Kei Pilz (died 2001) was a Japanese Michelin star winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant Shiro in Ahakista, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
[1] Together with her husband Werner Pilz, a German, she was running the restaurant in her own living room.
[3] That turned out in a restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the period 1996–2001.
[5] Although living in Berlin at the time, Pilz bought the villa Woodlands in 1983.
She and her family moved to Ireland and renovated the villa before opening the restaurant.