Jamie Owens
Jamie is from Tullamore, Co.Offaly, he started cooking a very early age always having a passion and a flair for it. Jamie studied Culinary Arts in college, as part of his placement he worked in Adare Manor in Limerick.
There he had the honour of cooking personally for Bill Clinton, when he was on his presidential holiday to Ireland. By the age of 25 he opened his own very successful restaurant in Tullamore called “Jamie’s Restaurant”. He was awarded best chef in Offaly 2012. He then broadened his horizons and offered out sourced catering facilities, school catering for two secondary schools in Tullamore.
Jamie ran a cookery school for adults and cookery summer camps for children for many years which he just loves doing. The food industry was always his destiny, after 20 years of cooking he decided to run a bar. In June 2014 Jamie took on The Bus Bar in Tullamore, “It’s a lot different from the day to day pressures of a kitchen but I love it”. Yet, drawn back to the kitchen again, “I suppose it’s my first love”, he is now Chef Manager at Gurteen College since August 2016.