Seafood cemented its prominence as the chefs’ favourite genre at this year’s Obsession festival in Lancashire, which ended last Sunday (5 February) – with mocktails emerging as the year’s surprise trend. Hosted annually at Northcote, the luxury gastronomic hotel near Blackburn in the Rubble Valley, the two-week-plus festival sold out this year, with 1,800 guests treated […]
Booking is now open for the 2023 edition of Obsession, the gastronomic festival hosted each year by Northcote hotel and restaurant near Blackburn in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. The event runs over 17 nights from January 20 to February 5, and features 20 leading chefs. Star guest chefs include Portugal’s Ricardo Costa of the Yeatman Gastronomic […]
Obsession, the midwinter festival of chefs hosted since 2001 by Lancashire boutique hotel and restaurant Northcote, at Langho near Blackburn, has announced an all-British Isles line-up of 15 guest chefs for next year’s event, which runs from January 21 to February 4. This year’s festival was cancelled due to the pandemic, which has also made […]
Ana Ros, newly crowned as top female chef by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants (see Harden’s report), will be cooking in London on June 14. Ros, chef-patron of Hisa Franko in Slovenia, heads the line-up at Chefstock, the annual festival hosted by Alyn Williams at his restaurant in Mayfair’s Westbury Hotel. Williams said this year’s Chefstock will […]
Distinguished chefs from as far away as China, Japan and Australia will line up alongside stars from Europe and closer to home at Obsession, the two-week gastro-festival hosted by Northcote restaurant and hotel in Lancashire early next year. Now in its 17th year, Obsession runs for 17 successive nights from Friday January 20. Tickets tend […]
Argentine star chef Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur in Menton on the French Riviera will be cooking at the four-day Barullo festival of Argentinian culture in Hoxton later this month. His four-course dinner will include Antarctic king crab and Patagonian lamb, accompanied by wines from 40 Argentinian producers introduced by a sommelier team under Paz Levinson. Colagreco […]
A “Free Taste of Balham” is the theme of this year’s Balham Food Festival, which runs for a week from this Sunday, September 25, so local restaurants and bars will be offering complimentary treats in addition to special festival offers and discounts. These include an aperitif cocktail at The Exhibit; a free pastry with coffee from Escape the […]
This year’s Balham Food Festival kicks off on Sunday September 25 with the all-day Balham Banquet in pedestrian Hildreth Street and Bedford Hill Place, followed by a week of special offers in the restaurants, bars and cafés of the surrounding area. Hildreth Street was transformed into a modern foodie hub as part of the £2million makeover […]
Established in 2001, Obsession is Northcote’s (Langho) annual homage to the finest food and wine, and features guest chefs travelling in from all over the world. Each chef takes over the Northcote kitchen for the night and challenges themselves to produce a unique Obsession Menu for the evening’s guests in a food festival that celebrates […]
Have you ever waited in line to get into a festival while groups of smug-looking carousers walked on by to the head of the queue? Well, here is your chance to be one of those people! Harden’s is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of Champagne tickets for the Friday evening […]
