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In a handful of Irish homes, chefs already cook for small groups of paying guests: one long table, a set menu, strangers who leave as friends. Drag the handle to see the same room, set for the evening.
Illustrative AI-generated visualisation. Not an actual home or event.
Most homes have a room that comes alive a few times a year: Christmas, a birthday, a long Sunday lunch. The rest of the time, the table waits.
Chefs, meanwhile, have the menus, the skills and often a following, but not always a room. Restaurants are expensive to open. Pop-up venues are hard to find and rarely feel like anywhere.
A home feels like somewhere. That’s what guests at a supper club are paying for: the food, and the feeling of being welcomed into a real place, by real people, for one evening only.
Same room, same table, same light, set for a chef and a table of guests for the night.
The images at the top of this page are AI-generated illustrations of a fictional home, made to show the idea. They don’t show a real supper club. Back to the comparison ↑
Home supper clubs are rare in Ireland, but they exist. Most begin the same way: a cook opens their own home to a small group of paying guests.
A chef and her co-host run a supper club two nights a month in the co-host’s own home: a six-course set menu, tickets bought in advance, and guests, many of whom come alone, seated together around one table.
Irish home supper clubs will be profiled here only with each club’s agreement. The next step, a chef cooking in a home that isn’t their own, is the idea this Discovery explores. PlotNua isn’t connected with any supper club.
Every home supper club is a mix of three things: a cook, a room and guests. Who brings which, and who sells the tickets, gives three different shapes.
You make your dining room, kitchen, conservatory or garden available for an evening. A professional chef plans the menu, cooks, serves and sells the tickets. Guests arrive at your door as diners, and leave having eaten somewhere they could never have booked.
You might host on the night, or simply hand over the table. You and the chef agree the arrangement between you: a fee for the room, a share of the evening, or simply a seat at your own table.
An idea to explore. We haven’t yet found a verified example of a chef running ticketed dinners in someone else’s home in Ireland, so treat this as a possibility, not a proven model.
A chef hosts paying guests at their own table. It’s how Irish home supper clubs begin.
You plan a ticketed evening (a harvest dinner, a fundraiser, a long table for the neighbourhood) and engage a chef to cook. It gives you the most control, and the most to organise: you’d be closer to running the event yourself.
Not a dinner party. Cooking for friends who don’t pay is something else entirely. This Discovery is about evenings where guests buy tickets.
A good evening is a partnership. Here’s how the borrowed room usually divides up.
PlotNua doesn’t arrange supper clubs or introduce chefs to homeowners. We’re exploring whether there’s enough interest on both sides to help them find each other.
The best supper club rooms aren’t the grandest. They’re the ones where a long table fits comfortably, the chef can move, and guests can come and go without squeezing past the cooker.
An open-plan kitchen and dining room, a conservatory or a garden room can all work well. Explore what you could build in your garden →
Selling tickets turns a dinner into something more formal. Being occasional or small doesn’t automatically put it outside the rules. These are the things to check, ideally before you set a date. We’re confirming several details with the relevant Irish authorities and will update this section.
In Ireland, a food business has to register before it starts, even when it operates from home.
Still being confirmed: whether the chef, the homeowner or both need to register, and whether each host home must be notified.
Guests need to be told, in writing, about allergens in what they’re served.
Still being confirmed: exactly what applies when tickets for a set menu are sold in advance.
Regularly using a house for paying guests can raise a planning question about the use of the property. Your local authority’s planning department can advise, and you can ask it formally whether something needs permission.
Still being confirmed with the planning authority.
When the public comes into a building, the person in control of it has fire-safety duties. Think about exits, alarms, candles and how many people the room can safely hold.
Still being confirmed with the fire authority.
Tell your home insurer before you host. Many home policies treat paying guests or business use differently. The chef should have their own public and product liability cover.
Still being confirmed with an insurance broker.
Selling alcohol needs a licence. Leaving drinks out of the ticket price doesn’t settle every licensing question: whether guests can bring their own, and whether anything can be charged for it, are still open. Take advice before offering drinks in any form.
Open question: professional advice needed.
Income from tickets, or a fee for your room, may be taxable. Revenue’s guidance, or an accountant, will tell you how.
Tenants need their landlord’s agreement; apartments may have management-company rules; check your mortgage terms.
None of this is meant to put you off. Home supper clubs run successfully in Ireland. It’s simply easier to set up properly from the start. This page is general information, not legal, tax or insurance advice. Last reviewed 27 October 2026.
For a chef, a beautiful room can be the difference between an idea and a sold-out night.
For a homeowner, it might mean a fee for the room, a share of the evening, or simply the best seat at a table you’d never have set yourself. Some hosts do it for the people they meet.
What works depends on the numbers at the table, the menu and the price, and on what you agree together. There’s no standard rate, and we won’t pretend there is. Talk it through openly, agree it in writing, and start with one evening.
PlotNua doesn’t publish earnings estimates for home supper clubs.
Last checked 27 October 2026. PlotNua is an independent discovery platform and does not recommend or endorse any business mentioned. The images on this page are AI-generated illustrations of a fictional home, not photographs of a real supper club.
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PlotNua doesn’t arrange introductions, take bookings or sell tickets, and can’t confirm regulatory approval or whether a supper club would be commercially viable. Nothing is booked by starting a conversation.
We’re exploring whether PlotNua could help homeowners and chefs find each other. Nothing is set up yet: we don’t arrange introductions, take bookings or sell tickets.
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