A Mullingar chef is to battle it out in the national finals of the Silver Hill National Duck Dish Competition.
Eoin O’Neill of the Mullingar Park Hotel, Dublin Road, Mullingar has been named as one of 12 professional chefs from around the country who will compete for the winner’s title in the final, which takes place in the Southern Regional College of Newry campus on March 4.
The 12 finalists will go through to the final ‘cook off’, where each chef will be given two hours to prepare, cook, and present two portions of a Silver Hill Duck starter, and two portions of a Silver Hill Duck main course, using a 2.5kg oven ready Silver Hill Duck.
Each dish will be judged by a panel comprising renowned chef and restaurateur, Derry Clarke of L’Ecrivain; head chef at Lough Erne Golf Resort in Co Fermanagh, Noel McMeel; and Lyla Steele of Silver Hill Foods.
The winning chef will get the chance to oversee their winning dishes being prepared at a dinner for the Irish Food Writer’s Guild later in the year. In addition, the winner will receive a week’s work experience at the world renowned Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire.
