[6][7] He was raised on a small, rural farm of around 25 acres, and credits his upbringing for making him "very unpretentious about good food... it instills respect, because you know the hard graft that goes into producing it".

[9] At age 17, Corrigan moved to the Netherlands to work at several hotels to gain further experience, including the Hilton in Amsterdam, where he recalls the Head Chef achieving a Michelin Star: "I remember him sending me out in the middle of the night to pick herbs without a torch.

"[10] After spending four years in the Netherlands,[11] Richard Corrigan moved to London in 1985 to work with Michel Lorrain, father of Chef Jean-Michel Lorain, at the Le Méridien hotel in Piccadilly.

[14] In 2005, he purchased Bentley's, where he had previously worked as Head Chef under owner Oscar Owide and carried out extensive renovations, returning the listed building to its former glory and realising the potential he had seen there years before.

[16] Additionally, he won the Great British Waste Menu special in 2010,[19][16] which aired on BBC 1 prime time to an audience of over 7 million viewers and culminated in a dinner at the House of Lords.