleys Cafe in 1937;
the chief cheese taster at Kilmeadens in Kilkenny; the chief blender of Barry's tea in Cork and Mr. Tayto, Ray Coyle at Tayto Park.