{"id":137706,"date":"2025-10-22T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:23:12","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ate-to-survive-it-was-all-very-bland-very-basic-former-buckingham-palace-chef-dan-ottaway-on-cooking-for-the-royals-and-his-move-to-wicklow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137706\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Queen Elizabeth ate to survive. It was all very bland, very basic\u2019 \u2013 former Buckingham Palace chef Dan Ottaway on cooking for the royals and his move to Wicklow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Executive head chef Dan Ottaway on the grounds of the Tulfarris Hotel &amp; Golf Resort in Blessington, Co Wicklow. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8cd5659c-b4ec-47db-8754-27dfa9735db9.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)\">Executive head chef Dan Ottaway on the grounds of the Tulfarris Hotel &amp; Golf Resort in Blessington, Co Wicklow. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">\u201cLots of people say that one day Disney will ask us for the movie rights,\u201d laughs Dan Ottaway, referring to the meeting of he and his Irish fianc\u00e9e Deirdre Colgan in the regal surroundings of Buckingham Palace. \u201cI was a chef in the palace and she was a footman.\u201d<\/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)\">It\u2019s a love story that embraces both the real-life Upstairs, Downstairs scenario and offers a \u2018cast of royals\u2019 that far outshines that of Downton Abbey. Nine years later, and now with two young children, Roise and Ada, to escape the hustle and bustle of London the couple have relocated to Ireland with Ottaway taking up the role of executive head chef at the Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort in Blessington, Co Wicklow. The relocation deal, of course, was sealed by Colgan enticing Ottaway with the possibility of having his own beehive on her family\u2019s farm in Tullamore, which Ottaway absolutely loves visiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Executive head chef Dan Ottaway on the grounds of the Tulfarris Hotel &amp; Golf Resort in Blessington, Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,3479,5094,4746,5091,15156,5092,79454],"class_list":{"0":"post-137706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-king-charles-iii","14":"tag-life-magazine","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-andrew","17":"tag-prince-harry","18":"tag-queen-elizabeth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137706","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=137706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}