Wild Honey Inn owners on why they are selling their €1.25m Michelin-starred pub

Joe McNamee chats with the owners of Wild Honey Inn in Lisdoonvarna about the journey to getting a Michelin star, and their decision to put the business up for sale and begin a new chapter

Wild Honey Inn in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare. Picture: Eamon Ward

It appears the Irish culinary constellation is set to shine less brightly with news that another Irish Michelin-starred restaurant, Wild Honey Inn, in Lisdoonvarna, in Co Clare, has been put up for sale for €1.25m by its owner-operators chef Aidan McGrath and his wife, Kate, as they look to move onto the next chapter of their lives together.

Both were born and raised in Co Mayo — Aidan from Belmullet and Kate from Doohoma — but Aidan's decision to become a chef was as much accident as design.