Weekend food with Darina Allen

From time to time we invite a chef whose food we admire and enjoy, to come to the school to teach a guest chef course.

Last weekend a Finnish chef who has been making waves in Co Clare for the past few years bounced into the school to share his skills, techniques and boundless enthusiasm for food.

Mickael Viljanen took over the kitchen at Gregans Castle on the edges of the Burren in 2007 and soon began to cause a stir. In 2011 he was awarded Best Chef in Ireland by both ‘Food & Wine Magazine’ and the Restaurant Association of Ireland. People travelled far and wide to taste his food often falling in love with Co Clare in the process.