Awards

North West Fine Foods Junior Chef of the Year

We our proud to say our commis chef Michael Lambert came second in the North West Fine Foods Chef of the Year Award. Below is a note from Michael about his work history and on the recent competition.

'I started my career working as a chef at Linthwaite House Hotel then moved onto working at Blackburn Rovers FC for Nigel Howarth's Northcote off-site team. I then moved on to working in America for Camp Cusine which took me to New York in 2001 and Connecticut in 2002.

I am now at Purdey's at Langdale as a Chef de Partie and decided to enter the competition for North West Young Chef of the Year because it has been something I have always wanted to do before I got too old. I won the Cumbria heat and went on to the final in Liverpool where I ended up coming second place by three points. I chose the dishes I did because the ingredients were very local and in season plus they have bags of flavour. I like to keep it simple but tasty. I wanted to win the competition but I was very happy with second place, so I could say I am very happy for being the second best young chef in the northwest.'

To see recipes for the dishes Michael designed especially for the competition please click on the link below.

Michael's Dishes