Rebecca Mahon from SETU Waterford has been crowned Knorr® Professional Student Chef of the Year 2026, delivering a menu that was as ambitious in concept as it was stunning in execution.
This year’s competition, hosted at TUS Moylish Campus in Limerick, brought together eight exceptional student chefs from colleges across the island of Ireland, each challenged to create a two-course menu inspired by the competition’s theme “Borderless Cuisine.”
A Menu Inspired by the World Cup — and the World
Rebecca’s winning menu drew its inspiration from the FIFA World Cup 2026, using football’s greatest stage as a lens through which to explore migration, culture, and the way food evolves when people, and their traditions, come…