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 annual festival of gastronomy hosted by Northcote, the Lancashire hotel and restaurant, broke all records in its 20th edition which ended on Sunday with a spectacular six-course feast from host chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen and London-based guest chefs Monica Galetti of Mere and Monica Nieves of Sabor (pictured left to right). Northcote’s restaurant, private […]
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 […]
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen will oversee Stafford London’s Game Bird restaurant from September 14. She will continue her role as executive chef at the Michelin-starred Northcote in Langho, Lancashire, also in the collection. Goodwin-Allen has worked with the Stafford’s executive chef, Jozef Rogulski, to launch a new menu that best showcases British produce. Starters include gala […]
