{"id":127777,"date":"2025-10-17T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127777\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:11:10","slug":"irelands-private-chefs-its-not-cheap-but-if-you-compare-it-to-booking-a-babysitter-getting-a-taxi-and-paying-for-a-meal-with-wine-its-actually-not-bad-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127777\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s private chefs: \u2018It\u2019s not cheap, but if you compare it to booking a babysitter, getting a taxi and paying for a meal with wine, it\u2019s actually not bad value\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWe might think they\u2019re the preserve of the rich and famous, but many private chefs say plenty of regular Irish families avail of their services, whether to prepare weekly meals or throw dinner parties\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's private chefs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tyImages_2170379103.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland&#8217;s private chefs<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Paul McVeigh doesn\u2019t hesitate when asked about the highlight of his career as a private chef \u2013 the week he spent in the Galapagos Islands, the remote location famed for its wildlife and for inspiring Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today McVeigh owns the popular Dublin restaurants Mister S and Featherblade, but in his 20s, he spent time as a private chef to movie stars and wealthy business people in the US and further afield. It was while crewing on a Russian billionaire\u2019s superyacht that he got to sail around South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We might think they\u2019re the preserve of the rich and famous, but many private chefs say plenty of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[57044,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-127777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alex-meehan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}