The series features professional chefs from various backgrounds, such as Dylan McGrath and Kevin Dundon, who each take on a new challenge.

[1][2] He regularly features on The Afternoon Show and both owns and manages Dunbrody Country House Hotel in County Wexford alongside his wife Catherine.

[1][2] Four of the fifty members of the boxing club prepare the food, including pigeon and tomato and poitín soup,[3][4] in the temporary kitchen.

[5] He is described as a "vegetarian icon" and "hero to non-meat eaters", beginning his career as a banker before quitting to form his own restaurant business.

[6] Thornton chooses to house his temporary restaurant at the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, having grown up in the area as a child.

[8] She has spent much of her adult life engaged in the process of cooking, but only recently set up her own business in Dublin, Il Primo.

[10] One week after filming he received his first Michelin star and achieved further fame when he was involved in a fight with fellow chef, Kevin Dundon, on the live television chat show Tubridy Tonight.