The Northern Lights Dinner will celebrate the region’s culinary successes over the past two decades as well as Hospitality Action’s 180^th Birthday.

Starting with a cocktail and canapé reception, guests will get the opportunity to network with some of the biggest names in the industry, before enjoying a five course dinner cooked by ten of the region’s best chefs. The award winning chefs have been tasked to create a course that showcases how the industry has changed over the past 20 years.

Dishes include culinary delights such as Brill, coral crumb, cauliflower cheese, frazzled bacon and aged Lonk lamb, wrapped in seaweed infused butter puff pastry, baked cabbage trompette mushrooms

The chefs taking part are:

Starter: Shay Cooper, executive chef at The Goring & Mark Poynton, chef patron at Michelin-starred Alimentum

Fish course: Andrew Nutter, chef patron at Nutters Restaurant & Antony Shirley, executive chef at The Seafood Pub Company

Main course: Nigel Haworth, chef patron at luxury country hotel, Nortcote & Warrick Dodds, development chef at The Individual Restaurant Company

Cheese/savoury course: Steven Doherty, former head chef at Le Gavroche & Paul Askew, chef patron at The Art School

Dessert: Paul Heathcote MBE and chef patron of Heathcote & Steve Midgley, restaurant consultant

Penny Moore, chief executive of Hospitality Action said: “Cooking styles and techniques have changed so much over the past two decades. We’re hugely privileged to have ten amazing chefs celebrating these changes and showcasing why the region has had so many culinary successes during this time. It also seems very fitting to celebrate our cooking history as we look back over the past 180 years of Hospitality Action. Guests are in for an evening of incredible food and fun, while helping us to raise those all-important funds for the charity.”

Tickets are £125 per person or £1,200 for a table of ten and are expected to sell fast. They include cocktails and canapés, the five course dinner and matched wines. To get your tickets contact Astrid Wears-Taylor on 020 3004 5503 or at [email protected]. Or to find out more visit www.hospitalityaction.org.uk/events