Northern Restaurant & Bar 2022, sponsored by Uber Eats, will be Manchester first major hospitality show of the year as it returns to Manchester Central on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th March.
The free to enter, trade-only event is open to anyone who works in the hospitality industry and will bring together operators and suppliers, promoting ideas and inspiration, representing and leading the sector in the North.
The show is the perfect opportunity for hospitality professionals to catch up with colleagues old and new, meet 300 suppliers for everything their business needs, be inspired by live food & drink demos, and be part of the whole industry coming together at NRB22.
There will be a Chef Live stage, sponsored by one stop hospitality platform Lightspeed, where, this year, seven Michelin starred chefs, including two of the newest additions to the guide, will cook alongside the best emerging talent. Demonstrating signature dishes and ground-breaking techniques, Chef Live is designed to inspire an audience of ambitious Northern chefs, restaurateurs, and operators, to take innovative ideas back to their own kitchens.
Three new Northern restaurants gained Michelin stars in the most recent guide, and two of those chefs, Cal Byerley from Pine, in Northumberland, and Nathan Cornwell from The Barn at Moor Hall in Lancashire, will be cooking in their first industry appearances since the awards were announced. Joining them in the theatre will be some of the region’s biggest names, known for their award-winning restaurants and their TV appearances, Lisa Goodwin-Allen from Northcote, Lancashire, and Tommy Banks from The Black Swan at Oldstead in North Yorkshire. The line-up also includes Paul Leonard from Forest Side in Cumbria, and Alex Nietosvuori from Hjem in Northumbria – bringing the number of Michelin starred chefs to seven.
Also cooking Chef Live stage will be Ellis Barrie of Lerpwl on Liverpool’s Albert Dock and Great British Menu fame, and Nina Matsunaga from the award-winning Black Bull gastropub in Sedburgh. Exose Grant, who excelled on Masterchef The Professionals 2019, and has recently taken over the kitchen at BLVD, Manchester, completes the line up along with Alysia Vasey, better known as The Yorkshire Forager and regular on James Martin Saturday Kitchen.
See the full Chef Live Timetable HEREThom Hetherington, CEO of NRB, said, “This year we had an unprecedented breadth and depth of cheffing talent to choose from, following an incredible year of culinary acclaim and success for the North. The region has claimed the first three star restaurant outside of the South East in the entire 49 year history of the UK Michelin Guide, and this comes after a year when the National Restaurant Awards have declared four of the top five UK restaurants are in the North, and the Top 50 Gastropubs list put four of the top five gastropubs in the North.”
“All of this success, which is replicated across the region’s bars, pubs, hotels and cafes, has been achieved in the teeth of the pandemic, but I honestly think the hospitality industry in the region is only getting started, and will undoubtably hit greater heights from here” continued Thom. “We’re so proud of how the leading lights of the industry have come together for NRB; it is the perfect time to celebrate these achievements, and to help shape the sector for the next twelve months.”
Northern Restaurant and Bar will also host industry panels, Kuits NRB top 50 awards, and 60 demos in five theatres including Drinks Live and the Market Kitchen Theatre which will be hosted by Taste of Manchester’s editor Deanna Thomas who will be chatting to producers and chefs including Jules Goddard from Plucky Pickle, Chris Nuttall from Black Leaf, Richard Hyman from Manchester Smokehouse and Craig Rutherford from Habas.
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