Selected as one of The Observers Food Books of the Year

Chef, rebel, activist, and all heart Jess Murphy cooks the way she lives: fearlessly, with fierce flavour and zero pretence. I love her. Yvette van Boven, cookbook author and journalist

The Kai Cookbook is the long-awaited collection of 100 of the restaurants best-loved dishes, from the legendary Kai fish fingers that they cant take off the menu to showstopper cakes from the irresistible daily line-up on the bar.

Kai is the Mori word for food, and Jess and Dave Murphy opened the door to their award-winning Galway restaurant in 2011 with a simple formula: high-quality produce, sourced locally and cooked intelligently. Whats in season will be on your plate.

Part cookbook, part love letter to Jesss adopted home in the West of Ireland, these recipes and recollections, all told in Jesss distinctive voice, will capture your heart, just like this little restaurant has done to all who have eaten there.