St Patrick’s Day has become more like St Patrick’s Week in London, as the start of this year’s festivities began with the release of the 2025 Murphia List by Hot Dinners. The list, published in partnership with Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, is now in its 11th year of celebrating the best Irish talent in London’s food and drink scene. This year, it boasts 13 new entries on a list that totals 66 amazing people working in fields ranging from head chefs and pub owners to sommeliers and bakers. 

Given Londoners’ ongoing obsession with Guinness, it’s not surprising that four new names on the list work in the city’s top pubs and bars. They include Muireach Shankey from hot new Walthamstow pub The Raglan and Paul McKenna, responsible for the restaurants going into Guinness’s huge new Old Brewers Yard project in Covent Garden. Returning to the list is pub landlord Oisin Rogers, whose Soho pub The Devonshire sells more pints of the black stuff than anyone else in the UK.

With all the recent focus on Michelin’s lack of gender diversity, it’s good to see so many women represented in a list published so close to International Women’s Day. They make up a third of this year’s Murphia List, including our favourite pastry queen Niamh Larkin, Executive Pastry Chef, 45 Park Lane. Other new additions this year include Nobuku Okamura, wine manager at the hugely popular Farm Shop wine bar in Mayfair, and Christine Walsh and Christina Blevins, head chefs of Michelin-starred restaurants Chishuru and Row on 5, respectively.

Returning names include chef Patrick Powell, who’s just about to open a new restaurant in Shoreditch, One Club Row, with another name on the list, GM Niall Harte. Chef and restaurateur Anna Haugh of Myrtle has had a busy year opening her new Chelsea bar, The Wee Sister. This year, she’s joined on the list by her nephew Dan Haugh who co-owns and manages Myrtle. And of course, how could we forget Hugh Corcoran, chef and co-owner of The Yellow Bittern, the lunchtime-only restaurant which everyone in London is talking about?

The publication of the list was celebrated with a glamorous party at the five-star luxury hotel The Marylebone, run by the Irish-owned Doyle Collection. The who’s who of chefs, restaurateurs, and bar owners toasted the list with Five Farms cocktails, Boatyard Gin martinis, and drams of Bushmills while enjoying brilliant Irish beef, cheese, and oysters. 

The Murphia List 2025 

Chefs

• NEW – Christine Walsh – Head Chef, Chishuru
• NEW: Christina Blevins – Head Chef, Row on 5
• NEW: Brian Hennessy – Head Chef, Landmark London
• NEW: Hugh Corcoran – Chef and co-owner, The Yellow Bittern
• Luke Ahearne – Head Chef, Lita
• Kate O’Sullivan – Head Chef, Baudry Greene
• Paddy Maher – head chef, Pearly Queen
• Diarmuid Goodwin, Pop-up Chef
• Conor Gadd – chef/owner, Trullo
• Kenneth Culhane – Head Chef, The Dysart Petersham 
• Nick Fitzgerald – Chef Patron, Tacos Padre
• Fiona Hannon – Head Chef, Daffodil Mulligan 
• Anna Haugh – Chef Patron, Myrtle and The Wee Sister
• Colin Kelly – Head Chef. The Twenty Two
• Marguerite Keogh – Head Chef. The Five Fields
• Niamh Larkin – Executive Pastry Chef, 45 Park Lane
• Dave McCarthy – Head Chef, Scott’s
• Patrick Powell – Culinary Director, One Club Row and The Knave of Clubs
• Max Rocha – Chef Owner, Cafe Cecilia
• Clare Smyth MBE – Chef Patron, Core by Clare Smyth
• Richard Corrigan – Chef Patron of The Corrigan Collection

Restaurateurs

• NEW: Daniel Haugh – Co-owner and Manager, Myrtle
• NEW: Lynsey Coughlan – Co-founder Inis
• Eoghan Shankey – Co-owner Shankeys
• John Devitt – Co-owner, Koya
• Robin and Sarah Gill – Restaurateurs – Darby’s, Bottle & Rye, Rye on Water
• Brian Hannon – Restaurateur, Super 8 Restaurants
• John Nugent – CEO, Green & Fortune
• Ian Duignan and Jay Bradley – Co-owners of Irish Craft Whiskey and of Boha
• David Moore – Founding Director, Pied a Terre

Pubs & Bars

• NEW: Muireach Shankey – Co-owner The Raglan
• NEW: Nobuko Okamura – wine manager, Farm Shop Mayfair
• Oisin Rogers – Co-owner, The Devonshire
• Gearoid Devaney – Founder The Black Book, co-owner Cabotte
• Aaron Wall – Owner, Homeboy
• Ciaran Smith – Owner, The Bottle Cocktail Shop & Bar
• Colin Maher  – Bar Manager, JKS Pubs
• Nicola McDonagh – General Manager, The George

Cafés and bakeries

• NEW: Sarah Fox – baker N5 Kitchen
• Ciara O’Shea and Ken Nally – Owners, F. Mondays
• James Hennebry – Co-founder, Rossyln Coffee
• Dee Rettali – Owner, Fortitude Bakehouse

Front of house

• NEW: Jason Patrick Glynn – GM, Daffodil Mulligan
• Niall Harte – GM One Club Row
• Sean Devoren – Head Butler, The Dorchester
• Sean McDermott – Head Doorman, Scott’s
• Michael Lynch – head butler at Claridge’s
• Olivia McGowan – GM, Akoko
• Joe Warwick – The Public House Group

Behind the scenes

• NEW: Paul McKenna – MD, Red Branch Hospitality
• NEW: Tommy Cummins – Ops Manager, The Umbrella Project
• NEW: Sean Deane – Market Specialist, Bord Bia
• Richie Corrigan – MD Corrigan Collection
• Sinead Mallozzi – CEO, Sketch
• Fergal Lee – Director of Operations, The Wolseley Hospitality Group
• Molly Hutchinson – Founder – MIAM Management & Sarnie Party, Event Director of Meatopia
• Darren McHugh – Head of Operations, Tom Sellers’s HiStory Hospitality
• Jessica Garland Blake – Founder, Bash Studios
• Shayne Brady – designer Brady Williams
• Shane McHugh – Group Wine Buyer, Goodman Restaurants
• Fiona Leahy – Founder, Fiona Leahy Design
• Conor Daly – Ops Manager, JKS Pubs

Producers

• James Goggin – Founder, Barrel Aged Consultancy
• Steve Ryan – Food Photographer, Founder of Root + Bone and 40FT Brewery and Director at Acme Fire Cult
• Simon Lamont – Owner, Rocks Oysters and Events by Rocco

Rising star

• Isabella Condon – Junior Assistant Manager, Dinner by Heston

Read the full list along with biographies of all those featured on the Hot Dinners website.

All imagery courtesy of Hot Dinners.