The event is a way of ‘shining a light’ on the hotel whilst making a positive contribution to the local community. 

Brian Conroy, operations director at the Abbey House Hotel and Gardens, said: “Over the course of a year the Abbey House will welcome guests from across the UK and beyond. While our reach is national - and indeed international - we remain at heart a family owned business, which is very much a part of the local community.

“It has been a pleasure in previous years to welcome some of the country’s best chefs to the Abbey House Hotel and Gardens, and we are very much looking forward to sharing our kitchens once again with some incredible talent.”

The event will raise money for a foundation set up in memory of Ray Armstrong. He established Lake Districts Farmers in the years before his death, which supplies the ‘finest cuts of meat’ to the country’s top chefs and restaurants. 

The michelin-starred chefs include Clare Smyth and Brett Graham. Their restaurants were name first and second in a recent UK Top 100, as voted for by users of OpenTable. Alongside them will be chef Phil Campbell and the team behind Beast- the London-based steak restaurant. 

On 7 February the Beast team will prepare four courses inspired by their mantra of creating food, which is the epitome of land and sea on plate. 

Campbell stated Lake District Farmers “support us and its right that we support them with what they are trying to achieve. What guests can look forward to this weekend is the culmination of a ten-year relationship between myself and Dan Austin from Lake District Farmers. 

“We will be serving Nigerian prawns which weigh in at around 250 grams per prawn; that’s quite a statement. Beef will form a massive part of what we are doing too.”

On 8 February Smyth and Graham joined by David Simms, the culinary director of RA Group who previously worked with the Roux family and Simon Rogan. Between them, the trio and their kitchen teams will create a six-course meal for those attending the event. 

The four-star Abbey House Hotel has 14 acres of gardens and woodlands in South Cumbria, near the Lake District.