Ross Lewis: Life after Chapter One

"When you get older and look at the runway in front of you, it’s a lot shorter than the one behind."

Ross Lewis. Photograph Moya Nolan

In a world of Covid, climate change and Trump, and whatever else you fancy from the smorgasbord of catastrophe, chaos and calamity, the internal machinations of Irish hospitality rarely trouble the general public.

But when the story broke in May, that chef Ross Lewis had cooked his last service after 29 years at the helm in the kitchen of his internationally renowned Michelin starred Chapter One restaurant, the shock was palpable.