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, and Virginia Park Lodge in Virginia, County Cavan. Early life
Richard Corrigan was born and raised in Ballivor, County Meath. He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology. Career
Having spent several years in the Netherlands, Richard Corrigan became the head chef of Mulligan's in Mayfair, London. He received his first Michelin star while serving as the head chef at Stephen Bull in Fulham in 1994. In 1997, he opened Lindsay House in Soho, London, and achieved a Michelin star there. In 2005, he purchased Bentley's and carried out renovations. 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. Richard Corrigan has been crowned the winner of the Great British Menu three times. Additionally, he won the Great British Waste Menu special in 2010, which aired on BBC 1 prime time to an audience of over 7 million viewers and culminated in a dinner at the House of Lords. Politics
He is well known in Ireland for his outspoken opinions and he is an occasional contributor to RTÉ Radio 1 discussions on Brexit. In December 2017 he said of the UK, "Never have I seen a country led so badly in my life - by a bunch of monkeys, frankly. I'd like to have them all at a Christmas party and give them the worst hiding they could imagine." In June 2018 he said London is "led by a load of donkeys", and of the UK Cabinet "Harrow, Eton and these private schools where most of these absolute monkeys come out of. I'd love to smack their arses with a big cane." Television

Cookery School (Channel 4)
Chef's Race (BBC America)
Great British Menu (BBC Two)
Great British Food Revival (BBC Two)
Full On Food, Saturday Kitchen (BBC One)
Market Kitchen (UKTV)
 Something For The Weekend (BBC Two)
The Wright Stuff (Channel 5)
Corrigan Knows Food (RTÉ)
The Taste (Channel 4)

Books
 1999:  The Richard Corrigan Cookbook:  From the Waters to the Wild published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, ASIN: B001LN4LGY 
 2008:  The Clatter of Forks and Spoons: Honest, Happy Food published by Fourth Estate,  
 2011:  Cookery School: Where anyone can learn to cook published by Penguin Books,

See also

 List of oyster bars

References

Further reading
 Channel 4 article

External links
 
 Corrigan's Mayfair
 Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill
 Great British Menu
 RTE Corrigan Knows Food web page
 Corrigan's biography on bbc.co.uk

Living people
1964 births
People from County Meath
Alumni of Dublin Institute of Technology
Irish male chefs