Where Michelin-star chefs go for chips… including two NI spots: ‘Going there brings me back to being a child'
In a weekly series, chefs across the island of Ireland who currently hold one or more Michelin stars share their greatest culinary secret: where do they eat when off-duty?
High-end chefs might spend most of their working hours delicately tweezing micro herbs onto plates of perfectly composed food, but ask them about comfort food and you'll find something interesting. Just like the rest of us, they love a good bag of chips.
Wrapped in brown paper and doused in salt and vinegar, steaming hot and eaten with your fingers, it's a culinary classic and for many, chips from a chippy is a deeply nostalgic comfort food. And after a long shift in a hot kitchen, most chefs would bite your hand off for a bag.
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