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Richard Corrigan
Richard Corrigan (born 10 February 1964) is an Irish chef. He serves as the chef/patron of Corrigan's Bar & Restaurant Mayfair, Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill, Daffodil Mulligan Restaurant & Gibney's Bar in London, Virginia Park Lodge and adjoining pub the Deerpark Inn in Virginia, County Cavan, and most recently The Portrait Restaurant, located on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Richard Corrigan was born and raised in Ballivor, County Meath. He was raised on a small, rural farm of around 25 acres, and credits his upbringing for making him "very unpretentious about good food... it instills respect, because you know the hard graft that goes into producing it".
He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology, but left school at the age of 14 to work as a trainee chef in the Kirwin Hotel in Athboy, Ireland. At the time the school leaving age in Ireland was 16. At age 17, Corrigan moved to the Netherlands to work at several hotels to gain further experience, including the Hilton in Amsterdam, where he recalls the Head Chef achieving a Michelin Star: "I remember him sending me out in the middle of the night to pick herbs without a torch. We were so frightened of him. When Michelin gave him the star, all the kitchen staff went on strike."
After spending four years in the Netherlands, Richard Corrigan moved to London in 1985 to work with Michel Lorrain, father of Chef Jean-Michel Lorain, at the Le Méridien hotel in Piccadilly.
Following this, Corrigan headed up Stephen Bull's Blandford Street Restaurant, before moving to Mulligan's in Mayfair and taking a stint as Head Chef at future acquisition Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill. He returned to work for Bull in 1994, launching Fulham Road where he gained his first Michelin star.
A collaboration with contract caterer Searcys in 1996 led to projects such as Searcy's Brasserie at the Barbican, the opening of the House restaurant and the English Garden, both in Chelsea, and the prized contract to operate an exclusive restaurant and bar atop The Gherkin in 2004.
In 1997, he opened Lindsay House in Soho, London. Located in a four-storey 1740s townhouse, the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star in 1999 and quickly developed into a London favourite. More accolades followed, with Corrigan winning the Outstanding London Chef award in the 2000 Carlton London Restaurant Awards, and Lindsay House being named one of London's five finest restaurants by Gault Millat in 2005.
In 2005, he purchased Bentley's, where he had previously worked as Head Chef under owner Oscar Owide and carried out extensive renovations, returning the listed building to its former glory and realising the potential he had seen there years before. He went on to open Corrigan's Mayfair in 2008, which received accolades such as being awarded London Restaurant of the Year by the Evening Standard in 2008, earning three AA Rosettes, and being named ‘AA London Restaurant of the Year’ in 2009. It also received a high ranking in the National Restaurant Awards.
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Richard Corrigan
Richard Corrigan (born 10 February 1964) is an Irish chef. He serves as the chef/patron of Corrigan's Bar & Restaurant Mayfair, Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill, Daffodil Mulligan Restaurant & Gibney's Bar in London, Virginia Park Lodge and adjoining pub the Deerpark Inn in Virginia, County Cavan, and most recently The Portrait Restaurant, located on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Richard Corrigan was born and raised in Ballivor, County Meath. He was raised on a small, rural farm of around 25 acres, and credits his upbringing for making him "very unpretentious about good food... it instills respect, because you know the hard graft that goes into producing it".
He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology, but left school at the age of 14 to work as a trainee chef in the Kirwin Hotel in Athboy, Ireland. At the time the school leaving age in Ireland was 16. At age 17, Corrigan moved to the Netherlands to work at several hotels to gain further experience, including the Hilton in Amsterdam, where he recalls the Head Chef achieving a Michelin Star: "I remember him sending me out in the middle of the night to pick herbs without a torch. We were so frightened of him. When Michelin gave him the star, all the kitchen staff went on strike."
After spending four years in the Netherlands, Richard Corrigan moved to London in 1985 to work with Michel Lorrain, father of Chef Jean-Michel Lorain, at the Le Méridien hotel in Piccadilly.
Following this, Corrigan headed up Stephen Bull's Blandford Street Restaurant, before moving to Mulligan's in Mayfair and taking a stint as Head Chef at future acquisition Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill. He returned to work for Bull in 1994, launching Fulham Road where he gained his first Michelin star.
A collaboration with contract caterer Searcys in 1996 led to projects such as Searcy's Brasserie at the Barbican, the opening of the House restaurant and the English Garden, both in Chelsea, and the prized contract to operate an exclusive restaurant and bar atop The Gherkin in 2004.
In 1997, he opened Lindsay House in Soho, London. Located in a four-storey 1740s townhouse, the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star in 1999 and quickly developed into a London favourite. More accolades followed, with Corrigan winning the Outstanding London Chef award in the 2000 Carlton London Restaurant Awards, and Lindsay House being named one of London's five finest restaurants by Gault Millat in 2005.
In 2005, he purchased Bentley's, where he had previously worked as Head Chef under owner Oscar Owide and carried out extensive renovations, returning the listed building to its former glory and realising the potential he had seen there years before. He went on to open Corrigan's Mayfair in 2008, which received accolades such as being awarded London Restaurant of the Year by the Evening Standard in 2008, earning three AA Rosettes, and being named ‘AA London Restaurant of the Year’ in 2009. It also received a high ranking in the National Restaurant Awards.