The Menu: Soul food

The Menu has often wondered if it would be possible to hitch up his old mucker, chef Gary O’Hanlon (VM Restaurant at Viewmount House, Co Longford), to some class of generator for the man’s indefatigable energy could power half the planet. 

In addition to juggling one of the country’s top restaurants, regular TV duties and public demos with the demands of new fatherhood, he has found time to produce the wonderful Food For The Soul in association with Bluebird Care, a donation from each book going to the Active Retirement Ireland charity.

Though the bould O’Hanlon may be one of the most renowned chefs in the country, cooking to an exceptionally high standard, Food For The Soul is a delightfully un-‘cheffy’ production with ego parked outside.