The Piano Bar at Rachel's 3.22

Rachel was brought up in Dublin and left home at eighteen to study at the world-famous Ballymaloe Cookery School. She lives close to Ballymaloe in her seaside home, with her husband Issac, sons Lucca and Joshua and their daughter Scarlett.

As well as being Irelands newest restaurateur, Rachel is also a busy TV cook, author, journalist, and mother, and still teaches at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork.

Rachel's style of cooking is above all practical - simple but delicious food. Her influences are both regional and global. The BBC describe her as an "Irish cooking queen" and Good Food magazine believe she "has put Irish cooking on the map in recent years".